A SLICE OF CAKE

As time goes by we have become more adept at using up what we have in stock rather than shop for more food.  There are several reasons for t...

This was a very tasty soup. At this time of year I have a clear out of our food cupboards.  At the back of a cupboard I found this bag of dr...

This was one of the recipes in Mary Berry's Christmas programme last year.  It looked so good that we bought extra pigs in blankets in o...

Our tomato harvest has been less than normal this year, as we only planted four plants, but we are still not keeping up with the supply.  So...

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

With Nick away for a week I was looking forward to catching up with spring cleaning and other jobs.  Unfortunately the weather had other ide...

In France there is a chain of frozen food shops called Picard.  Their range of foods goes from basic stuff, like peas and green beans, throu...

We harvested the last of the tomatoes the other day, dug up the plants and dispatched them to the compost heap.  All but one of the tomatoes...

   The weather here in the middle of France has been rather English this summer.  However, it's still been warm enough for us to get a b...

When we recently invited some friends round for a bbq the weather decided to turn decidedly English - cool and showery. I was planning to se...

I saw Raymond Blanc make this version of the classic ratatouille in his TV series "Simply Raymond" a few years ago.  It's not ...

This is an adaptation of a recipe in one of my slimming club cook books.  Now that we're back in France my membership has officially lap...

We did phenomenally well for tomatoes last year.  We planted a few tomato plants at the top of the garden in May, watered them a couple...