Orange Segments, Blueberries and Cinnamon

 Another simple fruit salad, made with orange segments and blueberries, and dressed with single cream and a dusting of ground cinnamon. 

Apple and Mango Fruit Salad

A simple fruit salad made with a cored and diced Pink Lady apple (unpeeled), plus chopped red mango. Dressed in some single cream.
 

Strawberries and Walnuts

 Fabulous strawberry and walnut salad. The strawberries were diced and covered with a few shakes of demarara sugar and a single shake of white pepper. Then placed in the fridge overnight. Decanted to a serving bowl with the juices. The walnut pieces were added, plus a generous coating of single cream. 

Strawberries, Sweet Sherry, and Single Cream

 The strawberries were chopped up to increase their surface area, before being dusted with demerara sugar. Left in the fridge to allow the strawberry juice to come out of the strawberry pieces. Stirred occasionally until all of the sugar was dissolved in the strawberry juice. 

Soused in a little sweet sherry, and then decanted into a bowl of single cream. 

Blueberry and Mixed Nut Salad

 A pretty straightforward fruit and nut salad, and highly nutrititious. Blueberries from the fridge, plus a nut selection from the supermarket. Soused in single cream, and dressed in cinnamon. Delicious!

Blackberries and Diced Plum in Single Cream

 Great fruit salad, quick and easy. You can add pecan nuts if you have them in your larder. 

Fruit Salad, with Chocolate Cake

 A fruit salad of blueberries and raspberries. The chocolate cake was made separately of course. Made with khorasan wheat, oats, yeast, and ground chocolate. Cooked in the oven for about 45 minutes (watch by eye). Allowed to cool, and then diced into small squares. Served with single cream.  A very satisfying dish.

Creamed Chicken and Leek Soup

 Wonderful soup, made with diced leek cooked in rape seed oil for twenty minutes, and half a breast of chicken, diced into small pieces. Cooked in milk and vegetable stock, and then I added single cream to the dish. Cooked for an hour. Delicious!

Strawberries and Cream, plus Bourbon Whisky

 A simple fruit salad made from 500g of fresh British strawberries from the customer counter at the local Co-op (they had a glut). 

The strawberries were soused in a mixture of demerara sugar plus a generous glug of Bourbon whiskey. Allowed to stand in a glass bowl for a couple of hours, stirring together occasionally. Park the bowl in the fridge if you intend to eat the strawberries the next day. 

Add a couple of dashes of finely ground white pepper before serving (the way it is done here). Dress in fresh single cream. Fabulous!

Mango Fruit Salad

Bought from the local co-op as an 'exotic salad'. All I did was add cream to the mix. Delicious!
 

Strawberry and Blueberry Fruit Salad

A fruit salad with diced Scottish strawberries, and blueberries from somewhere, neither of which were doused in sugar or alcohol and marinated in the fridge. Just doused in single cream. It is still early in the season, so those things can wait. Delicious!
 

Blueberry, Banana and Walnut Fruit Salad

A simple fruit salad with blueberries from the fridge, chopped banana, and two handfuls of walnut pieces, in some single cream. Also excellent with Greek style yoghurt.
 

Apple and Mango Fruit Salad

A simple and delicious fruit salad made with fresh slices of Gala apple, chopped mango (yellow and orange), plus black grapes. Kept in the fridge with some demerara sugar for a week, and turned occasionally.

Decanted into a bowl with the juice from the mango pieces, and dressed in some single cream.
 

Clementine segments with Black Grapes

No instructions really necessary here. Clementine segments, black grapes and cream. Add cinnamon if you wish. 

 

Fruit salad, with Clementines, Black Grapes, and mixed nuts

A simple fruit salad made with clementine segments, black grapes, and mixed nuts (in this case walnuts, cashew, almonds). Dressed in single cream (yoghurt will do as well). Fabulous and healthy dish which takes a couple of minutes to make. 

Creamed Ham, Leek and Tomato Soup

Soup made with diced cherry tomatoes, tomato puree, diced leek and diced turnip, plus vegetable and ham stock, plus tomato puree. Cooked for seventy minutes at a low heat under glass. After that I added diced garlic and deseeded red chilli. Plus paprika, oregano, and black pepper. The diced ham went in last, with some red wine and single cream. 

 

Tarragon Chicken in a Cream, Onion and Mushroom Sauce

Chicken breasts roasted in an open casserole dish for 40 minutes at 190 deg C, and then another fifteen minutes lidded. With a little sunflower oil. Dressed in some sea salt. Cooked a mixture of julienned white onions (two), plus five destalked and diced chestnut mushrooms, for twenty minutes in sunflower oil.

Decanted the onion and mushroom into a small pan, and mixed with a couple of dessert spoonfuls of single cream, and a shake of dried tarragon. Lots of freshly ground black pepper. 

Served with green beans boiled in salted water for seven minutes.  

 

Bramley Apple Turnover

Shop bought apple turnover (a treat), served with single cream. Essentially stewed apples and some sugar, folded in light pastry, and cooked in the oven. In addition to the cream, I served this with a dusting of cinnamon, which is a great accompaniment to apples. 

 

Strawberries in Bourbon, with Walnut pieces and Single Cream

A fruit salad, with halved strawberries and Kentucky Bourbon whiskey, plus some white wine (Soave). Allowed to marinate for a few days in the fridge.  Served with walnut pieces and single cream. 

 

Mango, Orange, Grape and Apple Fruit Salad

A simple and delicious fruit salad, made with two colours of mango (white and orange), slices of red and green apple, chopped orange pieces, and purple grapes. 

Served cool, in some single cream.