Saffron Strands

Cucumber Salad 'Cool as a cucumber' (idiom) - calm, self-possessed, imperturbable, unruffled.  This most definitely does no...

Cherries & green almonds The first English cherries have arrived with early varieties Inga and Merchant making an appearance at ma...

Nacka Strand, Stockholm, around midnight early July It took me a few hours to get my bearings on my first visit to Stockholm.  Spread ...

Gooseberry Polenta Cake I have a taste for tart things.  Seeing a scattering of sacrificial fruits around the base of my green gooseb...

Elderflower Lemon & Lime It's the scent of muscat grapes which attracts me to elderflower.  Leave it too late in the season ...