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'Our House' Blackberry Gin
Unbelievable. I have searched high and low for my recipe and can’t find it anywhere. It’s not that I have a particularly large or disorganised kitchen but I know that it was on a sheet of paper somewhere and it appears to have disappeared. Anyway, here it is – from memory. If I have left anything out then be sure to let me know.
Blackberry gin it is.
I was originally given this recipe form a neighbour and this time I have not fiddled with it. Given the number of ingredients there is not really that much to fiddle with. We don’t actually drink it as a liqueur (we have the sloe gin for that) but instead pour it over ice cream or drizzle it over other desserts. Always goes down well when we have people over to dinner. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple and blackberry crumble
I am not a great one for puddings but with three boys in the house, I am very much outnumbered. Most of the puddings I make are simple and are made to accompany Sunday lunch. Furthermore, most of our puddings are really straightforward and usually involve fruit that is either from our garden, a neighbour’s garden or found during a walk with the dog. Today we had an apple and blackberry crumble. We have a variety of preferred accompaniments, such as ice cream or double cream. Today it was custard. Lots of it. Read the rest of this entry »
wild cherries
I am not a chef and will never claim to be anything else but a lover of simple home cooking. In my life BC (before children) I had no interest whatsoever in cooking. I rarely had little else other than a good white wine and some cheese in the fridge. And milk for tea. I ate out most of the time, especially when I lived and worked in central London and when I did have to cook for myself, cheese on toast was just about it. And even then it was cream cheese. No wonder I complained of having no energy all of the time!
My passion for cooking has developed over the years but primarily as a result of two events. First of all I was bought a copy of Nigel Slater’s Real Cooking. It certainly transformed my thinking about cooking – it suddenly all seemed so easy! Read the rest of this entry
This rural wife, this rural life 
