A beautiful drive, north east recently took me to Whitby to meet Rob and Emma Green whose restaurant - Green's - is the go to place for great seafood cooking on this part of the coast. Rob has just opened a cookery school which he runs out of the restaurant kitchen. I visited to write a piece for the Yorkshire Post.
Read MoreRecipes from a church orchard
In 1984, antiquarian book valuer Derek Law from Addiingham in West Yorkshire came across Gilbert White’s book ‘Garden Kalender’ while working in the British Library. White (1720-1793) a rector/naturalist developed an orchard for his parish in Selborne to feed fruit to the poor all year round.
Read MoreIt's spice time with falafel, pita and harissa
Spicy, fragrant, sweet, sour, hot and gutsy were the flavours I tasted the first time I ate falafel in a soft, freshly cooked pillowy pita. I was a student working on a kibbutz outside Jerusalem. After finishing a day's work I would hitch a lift into the city and revel in tasting new foods cooked on the street in the stifling heat.
Read MoreAlmond & Chocolate Pots. Cooking with Susie Cooper's vintage cups
This neat 100ml coffee cup bears Susie Cooper's navy blue asterisk design. I found a set of six cups and saucers in a hoard of old china when clearing an elderly relative's flat. I think they were designed in the early 1940's.
Read MoreBaked plums with elderberry honey
Plums and elderberries have been on my mind over the last few weeks. The plum trees growing in the Church orchard at Addingham are dripping with dark red fruit waiting to be picked by someone brave enough to climb the ladder.
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