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How to Make the Perfect Scone For Afternoon Tea Week

11th August 2014 By Urvashi Roe

Afternoon tea is one of my favourite pastimes.  How luxurious to sit and simply drink tea.  From a pot.  In a cup and saucer no less.  However as an Indian I find it rather strange that it is a luxury.  When I was growing up tea was always fussed over. Making a brew of chai […]

Filed Under: Sweet Tagged With: #afternoonteaweek, afternoon tea, baking, scones

The Last Of My Raspberries

30th July 2014 By Urvashi Roe

raspberry pannacotta

Last year my raspberry bush at the allotment gave us what seemed like a never ending supply of luscious ruby raspberries.  This year we’ve had equally a bumper crop. It has been so easy eating them simply off the bush while picking.  Especially in the hot and humid weather we’ve been having in England recently. […]

Filed Under: Sweet Tagged With: pannacotta, Raspberry

Magical Purple Mange Tout

23rd July 2014 By Urvashi Roe

We were very organised on the allotment this year.  We planned over Christmas holidays because we did not want to be pipped to the post with seeds running out or not getting things in time. We were keen to grow mange tout – or ‘mange toots’ as my littlest calls them. Our local veg stall […]

Filed Under: Light Bites Tagged With: Allotment, cooking, food, gardening, mange tout, purple, thompson and morgan shiraz mange tout

Sunday Spotlight : Castello Cheese

13th July 2014 By Urvashi Roe

I’m a sucker for cheese.  It’s my absolute vice.  As soon as I get the nibbles I reach for the cheese. In restaurants, I find myself pondering skipping the mains and going for the dessert and cheese courses instead.  My palette has developed from the mild Cheddars and Bries to the oozy Camemberts and even the […]

Filed Under: Pasta, Products Tagged With: castello cheese, cheese, cooking, food, pasta

Nasturtiums and Nhoque da Sorte

29th June 2014 By Urvashi Roe

We didn’t plant any nasturtiums at all this year.  Totally forgot. But the beautiful blooms have come up all on their own in the same place and randomly across the patch.  They seem to know what needs company as a little bloom appeared right next to the Firestorm Runner Beans last week and a little sprout […]

Filed Under: Pasta Tagged With: Allotment, Brazil, cooking, flower, food, nasturtiums, Nhoque da Sorte, Noquis, Uruguay

Farewell Elderflowers

18th June 2014 By Urvashi Roe

Did elderflower season start last longer last year?  I don’t know about you but I think I have blinked and missed it.  I don’t even remember walking around the allotment inhaling the wondrous scent.  I think that may be because they’ve moved the manure right next to the tree! An ancient and wondrous plant A […]

Filed Under: Sweet Tagged With: Allotment, cake, elderflower

Allotment Tarts

28th May 2014 By Urvashi Roe

We are having unsettled weather in the UK at the moment and that means lots of allotment time.  Either to sort out the mess after heavy rain or to bask in the sunshine while it lasts. This year, we’ve extended our allotment ever so slightly but chopping down all the nettle and bramble growth to the […]

Filed Under: Light Bites Tagged With: Allotment, baking, food, gardening, pastry

A Classic Moroccan Bessara With My Broad Bean Harvest

21st May 2014 By Urvashi Roe

We’ve gone a bit bonkers with the bean planting on the allotment this year.  I have some runner beans of the firestorm variety which yield the vibrant red edible flowers which I am looking forward to almost more than the beans.  I have various varieties of dwarf beans because I’ve discovered they grow quite happily in […]

Filed Under: Light Bites, Soup Tagged With: Allotment, bessara, broad beans, dwarf bean, fava beans, food, moroccan food, runner bean

Bye Bye Indian Mangoes

8th May 2014 By Urvashi Roe

It’s Indian mango season.  The season I look forward to the most.  The season that makes me salivate the most.  The season I never tire of because I could eat my bodyweight in Indian mangoes and then perhaps your body weight too!  They are beloved in my household and we usually buy dozens of boxes […]

Filed Under: Sweet Tagged With: EU mango ban, food, fruit, fruit leather, Mango, recipes

Celebrating Cherry Blossoms

29th April 2014 By Urvashi Roe

Sunny skies of late and unseasonably warm weather have seen trees come into bloom earlier this year.  Spring blossoms almost pass us by without a second thought.  This would never happen in Japan. Over there, it is customary to celebrate trees coming into flower and the season is currently in full swing.  It’s ‘Hanami’ time. […]

Filed Under: Sweet Tagged With: baking, cherry blossom, cupcake, hanami, japan, recipe, sakura

Dandelions Are Not Just Lawn Wreckers

28th March 2014 By Urvashi Roe

Have you noticed that alongside the daffodils that seem to be everywhere, there are also bursts of yellow from dandelions? They too are so pretty and brighten up banks of green in our lovely city of London – or the suburbs in my case. Like many, I’ve disregarded these these plants.  Sunny and cheerful as […]

Filed Under: Light Bites Tagged With: baking, Dandelion, edible flowers, food, Foraging, pastry

Obsessing Over Onion Breath

22nd March 2014 By Urvashi Roe

I felt rather sad for the onion this week.  I was in a falafel shop ordering my lunch. As part of the salad there are onions and as I was returning to work after lunch I asked the young man to leave them out.  I didn’t want to be smelly (or indeed make smells!).  He […]

Filed Under: Preserves & Pickles Tagged With: onions, pickles

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