Author: wendyr

Christmas day is only five days away, where has the time gone? Funnily enough, compared to years gone, the groceries aren’t as busy, neither are the lanes overflowing with goodies begging to be bought. May be we have a lot more food stores and groceries all sharing in the same consumer pool. Maybe shoppers are […]

Pancakes still remain a more popular breakfast item, high and mighty, light and fluffy, drenched with syrup it’s easily everyone’s favourite breakfast. French toast is my favourite. Saturday mornings in my early teens, would often find me sleepy-eyed, dipping sliced bread into whipped eggs and then pan frying until golden and fragrant, it would then […]

The flavours of Christmas are in the air with tray vans full of sorrel begging to be cut and steeped and large mounds of ginger waiting to be taken home peeled grated and fermented to make our iconic ginger beer. It’s also a time when we prepare our local home-made wines from sorrel, ginger and […]