Video – Broad Bean & Rocket Salad With Chili Dressing

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Broad Bean crop - 2010

Welcome to my first video, the first of many I hope. Go easy on me as we get to grips with the brand new and very exciting medium of film (we’re working on the sound, it was a breezy day!) One of things I love about having this site is being able to communicate and [...]

Spinach, Prosciutto & Goats Cheese Salad

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Spinach, prosciutto & goats cheese salad - 1

Spinach, Prosciutto & Goats Cheese Salad – serves 2 adults Click here for our cooking & weight conversion chart There is a certain spinach salad that I order every time I eat in a certain Italian restaurant. I eat it with such gusto that even though I order a large portion I nearly always contemplate [...]

Crab Salad with Chili Dressing

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Crab Salad 5

When you are pregnant all of the foods that you are supposedly not ‘allowed’ to eat suddenly become irresistible. Take this Crab Salad for instance. Shellfish is not encouraged during pregnancy and so I had to make myself a tiny wee portion of this salad ‘sans crab’. It was important that I had at least [...]

Cajun Chicken Seasoning Recipe

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Cherry

This is a recipe that came out of a need to use up a pack of chicken that was in the fridge. I didn’t want to freeze it and it needed to be cooked. So I grabbed an empty jar of cajun seasoning, read the ingredients out loud to myself, omitted the crap that they put in to those jars, gathered some herbs and [...]

How to make Basil Pesto , Eating with Basil by Cherry Menlove

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

How to make Basil Pesto recipe - Cherry Menlove

Basil grows in my garden in a big blue pot. The blue looks so bright against the green and when the sun shines on them both I could very easily be in the Mediterranean. Basil has one of those smells that never fails to make people exclaim, in some way or another, how much they love [...]

Dressing for the Occasion – How To Make Italian Salad Dressing Recipe by Cherry Menlove

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Original Dressing 1 - Cherry Menlove

It’s Tuesday, so I’m talking to you from my kitchen! Dressing for the Occasion – Italian Salad Dressing Recipe The weather here in the South of England has been spoiling us recently and I have been waking up to the sun streaming through my curtains and telling me in the only way that the sun can [...]