Now that I have found great ways to preserve tomatoes that suit our family preferences ( I didn't say faddiness! ) I grow as many as possible. All kinds, all colours, all in a small plastic greenhouse and some outside mixed in with the flowers. And some in hanging baskets. And tall tins that...
"If you learn, teach If you get, give" - Maya Angelou My hero, Maya Angelou. If I can't express what I feel I usually find that she has done it for me already, beautifully and kindly. There is so much that I feel about the current imbalances in our lives around the World -...
So, You Are Thinking of Pressure Canning? There are so many pressures (no pun intended) on us in modern life - family life, working life, money, time, and much more. There are many layers to all of these aspects - family life doesn't just mean children and spouse but aging parents who may need...
You Are Your Best Thing Toni Morrison Your homemade preserves are special - unique in fact. Unlike anyone else's. With homemade preserves more comes out of the jar than goes in by way of ingredients. If you eat it yourself you have memories - a walk collecting wild blackberries, your friend gifting you a...
For every minute spent organising an hour is earned - Benjamin Franklin Meal Planning If you are always chasing your tail with yet another meal that has to appear only for it to be dispatched either in several thankless seconds or rejected with disdain - you need help! Make some time to go through...
I guess the title of this blog means nothing to people under a certain age! The old acting advice at school for the crowd scenes - just mutter rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb which we tried to do but then got the giggles. Its a little bit early for the first rhubarb in my part of...
My Pantry Notebook - has changed my life. Previously I have tried to use planners, diaries - scraps of paper, memory, but nothing was really, truly fit for purpose. I designed My Pantry Notebook to be just that. Mine. Absolutely what I wanted it to be but so flexible that it can be whatever...
It is hard, in these artificially sugared days of over-sweetened processed food, to relate to how our most-loved staples have come about. Take the modern marmalade for instance. The darling of the post-Christmas articles on the arrival of the marmalade season headed up by 'Liz Hurley has made some marmalade' do next to nothing...
