I am truly a salad nut. I could eat salad seven nights a week and never tire of it . . . ever. One of my favourite salad leaves to use, are...

It sure has been hot here this past week . . . I think this is what they call the dog days of August. You know what I mean . . . hot and st...

I've always found recipes, cooking and food very interesting. I've been collecting recipes since I was 7 or 8 and have always found...

I think by now you all know that plums hold a very special place in my affections. They, quite simply are my favourite fruit, but only when ...

I have to confess . . . I didn't eat a lot of lamb before I moved over here to the UK. My sole experience of eating lamb had been when ...

Since I arrived in the UK, some 9 years ago now, I have never seen anything but a brown egg. Back home we always paid more for brown eggs, ...

Early this spring a good friend of ours gave us some tomato plants. She said that she had far more than she needed and wanted to give them ...

  Well, it's happened. I am now officially another year older than I was yesterday. How did that happen. I supposed it doesn't ...

The cottage we live in lies in the beautiful English countryside atop a hillside in rural Kent. We are almost totally surrounded by fruit...