Ingredient List

I can’t think of quinces without thinking about my Gran’s Marmelada; quince cheese.  Quince cheese is now readily available here,  I’ve seen it on supermarket’s cheese counter.  This is great news because it’s done the transition from being a specialist food to something easily available for all of us to enjoy.  Obviously I have to [...]

These large squatted shaped black figs are regarded as the best in the fig world.  It’s sweetness, the ratio of flesh to thin skin makes this moisture laden variety of figs very popular among fig lovers like me.  For such fragile fruit this particular type transport well and I’m guessing that’s also part of the [...]

I have the feeling I’ve been mostly attracted to mini fruits of late, there were the mirabelles, doughnut peaches, doughnut nectarines and now these little pears, and like the mini nectarines I have never heard of them before.  OK, so there’s a lot I haven’t heard of…but pears are something I’m always on the look [...]

I saw these for the very first time today.  Have never seen or heard anyone coming across them before.  I had to go into High Holborn to the divorce courts again, fourth time now, for a copy of my absolute, again…you see…I said things weren’t straight forward.  I was walking along Kingsway just past the [...]