Sarah Beattie’s blog Vox 2008-07-07T15:28:47Z Sarah Beattie http://sarahbeattie.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cd973773724cd5/ le temps des cerises - or we're jamming now that cherry picking time is here tag:vox.com,2008-07-07:asset-6a00cd973773724cd500fa96853c8b0002 2008-07-07T15:28:47Z 2008-07-07T15:28:47Z Sarah Beattie http://sarahbeattie.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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After a wet, wet Spring the warm sun came out and ripened a bumper crop of cherries. There were easy pickings from Irene's tree which the birds had not spotted. She had an unusual method which involves sawing off large branches: pruning and harve...

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More may 002

Or Mirande market mushrooms...ok, enough aliteration. Except I should add mmmmmmmm......they were delicious. Mirande market is wonderful from inside halles where people can have just half a table to flog a few herbs or jars of honey to the enormo...

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France07 003

The house is sold, we are packing up, it's time to go. We are off to the gourmet epicentre of France - Gascony. I will, next year, be running residential cooking classes - so watch this space. In the meantime there will be loads to do to get the ...

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Amost Valentine's Day, when food of pink, red and purple comes centre stage. You could always go one further and make it heart shaped too. I did the heart shaped ravioli (above) as this month's recipe on the Soil Association's website http://www...

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I was writing next month's recipe for www.whyorganic.org which is an alternative to Christmas Pud and then I thought I ought to give you several other options, so here they are (we'll be having the "Light" Pud - it's very fruity and will be serve...

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4october

Nearly three months since my last posting - that's terrible! I have been busy: extra shifts at the Community Office; Green Day at the Walled Garden in Helmsley; trips to Georgia and Wigtown and getting the house ready to sell (huge quantities of ...

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]]> Across the Pennines for Woman's Hour tag:vox.com,2007-07-26:asset-6a00cd973773724cd500e398977f590002 2007-07-26T15:15:16Z 2007-07-26T15:18:35Z Sarah Beattie http://sarahbeattie.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Lavender 011

Up at an ungodly hour this morning to go to Manchester to talk about lavender in cooking. It was great to finally meet the delightful, self-effacing Jekka MacVicar http://www.jekkasherbfarm.com/ who has done so much to encourage the British to us...

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Beetroot

I seem to be going through a purple patch. I will be appearing on Woman's Hour on the 26th cooking with lavender and my In Season piece on www.whyorganic.org for August will be a beetroot tart. A fabulous soup enjoyed at Bristol's Bordeaux Quay h...

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]]> Only a Lavender Cowboy...... tag:vox.com,2007-07-09:asset-6a00cd973773724cd500d4144c64aa3c7f 2007-07-09T09:28:30Z 2007-07-09T09:28:30Z Sarah Beattie http://sarahbeattie.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Just heard that the Lavender Festival I was due to appear at over the weekend is to be called off, due to the weather. The car park is waterlogged. Such a change from last year and the year before when the sun shone and we basked in the warmth as...

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Mctell

Yesterday was launch day for Michael's new book, "Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes - In Search of Blind Willie McTell" and we threw a party to celebrate with people wandering up to the house after the talk at the bookshop in Kirkby. I haven't added an...

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