There’s just time to make one more batch of elderflower cordial and champagne, with their inimitable fragrance of English summer – floral, yet also a little wild and very slightly musty. Nothing drinkable is more evocative of our hedgerows and … [Read more...]
A Midsummer Night’s Eve potion
There is something so magical about Midsummer Night’s Eve that it calls for a potion -- something drawn from Shakespeare's green world to induce dreams of love and pagan revelry, safely resolved with all the right embraces after a dalliance with … [Read more...]
Bullet ice cream and other strawberry tales
The most enchanting strawberries I have ever tasted were Norwegian berries, bought from the grower in a gravel-strewn lay-by on a winding road along Sognefjord on Norway’s west coast. They were pale pink and I was suspicious of their anaemic pallor, … [Read more...]
Roast potato, chicken and bacon salad
This satisfying main course salad is a celebration of the first cut-and-come-again lettuces from the garden and the noble remains of a good roast chicken. It is given extra appeal with some crisp bacon and good tomatoes. It is also a homage to … [Read more...]
Syttende Mai
Norwegians everywhere on this 17th day of May are celebrating “Syttende Mai” – Norway’s National Day of independence, the day in 1814 when its constitution as an independent nation was signed after over 400 years of Danish rule, following Denmark’s … [Read more...]
Asparagus now!
It’s here! I returned from a week away to find my asparagus bed has leapt to attention and is at risk of growing into trees before I’ve had a harvest. It really is one of the “hurry up and wait” crops: you drum your fingers for weeks in impatience, … [Read more...]
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