It’s ready when it’s ready

Domestic goddess rating: 50% (am having work-fest at the moment so hubby’s cooking, but I’m still growing) Five-a-day: 5/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: toast, marmalade and juice (breakfast); pasta and pesto (lunch); chops, chips and home-grown swiss chard and pine nuts (supper)
I found a great article today, by a recent convert to seasonal eating - she liked it [...]

Salad days

Domestic goddess rating: 50% (haven’t exactly pushed the boat out today but since I’m GYO queen I’m happy) Five-a-day: 5/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: toast, marmalade and juice (breakfast); pasta and tinned tomato sauce (lunch); bacon, potatoes and salad from the garden (supper)
I’m so proud of my salad patch. I started it in February with the first sowing, [...]

The darling buds of May

Domestic goddess rating: 0% (it’s my birthday so a day off goddess-dom today) Five-a-day: 5/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: bacon sandwich, greek yoghurt and honey (all-Sally’s-favourite-things breakfast); half a tuna sandwich (post-breakfast recovery lunch); fillet steak, asparagus and pommes nicoise (very posh birthday tea from hubby - who’s a lucky girl then)
What a [...]

A season in Italy

Domestic goddess rating: 20% (seriously working mum just lately so the house has gone to pot… managed to find some great new recipes though) Five-a-day: 5/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: toast, jam & juice (breakfast); sardines on toast (hastily cobbled-together lunch); pub grub (supper with a mate)
Have been shamefully remiss on the blogging front [...]

Post-holiday comfort food #2

Domestic goddess rating: 100% (baking goddess despite frantic family day - ha!) Five-a-day: 5/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: toast, jam & juice (breakfast); chicken soup (lunch); spaghetti bolognese and salad (supper)
Back to life, back to reality… spag bol on the menu again as rushing around after the kids. When did they invent after-school clubs? And [...]

Veggie abundance

Domestic goddess rating: 100% (the cookfest continues) Five-a-day: 5/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: toast, jam & juice (breakfast); can of coke - oops (lunch); chard pasta and rhubarb crumble (supper)
Howzat for a home-grown supper. The chard I used for this easy-peasy pasta sauce came from the allotment - I’ve had a couple of pickings now [...]

Always in season #2

Domestic goddess rating: 0% (am beginning to think goddess status may be beyond me, unless you count my undisputed reign - in my house anyway - as gardening goddess) Five-a-day: 4/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: toast, marmalade and juice (breakfast); cornish pasty from the garage (lunch); roast free range chicken, home-grown PSB and potatoes (supper cooked by hubby, grown by [...]

Where to get seasonal food #2: The allotment

Domestic goddess rating: 0% (slogged through four hours of gardening in a thunderstorm, I deserve a break) Five-a-day: 4/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: sausage and egg (breakfast); cup of coffee and rain (lunch); curry and rice (supper)

Well - I know it looks a bit wild and woolly at the moment, but I thought I’d introduce you to my allotment.
This [...]

Tripping over what’s on my doorstep

Domestic goddess rating: 0% (am total restaurant slut) Five-a-day: 3/5 Food miles: none (that we racked up personally, anyway)
On the menu: Fried egg and potato (sinfully indulgent breakfast); caesar salad at the restaurant by the cinema (ditto lunch); Chinese meal with friends (ditto supper)
It’s been the Long Good Friday as far as food’s concerned today. Didn’t cook [...]

Pick’n'cook

Domestic goddess rating: 100% (back to normal goddess-like state today) Five-a-day: 5/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: Porridge and juice (breakfast); coffee and a biscuit (lunch - uh-oh); Italian chard pie and mash (fabby home-grown supper)
Got to the allotment today and found the chard bursting with health, so couldn’t resist snipping off my first proper harvest. The leaves are still [...]