It is mid October and given the climate we had this year in the UK, this means that vegetable growers are harvesting tomatoes right now, hurrah!
If you have a glut of tomatoes, you can a) buy the tomato book and get recipes to make chutneys, salsas and ketchups or b) work with them as they [...]
A simple and delicious recipe for using some of the corn glut that some might get at this time of year. If you have lots of corn you might want to consider making this cake and selling it!
An antidote to a courgette/zucchini glut!
This is a simple salad which makes the most of fresh ingredients, the use of papaya seeds as part of the dressing is genius, because papaya seeds have got a peppery taste and they are crunchy too. I don’t know whose idea it was to use papaya seeds in a dressing, I saw this in [...]
They have Salsa Verde in Italy, but in Mexico we also have our very own and it is fantastic, nothing to do with with finely chopping lots of herbs -I love the Italian one, but it is 'verde' because it contains tomatillos, these fruits related to Cape Gooseberries grow in Mexico and we eat [...]
It is that ime of the year again, the one where evenings get longer and when spooky ghosts will knock on our doors. In the area where we live, it seems that the number of ghosts grow exponentially each year, we started with 10 and now there seem to be hundreds of kids knocking for tricks or [...]
My good friend Gicela who is a wonderful Mexican cook who lives near Bristol, contacted me recently asking me to get her some sugar cane sticks in London for her ‘ponche’ that she plans to make for her ‘posada’ party in the West Country….
… that made me think! I have been so very [...]
… it is day of the dead! Yesterday we had all the Hallowe-en situation and there must have been about 200 kids in our street asking for trick or treat!
… today things are different, it is Day of the Dead and in Mexico, this means many, many things. This is a solemn celebration that contains [...]
… September is upon us, and in an ideal world this is harvest time for those of us who live in the northern hemisphere. For those of us who live in London, we have had our more than fair share of rain this year. This means that crops are all over the place and maybe [...]
Gosh, I am really surprised! sometime ago I joined a stats website that is supposedly telling me how many people come to my blog, in December I did quite well -considering the number of bloggers around; there were people in Canada, in Israel and lots in the US looking at my blog. In January the [...]