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Claudia Roden’s orange flan (dairy free)

January 30, 2020 laura Leave a Comment

Oh my. I have a weakness for custards ... and there are few things more exquisite than a really good orange in its season....  So I was intrigued by Claudia Roden's recipe for a baked custard -- a flan -- made with no milk or cream: just eggs, a … [Read more...]

Citrus, Eggs, Ingredients, Oranges, Posts, Recipes, Seasonal, Sweet, Winter Ballymaloe recipes, Claudia Roden, custard desserts, easy recipes, fruit desserts, vegetarian

A Maytime menu to cook together: asparagus and pea ravioli, and coffee crème caramel

May 1, 2017 laura Leave a Comment

May: the landscape is never so alive with growth as it is now, life pushing ahead, making more of itself. It renews us too: our love for life and each other, our desire to connect with all this radiance.  A friend was telling me recently as we … [Read more...]

Articles, Asparagus, Cheese, Eggs, Ingredients, Lemon, Mint, Parmesan, Peas, Ricotta, Savory, Seasonal, Spring, Sweet custard desserts, family recipes, Italian recipes, pasta recipes, vegetarian recipes

Fresh coconut cake and cream pie, oh my…

April 14, 2017 laura 2 Comments

It's April, the cherry blossom and lilac are in glorious bloom, and it's Easter week.  In our house this means it's time to make fresh coconut cake, which for idiosyncratic reasons I always associate with this time of year.  There's something about … [Read more...]

Coconut, Cream, Eggs, Ingredients, Recipes, Sweet American classic recipes, cake recipes, custard desserts, Easter recipes, pie recipes

A Valentine’s menu, and musings on love’s labours

February 12, 2016 laura Leave a Comment

We are all in search of easy ways to eat well, but when I see recipes that claim to be ‘effortless’, I raise my eyebrows. Feeding ourselves is a basic need that requires effort, even when it’s pleasurable, creative and appreciated. Preparing a … [Read more...]

Anchovy, Articles, Capers, Chocolate, Eggs, Fennel, Fish, Grapefruit, Hake, Ingredients, Lettuces and salad leaves, Olives, Parsley, Peppers, Places, Posts, Potato, Recipes, Savory, Sweet, Tomatoes custard desserts, food and love, hake as an alternative to cod, sustainable fish, tapenade, Valentine menus

Primula vulgaris: a common treasure

April 2, 2015 laura 2 Comments

My English country garden is more abundant with the native, pale yellow primrose this year than I have ever known it.  Suddenly the insignificant volunteer seedlings I half-remember seeing in unpromising places have plumped into blooming clumps that … [Read more...]

Edible flowers, Eggs, Ingredients, Places, Posts, Recipes, Seasonal, Spring, Sweet Culpeper, custard desserts, food history, herbalists, John Gerard, Maud Grieve, Pliny, primrose pottage

What you will find here

Crumbs on the Table  is a food blog with tested recipes, and stories about food.  I aim to share the best recipes I know, and something of their context: the places they come from, … More

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Featured recipes

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Tuscan-style grape and walnut harvest bread

South African malva pudding with coconut and rum

Citrus jelly with passionfruit

Sweet potato quesadillas

Rhubarb sponge crumble

Asparagus and pea ravioli

Coffee crème caramel 

Apricot pie

Garlic soufflé

Fish with grilled cucumber

Baked gooseberry caramel pudding

Chocolate rose cake

Sicilian vanilla gelato

Celery, stilton and sage tart

Fresh coconut cake and cream pie

Duck legs braised with beans and herbs

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Chez Panisse almond tart

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Chocolate pots de crème

Peach and prosciutto panzanella

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Roast potato, chicken and bacon salad

Norwegian waffles

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I share with you here some of the cookbooks, blogs, food memoirs, and other culinary writings I have found most delicious, intriguing, and helpful over the years.  This … More

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