Aug 15
I want to blog more about local foodie places in and around Coventry and the local area. I'm currently collecting some links to go somewhere in my sidebar, so look out for that in the near future!Recently I decided that I want to try shopping at some (read full article)
berryfields, coventry, farm shop, Meat, pork pie, pork., vegetables
Aug 02
So, my tomato plants haven't been doing too well. I think they've come down with a case of 'blossom end rot' and possibly another kind of rot as well (there seem to be several associated with tomato plants). I think it's because our watering of them (read full article)
Cottage Pie, English, gardening, hairy bikers, Jane Grigson, potato, tomatoes, vegetables
Aug 01
I attended the above course about a week and a half ago now run by Tom of Loaf and Steve Rossiter of Rossiters Butchers in Birmingham. I wanted to go on the course because being able to butcher a chicken seems like such a great skill to have, not to (read full article)
butchers, butchery, Chicken
Jul 21
I have mentioned on this blog before that I am half Maltese and I love eating and cooking Maltese food. I can cook a few things my mum has shown me and a few things from a book we got when we holidayed in Malta, but really I think my repertoire when (read full article)
broad beans, kusksu, maltese, maltese spring soup, Pasta, peas, Soup, vegetables
Jul 11
The last couple of weeks I've been practising creating lovely, lovely crackling on different cuts of pork; last week was roast pork belly with coriander and fennel seasoning from my River Cottage Everyday cookbook and this week I had a go at a pork l (read full article)
apple, apple sauce, crackling, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, nigel slater, pork., river cottage