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Taking time changes everything. I wanted to share this with you from @Elitzfoods. Because being kind and considerate can and does change lives. If you find that during this pandemic of COVID-19, you have a moment of time to share, no matter what it is, be it time to say thank you, or blog that recipe to share your knowledge, or even your skills, I urge you to do so, please pass it on.  I promise you, you will not regret it.  Here is what one simple act of kindness from me to Elitz that changed lives.  A few years...

And what is means to me. I run around hedgerows, I pick, forage and prepare the delights for jars. I am at one with the seasons, the growing moments in the garden and hedgerow, watching how it changes, it’s magical to me. It’s all I am. This is where I belong, growing, hunting, gathering, and of course in the kitchen, that my happy place, it’s where I feel at home. I love to sit back on occasion and reflect on the delights of the season. And tomorrow I take a step back and wonder at the magic of the world,...

Jam found ! A lot has happen in 8 years, it’s been jammy! I wanted to share with you when it really started, and it was in 1862! Yes 1862, someone in my family had the vision of writing down a jam recipe and fortunately it was passed on, and reached me via an original copy of Mrs Beeton cook book, my mum’s treasured air loom , something she treasured and loving looked after, with its battered pages. I loaned this book after the death of my mother just a few years ago. In it was this recipe with other’s...

Something is troubling me, for about a week or two, that set me on this path and I wanted to share it with you. My friend asked me what’s your favourite meal your mum cooked for you, that special dish if you could have it now what would it be? An innocent question that stopped me in my tracks. My mind wonders and I am cross I can’t think. I reconnect with the question for over two weeks, I can’t think,  I wonder through the memories of dinner parties, the chocolate eclairs at the winter wonderland party , the apple...