Here as promised is my super easy recipe for Pistou that I showed you in my winter vegetable soup post on Wednesday. Pistou looks just like Pesto doesn’t it? Beautifully green and packed with natural goodness, a Mediterranean treat if ever there was one. Those lucky folks who live in these sunshine lands know a…
Archives for January 2014
Winter Vegetable Soup
It is cold and wet and windy here in Scotland. Winter is upon us, but not in the pretty but chilly snow filled way, more in the bone cold and damp sort of way. When the weather is like this there is just nothing better than holing up in the house and keeping warm by…
Sugar Free Sweet And Sour Apricots
We are still in January though almost through this first dreary month of the year, still in sugar free land with my recipes. This time I thought I’d share with you my sugar free sweet and sour apricots. These are tart and tangy and just great to serve with cooked ham and a simple baked…
An Easy Haggis Recipe – Burns Baubles For Burns Night
Tomorrow is Burn’s Night and all over Scotland (and in many other places where the Scots gather) there will be celebrations held for that most Scottish of poets. The man who gave us Auld Lang Syne and so much more will be remembered tomorrow and toasted with wisky while his Address To The Haggis is…
Ten Great Household Uses For Sugar Without Eating It!
Since this January I have decided to cut out the good old processed white sugar from my diet as much as possible, I thought I would look around for some alternative uses for the stuff. You know me, I do hate waste, so I’m not going to be cooking with it this month just what…
Perfect Peppers Preserved In Oil
Preserving isn’t just about sweet stuff, sticky jams and jellies and what to put on toast. Preserving is about one thing, one word if you will – preserving is about saving; making something you have today last till tomorrow, or another day, another week, or even a few more months, like these peppers preserved in…
Homemade Curry Powder
You know how some days you just get nothing done. You start out with such great intentions but everything seems to go to pot and by the end of the day your To Do list is the same length it was in the morning and you have a nasty feeling you’ve been just a wee…
Free Ebook Ten Easy Preserves
Morning all, I thought I would share with you my new Ebook that I have just created as a sign up gift for new subscribers to my Larder Love monthly newsletter. Of course I had planned to launch this on the first of the month, but alas me and technology had a little falling out…
