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Tag: courgette

Courgette, cheese and bacon quiche with hyssop pastry

August 2, 2015May 17, 2022 Ink Sugar Spice2 Comments

Unusual hyssop pastry adds a slightly aniseed tang to this rich quiche

Posted in Baking, British, Food, Herbs, Lunch, Picnic, SummerTagged al fresco, bacon, cheese, courgette, flan, pastry, Picnic, quiche, savoury, vegetables

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Lilacs and our giant ceanothus in the background. No baking today - I’ve actually been in hospital for a scheduled day operation and have just got home. Didn’t go as expected so who knows what’s going to happen next: I expect there’ll be another op in the pipeline. Anyway on a happier note I’m already feeling better now I’m home. I expect I’ll need a few days to recuperate and then I’ll get back to baking to catch up with my routine and normality xx Big fat chonky pecan shortbread biscuits, with a hint of orange. Savoury cracker making - these have Parmesan, rosemary and a ladle of my sourdough starter. I get a bit giddy at the start of summer - the promise of long, languid days living outside, fine food and drink with friends and family and the background noise of children just having the best time of their lives. So the sun brought out a vibrant dinner of homemade tortillas, ripped up and laid under Mexican rice, steak fajitas, salad leaves and sour cream with fresh garlic chives out of the garden. I mentioned that I was working on an article about keeping a sketchbook and daily drawing and sketching, with a view to it helping you with your positive mental health, reducing stress etc... it's a bit later than I'd hoped (just after #mentalhealthawarenessweek) but here it is. I’m sure some of you know I’m a Mental Health First Aider and have a keen interest in promoting arts and crafts for mindfulness. A little zipped purse (it also has a flap pocket on the other side) I made out of scraps of coloured leather … I did make this a while ago but never posted. Also I was trying out folded paper as backgrounds, which works well I think but does take a lot of patience! Yes, more so for me than making a purse ☺️ Leafy (and slightly hippy!) sourdough, made with dulse seaweed and hempseeds. Went to the first life drawing class I’ve attended in at least 25 years this week. Absolutely loved it, definitely highly rusty - but that’s some of the point isn’t it? Practice and improve!! I also partly went because I felt I ought to start take my own advice: I’m always espousing that drawing helping stress and mindfulness. Particularly I went now because over the past couple of weeks I’ve been writing a new article for my blog about this very thing: how drawing can help positive mental health. This article includes some ideas to make getting into it easier (particularly if you’re new to daily sketching) and a few drawing exercises. I hope to finish writing this today or tomorrow for the final days of #mentalhealthawarenessweek Fight for your right to party (rings) 🎶

Delighted to share that I have been shortlisted for the prestigious Pink Lady Food Photos Awards for the third year running (2020-2022)

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