the food diaries

Can Ancient, Chinese wisdom be found in the old Anglo-Saxon culture??

I visited my friend, Brad’s allotment to learn more about growing food…

Looking back at my harvest from 2021!

Playing with color, texture, and shape of vegetables can be a creative respite as autumn is ushering in winter.

Once it's all done. Your final results should be like this and ready to be enjoyed with a little chilli sauce on the side

Again, just for fun, I put the stem in a pot with other basil plants on my kitchen window sill. Then it started to shoot!

As far as I'm concerned, there's only two Beigel shops in London - Beigel Bake and Beigel Shop. Both on Brick Lane in the East End of London.

At some point in time, I’d decided that I didn’t need to follow the recipe anymore.

I hope from reading this its inspired you to try out more kombucha. Head to your local health store or cafe. If they haven’t got it, remind them that they are missing out on a drink that has been around for over two thousand years.

Osban is a traditional Libyan sausage. The sausage is stuffed with rice and spring onions, as well as lamb meat, chopped liver, and other lamb parts.

This is our traditional food which we call Attieke but many people call it cassava couscous as it comes from cassava originally. Attieke originates from the African Coast

Attieke is better when it's eaten with a group of family or friends sat eating from the same plate - that makes it more enjoyable!

If there is one recipe that I always wanted to have passed down (I am sure there are many) then this is definitely one of those. My Mum’s apple cake. Strictly speaking it’s not my Mum’s own recipe as her friend Ruby gave her a photocopy from a cook book .

One Pu Er tea categorised as ‘Ancient Tea Trees’ tea, is harvested from old tea trees that are almost around 300-400 years old. Tea trees grow very slowly. I once visited an 800-year-old Tea Tree in Mt. Nannuo, next to it there had once been a tree of around 1000 years old.

Leading busy lives can be challenging to remember to plan to make wholesome food. I have found so over the years of bringing up twins mostly by myself with a little help along the way from friends and family.

So we brought the large colander full of small purple grapes into the kitchen after my son Trinley and I had tasted a couple - just about sour turning to sweet - perfect!

This dough recipe is taken from Delia Smith’s pitta bread recipe of which this works for every time like magic!

I’ve never made brownies before, and I wanted to see what homemade brownies looked like because I’ve only ever had a brownie once before. I felt pretty confident of making them by myself and so I tried it and it worked perfectly.

It turned out dad's beans, onions and tomatoes had come along so well and they'd been munching their way through beautiful homegrown produce!

It’s no secret that it was in fact by practicing Falun Dafa that I made a full recovery. The exercises helped me both physically and mentally, were gentle enough for me to cope with after being so weak for such a long time and really easy to learn.

I bought three grape plants from a garden centre here in the UK, a few years ago now, as they were reduced to £3 each

Trollkrem is a very easy to make dessert. The main ingredient is lingonberries.

A simple little walk through, from the fields gathering wild rose hips to the kitchen to preserve them into tea and syrup and setting some aside for drying to use later.

last week dad brought me some tiny, miniature apples and told me he’d gathered them from the grass verge under these three pretty little trees on the corner.

A brisk walk along the river this morning, in an attempt to avoid the mid day heat, brought me into contact with a small feast of blackberries along the way…