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Using herbs, spices, flowers and fruit to add flavour to life!
Last Posted Recipe: Dec 6, 2019

Sticky Ginger and Pear Cake
The spicy heat of ginger is the perfect counterpoint to the luscious sweetness of the pear in this easy cake recipe.
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Butternut Squash Hummus
This healthy and flavoursome hummus combines traditional ingredients with sweet, earthy butternut squash.
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Lime Drizzle Cake with Coconut
This easy recipe provides a tropical twist with flavours of lime and coconut to a traditional drizzle cake.
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Candied Orange Slices
Easy candied orange slices make a tasty and decorative addition to your cakes and desserts.
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Easy Smoked Salmon Pate
This luxurious Smoked Salmon Pate tastes so good and is made in minutes. Perfect for a romantic supper!
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Spiced Carrot Salad with Honey and Lemon
This warm salad combines sweet roasted carrots with zingy lemon and Middle Eastern spices. Perfect to brighten up a cold winter's day!
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Roasted Beetroot Salad with Yogurt
This easy and healthy Roasted Beetroot Salad combines the earthy sweetness of beetroot with creamy Greek yogurt and the nuttiness of tahini.
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Celeriac and Apple Soup
This warming vegan winter soup combines the classic flavours of celeriac and apple.
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Thai-style Cucumber Salad
Fresh, crunchy cucumber with soy, garlic, chilli and lime - perfect after Christmas and New Year indulgence and made in five minutes!
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Easy Poached Pears with Marsala Wine
A make-ahead autumnal recipe which transforms unripe pears into a sumptuous dessert through slow cooking them with Marsala Wine.
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Mushroom and Chestnut Pies
These vegetarian pies combine the sweetness of chestnuts with savoury mushrooms and make a fantastic autumn or winter supper.
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Beetroot Tart
This Beetroot Tart has a great sweet and savoury taste and makes a fantastic autumn vegetarian lunch or supper.
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Vegan Beetroot Soup with Coconut
In this delicious vegan soup the gentle heat and lemony flavour of fresh ginger and the creamy richness of coconut enhance the earthy flavour of the beetroot.
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Vegan Butternut and Peanut Butter Soup
In this delicious autumnal vegan soup, the sweetness of the butternut squash is balanced by warming chilli and rich peanut butter.
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Candied Lemon and Lime Slices
These Lemon and Lime Slices are very easy to make, taste delicious and can be used to decorate cakes, puddings and desserts.
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Easy Lemon Drizzle Cake
This tangy lemon cake is so easy to make and its fresh citrus taste is fantastic with morning coffee or afternoon tea!
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Garlic Tart
This savoury tart contains caramelised garlic cloves set in a garlic-flavoured custard in a crisp pasty case and is topped with toasted pinenuts.
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Banoffee Pie
An easy no-cook recipe which brings together the great combination of bananas and caramel, topped with whipped cream on a buttery biscuit base.
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Summer Pudding
This Summer Pudding recipe is a traditional English no-cook dessert which uses seasonal berries including redcurrants, strawberries and raspberries.
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Rum Banana Bread
Rum-soaked raisins give this delicious banana bread an added boost. This is a great way of using up bananas that are past their best!
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Strawberry Balsamic Ice Cream
This delicious ice cream recipe uses balsamic vinegar to enhance the sweetness of the strawberries.
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Slow-cooked Fennel Soup
The aniseed taste of fennel is mellowed by slow cooking in this simple soup which can be made in either vegetarian or vegan variations.
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Roasted Pepper Salad
This vegan recipe showcases the sweet, rich taste of roasted peppers.
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Broad Bean Salad
This salad combines broad beans with tangy feta cheese and spring onions and crunchy radishes.
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Spaghetti with Smoked Salmon
This recipe for Spaghetti with Smoked Salmon takes 10 minutes and is very easy. Perfect for an after-work supper and special enough for a date night!
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Smoked Salmon and Prawn Tart
This savoury tart, filled with tasty prawns and smoked salmon, is so quick and easy.
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Apricot Tart
This beautiful tart combines fresh, seasonal apricots with buttery almond frangipane in a crisp pastry case.
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Cherry Tart
This luscious tart is made with fresh, seasonal cherries set in almond frangipane and encased in crisp pastry,
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White Currant Cake
This cake is a pale and understated beauty with creamy mascarpone icing, a tangy compote filling, and minimal decoration of beautiful opalescent white currants.
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Cold Tomato Soup
This delicious chilled soup showcases the taste of sweet, fresh, seasonal tomatoes.
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Lavender Shortbread
This buttery, crumbly shortbread, delicately flavoured with lavender, is a summer tea-time treat.
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Tomato Tart
This Tomato Tart showcases the beautiful, varied colours and shapes of fresh, sweet tomatoes
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Rose and Raspberry Pavlova
Pretty and pink, this Raspberry Pavlova, has a wonderful rose-flavoured meringue base topped with whipped cream and fresh raspberries.
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Onion Tart
The secret to this luscious tart is to caramelise the onions until they are rich and sweet and season with spicy nutmeg.
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Lemon Verbena Ice-cream
This cooling Lemon Verbena Ice-cream has a lovely lemon flavour with notes of ginger.
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