Cider recipe :

Leek and Prosciutto Tart with Warm Apple Cider for Fall Brunch

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Yay! I made it! You wondering what? Well, I have been planning this brunch for the past three weekends and something or other just kept pushing it on to the back burner. This weekend, I finally decided to tell my Google calender whoz boss! I put[...]

Cider-Braised Pork Shoulder with Carmelized Onions! An Inexpensive and Gourmet Dinner

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There is something beyond delicious about a hunk of meat cooking in the oven for several hours-getting juicy, succulent & falling apart that is just so magical. Hee hee! Pork shoulder is a great meat for just this purpose. Not only is it[...]

Mendip Pimms Recipe

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Forget the original Pimm’s that is enjoyed at all the finest sporting events across the UK. I spotted this recipe in the Mendip Times during a recent visit to Somerset. A Mendip version of recipe created by John the Chef from Fernhill[...]

Recipe: Braised Pork Shoulder with Mustard Reduction Sauce

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A while back, I posted up on Twitter that I was going to slow cook some pork shoulder in the oven.  The response that came back was really obnoxious… people writing that at least I wasn’t calling it barbecue or asking why I would do[...]

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The wonderful folks at King Arthur Flour sent me some boiled cider to try out. I made cider doughnuts , and they were wonderful.  But, what I really wanted to try were scones with the boiled cider. Image courtesy[...]

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I saw this recipe on Pinterest , and I knew I had to do a take on them... I did not have the "powdered cider drink mix" that they use in their recipe, but I do have some of that handy dandy Boiled Cider from King Arthur Flour.[...]

Chocs Away

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Hands-up if you're a fan of dried  Figs . Hmm, thought so... Alright then..... how about the aforementioned Figs, soaked for the best part of a day in Calvados , lovingly wrapped in the finest Marzipan  our local Waitrose[...]

Time for Bread

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It's National Bread Week.... Ho-Hum! Apparently we're supposed to celebrate this important national event by buying trolley-loads of nasty white-sliced 'Bread', and thinking really hard about the 'roll' (ha-ha!) that this (ahem!) 'Bread' plays[...]

Fruit Salad Days

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The bloomin' hard graft of cidermaking could become something of a chore at this time of year. Picking, washing, milling, pressing.... cleaning, picking, washing, milling, sleeping.....picking.... I think you get the idea.[...]

In Praise of Pork

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After slumming it on 70's style comfort food all week (Egg & Chips, Yummy!), we went all gastro this evening. Posh Sausage & Mash to be precise, and they don't come much posher than the gourmet sizzlers from Dickinson & Morris .[...]