What Food Is In Season In June?
This month the fashionable social events continue with horse racing on Derby Day and at Royal Ascot (which means picnics) and tennis at Wimb...
June
Fabulous Fantastical Frisée Salad
May and June are the months for frisée – but this salad works just as well with mixed leaves – and because of the apple it goes well with po...
How To Cook Baby Turnips, A Historical Fact, A Random Thought, And Three Ideas
"It augmentith the seed of man and provoketh carnel lust"
-Sir Thomas Elliot on turnips, 1539
Normal turnips, in my view, really...
July
Music To Cook To In July
Music to cook to in July is all about gardens, and sunshine, and being outside.To get you in the mood you could listen to Beethoven's sy...
How To Make Raspberry Vinegar
"Here is a pleasant 'refresher', specially suitable for the young after lawn tennis or sports on hot days, but acceptable also to their elde...
Recipes and menus for July
"The colour of July is gold. Gold now are the barley fields which cover much of Norfolk. Gold in the sheltered eyes of hares, the clambering...
August
Kalbsbratwurst – the famous veal sausage from St Gallen
Well, here I am in Switzerland, on 1 August, Swiss National Day, and a friend has been kind enough to donate some genuine Kalbsbratwurst to ...
Hot and Cold Passionate Salad of Cucumber, Artichokes and Asparagus
I got the idea for cooking the cucumber and coating it in a yoghurt and mayonnaise sauce from Lesley Blanch’s classic, Round the World in Ei...
Toffee-topped popular plum upside-down cake
A friend has a glut of plums, and I am only too delighted to help her out. This is one of the things I do with them, and it’s always popular...