Shell’s

31/08/2026

Happy Birthday to me ! Food, family weekend, 🎈 garden, figs focaccia, French butter, Manchester United, driving, Scotland, Manchester, Bromsgrove, Borth, Groslay and friends x

21/08/2026

Jamming 💜🌸
G’ma making fig jam with ginger, cardamom, lemon, orange 🍊, unrefined cane sugar , a little himalayan salt and sunshine ☀️ in Bromsgrove

31/07/2026

Edible flowers ready to press into a dry arrangement for the winter season 🌻🪴

28/07/2026

An early morning baking day of two halves or half baked !

Locally picked blackberry, raspberry, lemon zest, vanilla, nutmeg and now ready to eat with ice cold creme fraiche 🌸🐚

18/06/2026

Tortilla de patatas,omelette parmentier, potato omelette 💛 🇪🇸🇪🇺🇫🇷
When your Spanish neighbour walks past our kitchen window and says “no onion 🧅!!! ‘😂
But mum says best omelette 🌎🌞. So happy to be cooking here on the Paseo Maritimo 🌸🌊

04/06/2026

Salsicce corperte di pastella e cotte nel forno !
Translated in Bromsgrove as Toad In The Hole 🪴

Fresh fennel sausage, roasted fennel, roasted onion petals, sage, rosemary,thyme flat leaf parsley and fennel from the garden.
Steamed fennel and heritage carrot.
Fresh Yorkshire pudding mix made in Bromsgrove ,himalayn salt and black pepper.

Served on petite pois / peas (I was always told at catering college in the 80’s never to mix English and French on a menu. As both were classics on their own. But what happens when you are both ? As in a well known cooking phrase , marriages can be made in heaven 💚
Meanwhile in the garden the Borth strawberries are ripening, the figs are blowing and the endozoochory poppies are beautiful at the end of our garden 🐚

08/05/2026

Squid, squid croquettes, Malaga fish , smoked red mullet,smoked red mullet roe and chips 🐠🇪🇸

06/05/2026

Wild garlic vinegar and wild garlic pasta after a wild walk on Bredon Hill yesterday 🌿💙

25/04/2026

Saturday evening grilled squid 🦑 Bromsgrove 🌍
Morrisons frozen baby squid, garlic, ginger, fresh tomato,, yellow courgette, lots of chopped flat leaf parsley, basil, Romano peppers, spring onion, tomato paste and tricolour spaghetti 🇮🇹
Baby fig and leaves sprouting in the evening sunshine 🍃e

25/04/2026