A SLICE OF CAKE

Our tomatoes have started to ripen but although they taste delicious they would not win any beauty contest!  They are a bit "noggly...

Every year our apples fall from the tree too soon, heaps of them.  Most are unusable due to insect damage and end up in the compost but most...

Red cabbage and carrot slaw. Coleslaw is a great accompaniment for a bbq, or with cold meats or quiche, but I sometimes find shop bought col...

We are having a more typical summer here in the middle of France so plenty of barbecues.  Much as I love a well cooked Toulouse sausage, the...

The nectarine version. The recipe for this popped up in my FB feed and comes from one of Nancy Birtwhistle's books, the one about garden...

For a friend's birthday I gave her a pretty tin of eight home made lemon drizzle buns.  She and her husband are not regular consumers of...

This gorgeous old fashioned dessert has a wow factor well beyond its simplicity. The recipe has its origins in a book by Simon Hopkinson cal...