A simple and easy recipe Raspberry Fool to help use up a glut of raspberries in my garden. The Autumn Raspberries have produced an abundance of fruit this year and are still going. Simple Raspberry Fool Recipe This recipe is taken from The Dairy Book of Home Cooking, one of my go to cook books. …
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Lemon Madeira Cake with Raspberries Recipe
This Lemon Madeira cake with raspberries turned out to be the perfect choice for a travelling birthday cake. It needed to make it safely from Shropshire to South Devon during the recent heatwave we experienced. I felt a standard sandwich cake with butter cream would not fair well in the heat. I tweaked a standard …
The garden in June
Thought I would share with you a mobile blog post of what is happening with the plants in my garden today. Off to a good start the sun is out! First up is a photo of a rather …
Book Review – Soil Mates Companion Planting
Handy sized book A review of Soil Mates by Sara Alway published by Quirk books. This is not your average gardening book. It is not a large like most gardening books can be, so there is no need to clear your lap to read it. There are no glossy pages full of perfectly styled vegetable …
Vegetable Garden Planner 2013
Chitting time I’ve been busy scribbling down the planting I have planned for my vegetable garden this year. That is if I can ever get into it with the never ending snow or rain that seems to be falling from the sky of late. Whats in? – this year for the first time I will …
Spring Garden Tour – Part 1
Copper Beech dominates the view There is no doubting that we have had plenty of rain for weeks now. The good news – the garden is pleased! Although the Daffodils have now faded, its seen an explosion of life for the shrubs, flowers and trees in the garden. So I thought it was about time …
Easy Plum Jam Recipe using my own fruit
Fresh plums from the garden and a very Easy Plum Jam recipe. Its been another good year for fruit in the garden, Blueberries, Strawberries, Raspberries, Plums and Apples have all done well. I guess the only exception being the Gooseberry bush which produced just the one lonesome Gooseberry! This week has been a busy week …