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Food Photography Workshop

October 24, 2009

Yesterday I travelled down to London to the Scandinavian Kitchen to a photography workshop run by Chris Windsor and organised by Helen from a Forkful of Spaghetti. Arranging for someone to pick up George from school was the main bit of planning that I had to do, along with charging camera batteries and packing a […]

Spooky Stuff

October 21, 2009

Here is a little early Halloweenish post for you… Last Friday was our annual Ambergate School Spooky Disco. It was a bit earlier than normal, it is usually closer to Halloween, but double bookings and half term got in the way. The Friends of Ambergate Team organise it as a social event for all the […]

Bagels Schmagels

October 15, 2009

George is off poorly today and we are stuck in the house, so it seemed a good day to post about hot chewy bagels. I adapted this recipe from a BBC one. It’s a good thing to make on a rainy afternoon and makes you feel very accomplished when they come out of the oven. […]

Two Experiments and a Competition

October 7, 2009

I made a fairly ordinary meal last night of sausage and mash, but had a hankering to experiment a bit on the side. I had seen a photograph on Foodgawker of Hasselback potatoes on a blog called Seasaltwithfood and wanted to try them. So in addition to a mountain of fluffy mashed potato (I always […]

Fresh from the Oven – Curry Stuffed Buns

September 28, 2009

I have recently joined a group called ‘Fresh From the Oven’ which is a monthly bread baking group. In essence the group has a monthly challenge to all bake their version of a given bready recipe. This months challenge was curry stuffed buns. I made them really early in the month and have been desperate to post this […]

Cupcakes again!

September 27, 2009

We have had another busy Weekend of enjoyable tasks. I’ve been baking cakes and Ed has been building a deck, whilst George has been playing with friends and helping out whenever he fancies, so everyone is happy. Our Friends Katie and Adam have 2 lovely little twin girls Evie and Nell, and a boy called […]

Chutney 2009

September 16, 2009

2008’s Courgette Chutney, made by Ed, was a resounding success. We ate plenty of it ourselves and also gave some to friends and all agreed it was really quite good. A good dollop with cheese on toast or with crusty bread and ham was always welcome. We even ran out before Summer, so this year […]

Monday is Risotto Night

September 7, 2009

As you may have read from earlier post, we often have risotto on a Monday. If there is meat left from the Sunday roast I will concoct a pie or some sort of crispy meat dish, but this Weekend was a bit topsy turvy and we had our Sunday Roast on Friday. The leftover roast chicken […]

Frosted Cup Cakes

August 27, 2009

Here are some tangy orange and lemon cupcakes. The frosted topping has Philadelphia Cream Cheese with a syrup of super reduced orange and lemon juice whisked in. I love it when a recipe works out at just the right quantity to fill a dozen good deep muffin cases. Ernie, our Border Terrier is always very interested when I […]

New Urban Farmer Recipes

August 25, 2009

Here is a delicious lunch that I had this week. It is a recipe from Celia Brooks Brown’s upcoming book The New Urban Farmer. They are Pea and Feta egg cups that include fragrant fresh mint out of the garden. They are really quick and satisfying to make as they puff up in a muffin tray in minutes. They […]

Absence makes the garden grow faster

August 21, 2009

We got back from 5 days away on Monday and had a great time camping in Snowdonia. I always love getting home though, not only do I miss home itself, but it’s always good to see what the garden has been up to. When we got back from our holiday last year we were surprised to find that […]

Courgette Flowers

August 12, 2009

I’ve got so much to do today as we are off camping in North Wales, so I shouldn’t really be posting about stuffing courgettes. That said our very cute Border Terrier Ernie is snuggled on my lap and tea is mashing in the pot so I have a few moments to spare before the chores begin. Our friends […]

Alliums for the chop

August 10, 2009

Finally we have had a Weekend with 2 days of sunshine. It’s been the first chance to get the onions, garlic and shallots out of the ground and allow them to dry in the sun rather than dragging muddy bulbs into the kitchen. I was also spurred into action on reading the MTP Blog. I […]

Weekend Breakfast

August 8, 2009

As a rule, breakfast with the Sutton’s is cereal or toast. At the Weekend all bets are off. I was all for the not-very-summery choice of porridge this morning. The Guernsey cream in the fridge was calling to me and asking to be poured on hot porridge with brown sugar. George’s request won the day […]

Courgette Soup

August 5, 2009

Ian Fischer, who we follow on Twitter and who also has a lovely vegetarian Blog here asked about our version of courgette soup. Neither Ed nor I can believe that not only have we never photographed it but we have never even got around to photographing our courgettes growing, post-harvest or in Ed’s very successful courgette […]

Brownies and more

August 2, 2009

George requested a chocolatey cake, so I made some triple choc brownies. These are based on Jamie Oliver’s ’15’ recipe and are very gooey, rich and good as a dessert. Just to balance it out I made some no knead bread and a marmalade tea loaf too. That’s us set up with baked goods for […]

Camp Sutton

July 29, 2009

We had a lovely Weekend in the Peak District with family Sutton. Although there was the inevitable rain we also lucked out with some brief sunny spells for a walk and Barbecue. The barbecue goodies were all sourced from Uncle Jerry’s, otherwise known as Jerry Howarth’s Butchers in Belper and hastily prepared and marinated on a wobbly camping […]

Blighty Potatoes

July 23, 2009

Our whole, quite large, potato crop seems to have been struck down with the blight. I am not quite sure why but talking about it makes me want to talk like a pirate, which is a bit odd. A week or two ago we noticed that the leaves were starting to look a bit ropey, […]

Risotto

July 20, 2009

Taking pictures of food in our house is quite difficult. As soon as it is ready everyone wants to eat! I’m torn every time as to whether I should lose precious moments to put the fork down and pick the camera up. This is our ever popular staple ‘Monday night not been shopping yet’ meal. It’s so much more […]