by Richard | Feb 8, 2025 | Blog, Cooking, Glamping, Homemade, Recipe
Stun your partner or guests with your own homemade Mozzarella to lift your pizza to new levels. Armed with a new cheese-making book i will be trying out recipes and techniques over the coming months to perfect and hone simple recipes to dazzle guests and wow the...
by Richard | Nov 1, 2023 | autumn, Blog, Cooking, Homemade, Recipe
Pumpkin & Butternut Squash Soup Don’t throw away your Halloween pumpkin, instead follow this simple recipe to make a warming and healthy soup. Rich in Beta-carotene which is converted to Vitamin A in the body. Pumpkin, butternut squash and sweet potatoes...
by Richard | Apr 6, 2023 | Baking, Cooking, Homemade, Recipe, Spring
Hot Cross Buns Thomas Rocliffe, a 14th-century monk, is widely credited as making the very first hot cross or Alban buns in 1361. A sweet, fruity bake bearing a cross on top, the buns were given to the local poor on Good Friday. This Easter treat so pleased the...
by Richard | Mar 25, 2023 | Baking, Blog, Cooking, Foraging, Homemade, Nature, Recipe, Spring
Wild Garlic / Ramsoms / Ransoms / Somerset’s ‘Onion Stinkers’ / stink bombs or stinking nannies are widely available to forage throughout the British Isles particularly in the Westcountry where it grows in abundance in woodland & hedgerows. Often...
by Richard | Oct 30, 2022 | autumn, Cooking, Homemade, Recipe
Follow this Classic All-American recipe to save wasting your Jacko lantern this year. It takes 20 minutes to prepare, and baking takes 40-50 minutes, Serves 8-10. 750g Pumpkin / Squash 350g shortcrust pastry 140g Caster Sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp Fresh Nutmeg 1 tsp...
by Richard | Apr 3, 2022 | Baking, Blog, Cooking, Homemade, Recipe
Try Bannock Cross Buns this Easter With Easter approaching I thought i would try an alternative to traditional hot cross buns. Sourdough Selkirk Bannock Buns. Thomas Rocliffe, a 14th-century monk, is widely credited as making the very first hot cross or Alban bun in...
