Food and Drink Archives |Quality Luxury Leather Gifts Handmade England

Vegetables | Why You Should Be Growing Your Own

Everybody, everywhere, eats vegetables, and if you don’t, you should. If brussel sprouts and green beans don’t haunt you from your childhood then there is something wrong. Back then, the only thing that got you through the many mouthfuls of greens was the...

Edible flowers: 15 beautiful blooms that really are good enough to eat

Food and Drink, Gardens

There are dozens of uses for edible flowers – here are some particularly pretty ones to try. Borage (Borago officinalis) Use fresh in salad, with meat and fish dishes or in drinks Pansies (Viola tricolor and hybrids) As well as fresh in salad, use to decorate...

Bloomin’ lovely activities inspired by the Chelsea Flower Show

Country Life, Food and Drink, Gardens

Five floral treats taking place in London this summer. ALAIN DUCASSE’S ‘LUNCH FLOWER MENU’ AT THE DORCHESTER Highlights of the menu include playful dishes such as the ‘Flowering vegetable garden, fresh herb condiment’, ‘Watercress velouté, Lily pad ‘our way’, ‘Fillet...

Carrot, blood-orange and hazelnut cake with cream-cheese frosting

Cake recipes, Food and Drink, Recipes, Summer recipes

Carrot cake, but not as you know it. This is carrot cake, but not as you know it – the delicious, blood-orange soaked sultanas add such flavour to the already moist sponge, elevating the humble carrot to something rather special. Carrot, blood-orange and hazelnut cake...

Crisp-and-hot chicken salad with sesame

Food and Drink, Recipes, Spring recipes, Summer recipes

Some like it hot: succulent leg meat with a crisp skin sings with Asian flavours such as sesame, chilli and soy.There is a dark sesame paste one can find in Asian grocers that is particularly good, here. Otherwise, use tahini paste. Crisp-and-hot chicken salad with...

Cold-chicken salad with tarragon-cream dressing and pea shoots