The Botanical Kitchen
Recipes, travel and the occasional rant
My youngest daughter seems very excited about Valentine’s Day. She’s been talking about it all week. To her it’s all about ‘famgether’. This is a silly word our family made up one holiday. It means ‘family together’. Silly I know but it creeps into conversations when we haven’t seen each other consistently for a while. […]
If you received a beautiful bunch of roses for Valentine’s Day, they should still be going strong. If they are starting to wilt, re-cut the stems on a diagonal and then pop them back into a squeaky clean vase with freshwater. You only need about 2 inches worth of water. Any more than this will […]
If you are as old as me and grew up in England you will be very familiar with the phrase “through the square window”. This was the time of day I loved. Just home from school, sitting with a snack in front of our tiny TV watching Play School on BBC1. Every episode you […]