Food Recipes – Laetitia Maklouf

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Enough with the rain already!

May 9, 2012 – 2:30 pm

Here are some edible flowers … eye food as much as tummy food, and an antidote to this chilly rain… Lilac is one of my favourite velvety petal foods. Fling it in salads or on top of a cake. …but there is also sweet cicely …and forgetmenots (of which I have an embarrassment) … [...]

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Sweet violets for a heady concoction

March 17, 2012 – 8:26 pm

The lovely thing about mothers is that they love you … whatever. This year, mine will get this: I used to grow all my sweet violets in pots when I only had a balcony to play with, and one of the first things I ever did when I got to my new garden was to [...]

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Something to soothe

March 1, 2012 – 11:05 am

Never parTICularly been one for an ‘erbal infusion’ (unless it’s lemon verbena or peppermint) I’m far more likely to munch leaves or a flower in a salad… or cover it with sugar and put it on a cake… … but stuff’s wee bit stressy at the moment, and I went out to pick [...]

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A father’s day cake

June 24, 2011 – 1:03 pm

The Hunk is one of those people who appreciatively wolfs down anything you put infront of him – it’s one of the (many) things I love about him. So when I placed the pelargonium flowers on top of this cake and it looked unspeakably girly, I knew it wouldn’t matter a bit. Sure enough, when [...]

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Chutney stuff and nonsense

September 11, 2010 – 8:43 am

I’ve been having a chutney-making fest – it’s my first time (don’t know what took me so long) – and I realise that all this time I’ve had this weird prejudice, putting home-made chutney together in my head with people like this this -very odd really, because I’ve always devoured it… There’s a generosity about making [...]

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Lemon Verbena Ice-Cream

September 3, 2010 – 1:39 pm

A bowlful of summer… I’ve been growing lemon verbena in pots from my very first year of gardening. I love it, mostly just to brush past, having as it does the most lemony of lemon scents that exist in all the whole wide world. It’s wonderfully obliging as a plant – you just put it [...]

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This is just to say…

July 21, 2010 – 9:22 am

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold William Carlos Williams We have an embarrassment of plums. They are juicy and sweet… and after eating far too many, I immediately wanted more, but baked, and [...]

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Sweet Cicely for Custard

May 16, 2010 – 7:06 pm

Shhhh! – The Hunk absolutely hates custard so I’ve had to do this in secret – It won’t be difficult to keep it a secret because I think it’ll all be gone soon (this stuff is sluttily drinkable). I inherited two large clumps of Sweet cicely when I moved here in February this year. Its [...]

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Sweet Lilacs

April 28, 2010 – 1:03 pm

I’ve been totally inspired by all the lilacs bursting open this week – …like so many silky pompoms opening up to scent my never-ending ‘pram outings’… My own recently planted lilac (Syringa ‘Lochinch’) is putting on growth and budding beautifully but there isn’t anything to pick yet, …so yesterday I swiped these from my mum’s [...]

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Basil smugness

April 23, 2010 – 8:26 pm

The Hunk decided we had to christen his new barbecue tonight. Please note that I had no part in the barbecue buying bonanza…it just arrived at the door one day, in a huge hulking box, to add to the plethora of hulking boxes (still un-packed) we already have in our sitting room. Furious, I called [...]