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Squash/Pumpkin & Lentil Soup

  • Emma
  • August 18, 2019
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  •  autumn, soup, vegan

A tasty and filling soup, perfect for cool autumn lunch or dinner. Serve with crusty bread and butter. Print Recipe Squash/Pumpkin & Lentil Soup Servings Ingredients 1 or more pumpkin or squash Use whatever squash you have available (I used half a red kuri (hokkaido) squash and a piece long island cheese pumpkin.1 cup red […]

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Garlic Scape & Lemon Balm Pesto

  • Emma
  • August 18, 2019
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  •  vegan

If your garlic plants look like they’ve bolted and your garden is bursting with lemon balm, try this tasty pesto as an alternative to the heavier basil, parmesan and pine nut variety. Print Recipe Garlic Scape & Lemon Balm Pesto Course Main Course, Pastes & Sauces Prep Time 20 minutes Cook Time 10 minutes Servings […]

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More Food Fresh from the Garden

  • Emma
  • July 11, 2019
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  •  garlic scapes, homemade, lemonbalm, pesto, recipes

With everything that’s happened this year, we haven’t been able to make as much of the garden as we would have liked. Really, we’d hoped to have finalised the purchase of our land by now and have had access over the summer – to set up “camp” and start to get some vegetable beds ready […]

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Knitting, Soup & Savoury Muffins

  • Emma
  • November 13, 2018
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  •  autumn, muffins, soup

As much as I love the warmth of spring and summer, there’s something about the autumn light and the urge to wrap up, nest, and make warm, hearty food that makes me wonder whether I should really choose autumn as my favourite season. The weather cooled all of the sudden just a week or so […]

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Life in France: The Healthy Eating Challenge

  • Emma
  • September 29, 2017
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Since moving to France we’ve fallen into some pretty bad habits food-wise. Think white bread, full-fat cheese, yoghurts, charcuterie, pasta, and so on. On top of that we also had, for a while, an intense relationship with multipacks of chocolatines which, thankfully, we’ve managed to break. Although I’ve not been gaining weight (okay, maybe a […]

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Recipe: Wild Garlic & Red Onion Pizza

  • Emma
  • April 11, 2017
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  •  baby led weaning, pizza

I was lucky enough to have been given a bag of wild garlic, which is just coming out of season and grows abundantly along the river banks around here. Learning when and where to pick many of these natural foods is all part of the learning experience in this part of the world that’s new […]

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