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 By Jan Cheshire
I WAS walking round the supermarket looking for mincemeat the other day, the sort that you use for Christmas mince tarts. The jars of mincemeat were quite expensive, so I decided I would make my own this year, as well as my own tarts.
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 By Jan Cheshire
WE GROW too much rhubarb!! I recently asked Bert to cut the rhubarb back a bit as I can’t keep up with it. So of course I got myself a load of rhubarb. However, this lovely cake was so delicious that I didn’t complain too much. Try it and see.  By Jan Cheshire
I DO like to have a vegetarian style meal sometimes. This vegetable and rice bake doesn't sound all that wonderful but it is really very delicious. You can use any vegetable in this.  By Jan Cheshire
Cauliflower is a “trendy” vegetable these days, and it is indeed good for you. But I have never been fond of it just plain boiled. This is a delicious, heart-warming soup which I really do enjoy and I am sure you will too. It is quite impressive for a special dinner, too, dressed up with some crisp bacon pieces.  By Jan Cheshire
WITH all this rain and the electricity outages I feel we need something warming and sweet. This pumpkin and coconut cake is very quick and easy to make, and it uses the last of our uninvited pumpkins!  This is one of those recipes where you use whatevers in the garden or fridge. THIS is a recipe from The Cape Kitchen crew to yours.
This broth is cooked low and slow - perfect to while away the coming days of lockdown. And to make you even more relaxed, there are no real measurements required!  By Jan Cheshire
The best thing about the colder weather is SOUP. I have just found an older recipe for a lovely soup that my mother used to cook. It is very warming and full of good nutrients.  By Jan Cheshire
I’M going back a long time with this cake recipe, which I recently rediscovered on the internet. My mother made this quite often, to our delight! It is a lovely cake and so easy to make.  By Jan Cheshire
BERT and I love this time of the year with all the delicious fruits on offer; especially plums. This is a very easy recipe to make and a lovely dessert.  By Jan Cheshire
I FOUND this delightful dessert recently. I had not seen this recipe for many years. It is an old-fashioned recipe which was popular in England, especially in Cornwall, when I lived there many moons ago. It is remarkably simple but most delicious. Do try it, I am sure your family and friends will love it.  By Jan Cheshire
I MUST admit I’m not all that excited about summertime, but I do enjoy finding recipes for salads, especially because we have lots of salad.vegies in the garden. Risoni is a type of pasta, a bit like rice.  By Jan Cheshire
GOODNESS, it’s almost Christmas again. Where did this year go? And let’s hope that 2021 will be a better year for us all! This year’s Christmas recipe is pinched from my husband Bert, who makes this pudding every Christmas.  By Jan Cheshire
THIS cake is light and airy and very delicious. You could make it with other berries, but the blueberries, which seem to be a bit cheaper this year, blend very well with the lemon curd. You can buy the lemon curd or make it. The recipe is very easy.  By Jan Cheshire
EVERY year nearing Christmas I make lots of small sausage rolls which usually get eaten before Christmas comes round. Recently I saw a picture of these giant sausage rolls on the computer. I decided to have a go that day because I could not fathom what to have for dinner that evening. They were a great BIG hit!  By Jan Cheshire
IT WILL soon be time for Halloween. When I lived in southern Ireland many years ago, October 31 (All Hallows Eve) was very popular with all the children in the village where we lived. After school was over, the local children would dress up as ghosts or monsters and go around knocking on doors and offering “trick or treat”. Of course I would have laid by a few bags of lollies, and when they ran out I would offer apples to the would-be scary creatures. It was a great deal of fun all round.  By Jan Cheshire
I GUESS like me you are all looking forward to some warmer weather very soon. I have been baking when I cannot get out in the garden because of the weather. This is a delicious and very easy cake. Blueberries are so good for you and at the moment they are reasonably priced and very delicious whether in a cake or a fruit bowl.  By Jan Cheshire
The first of the broad beans are appearing. Once the season is in full swing we will freeze some, along with the peas that Bert grew. They do freeze well and last a few months in the freezer. However, I really love them cooked then cooled and served in a salad. This one is especially nice.  By Jan Cheshire
I’M finding that fresh fish are getting too expensive in the supermarket for me these days. So, this week I decided to do a fish dinner with a large tin of tuna, and it was very delicious. I thought I would pass it on.  By Jan Cheshire
THE broccolini plants have not stopped producing. We really enjoy broccolini, but we don’t want to have it with every meal. However, I have found a delicious soup you can make with broccoli or broccolini, whichever takes your fancy. It’s called broccoli & blue cheese soup, but I reckon you could put any sort of cheese in it and it would still taste great.  By Jan Cheshire
I HOPE everyone is enjoying life as it is at the moment. As always, we have had lots of apples, so I’ve been busy trying to cook them up. We’ve also had a lot of large pumpkins this year and I have made lots of soup and cake etc. However, I thought I would try a recipe I have been looking at for a while, not entirely sure it would be okay. I tried it out on husband Bert and my son, Ben. I was happily surprised that they both loved it and so did I. Risottos are easy to make; you just add the stock regularly and “cream” the rice  By Jan Cheshire
THIS is a really old-fashioned soup that was very popular in Britain when I was growing up. I had forgotten all about it until recently when I had a large head of celery to use up. This is really a most delicious soup and very simple and cheap to make, especially if you have lots of celery in your garden.  By Jan Cheshire
On cold wintry nights, we need comfort foods to keep us warm. With plenty of leeks in our garden, this very delicious casserole was very easy to cook and even easier to eat.  By Jan Cheshire
At this time of the year, Bert and I really enjoy eating steamed or baked puddings – part of our English heritage, I suppose. When we were kids we always had a dessert after dinner, be it a tin of fruit and some evaporated milk, a stodgy rice pudding or a hot steaming pudding. These little puddings are a bit more sophisticated than the old “spotted dick” of my childhood, but they are very delicious and heart-warming – just what you need for a chilly winter’s evening.  By Jan Cheshire
EACH winter I look forward to making tasty, warming soups and slow-cooked stews. Each year I try out new ideas for soups and eventually come up with an outright winner for the year. Last year it was the celeriac and potato soup. Celeriacs are those strange, knobbly, slightly pear-shaped vegetables that look a bit like a goblin’s head with green hair.  By Jan Cheshire
WE’VE had amazing crops of pink lady and granny smith apples this year. I’ve been wracking my brains as what to do with them all. I have dried them, made cakes, tarts, crumbles, etc. I have even frozen them. The best thing I made was this lovely and easy cake from a book titled Now for Something Sweet by the Monday Morning Cooking Club. I hope you'll like it too. |