Author Archive: My Kitchen Wand

Summer desserts… fresh fruits, iced creams and all things light and refreshing. A fool is a quick and easy end to a summer dinner, usually made from the slightly tangy fruits readily available in England, rhubarb, fresh currants or gooseberries. I love rhubarb and was thrilled when Marks & Sparks ( sorry Spencer ) ventured […]

I spent a lovely hour in Jean’s garden Monday. It was delight filled to sit and feel the sun and the wind, hear the birds and the bees and see all the local flora dong their thing after collecting some pictures to show you what in happening to the herbs we have already covered. The […]

The comfrey in Jean’s garden is coming along quickly. Soon the stems which hold the blooms will rise up amongst the leaves adding colourful flowers to the blooming landscape. Comfrey flowers come in shades ranging from white through to purple. This nitrogen loving member of the borage family lives best in moist soil. Some varieties […]

It was a dark and stormy night…well, no it wasn’t…. More like a gray, cold and rainy Sunday afternoon and I had bananas in need of being used up. Bananas have a long list of health benefits that I am not going to go into here but if you would like more information check this […]

We covered Lovage last week, so I thought I would start by showing off what warmer weather and sun has done in a week, a good eight inches. The chives in the back are almost ready to flower which will make for lovely purple flower garnishes along with the dandelion petals on the left. Our […]

Beltane welcomes in the light side of the wheel and so foods and beverages tend to also become lighter in taste. Hot red wine grogs and toddies give way to Dandelion wine, punches, white grape juice and May Wine. May wine is an infused white wine, traditionally made with Sweet Woodruff. It was just starting […]

As the light from the morning sun begins to reduce the darkness on the first day of May,  people in times past, would gather near Norfolk, England and on the beacon hills along the Michael Leyline which runs southwest to the tip of Cornwall. They would wait until the first tiny sliver of the sun […]

I was treated with a lovely tour through Jean’s garden the other day. ( I had been by myself for last week’s post ) The garlic are happily doing their thing, all 800 plus and moving the stones to between the beds is almost finished. There are trillium, rhodo’s and flowering blackberries in bloom.The Solomon’s […]

Happy Earth Day Everyone! Here are three more suggestions for celebrating, today or any other day. As mentioned yesterday Earth Day is about a world view as much as it is about April 22. 4. Nature Crafts There are many ways to support the natural wildlife and the bees that keep our harvests healthy. A […]

I know that you know Earth Day is a world view not a day of the year but having a special time to remember to remember is good too so here are six things that you could do with family and friends to refocus the choices we make the rest of the year, three today […]