Mildred's Kitchen

Food in season: December

By: Mil December 1, 2020October 17, 2019

Seasonal food, WinterBrussels sprouts, Christmas, Clementines, Cranberries, Goose, Seasonal food, Seasonality, TurkeyLeave a Comment

It’s Chriiiiiiissstmaaassss. Roy Wood, Wizzard And so our year of seasonal food must come to an end. But not, may I add, without talking about its final month. Now, Christmas being Christmas, December’s ingredients have something of a festive feeling to them: turkey, goose, brussels sprouts, clementines and cranberries all feature. However, I would like…

Food in season: November

By: Mil November 1, 2020October 12, 2020

Autumn, Seasonal foodDuck, Game, Seasonal food, Seasonality, WineLeave a Comment

November is the month of my Mum’s birthday. This has always given us an good excuse for particularly excellent food, and with my parents’ wine shop usually giving its annual winter wine tasting, it’s also a pretty good opportunity for some lovely wine. Unfortunately the wine tasting won’t be happening this year due to COVID,…

Poached chicken with sesame pak choi

By: Mil October 6, 2020October 2, 2020

Autumn, Main courses, Meat and game, RecipesChicken, Chicken breast, Easy recipes, Food blog, Food writing, Healthy eating, Pak Choi, Poached chicken, Recipes1 Comment

And so the seasons have turned. Despite a last minute heatwave, Autumn has arrived in Germany signalling itself with the yellowing leaves on the tree in my courtyard. This time of year always feels a bit like coming home. There’s the relief of drizzle after the hot weather and a back-to-school newness that year after…

Food in season: October

By: Mil October 1, 2020September 27, 2020

Autumn, Seasonal foodHalloween, Pumpkin, Seasonal food, SeasonalityLeave a Comment

The chill has set in and its time for darkness and spooks and pumpkins. Ever wonder why, out of all the vegetables, people carve pumpkins for halloween? It’s pretty simple really – they’re in season and readily available, which was important back in the day when food wasn’t so easily shipped across borders. Parsnips and…

Food in season: September

By: Mil September 1, 2020September 16, 2020

Autumn, Seasonal foodGame, Kale, Pheasant, Seasonal food, SeasonalityLeave a Comment

Back to school we go. A sense of newness always arrives in September at the beginning of Autumn, and the ingredients in season are just the same. We see the beginnings of dark leafy greens like kale and leeks, the colder water fish and shellfish return, including pollock and razor clams, and autumnal favourites move…

Cherry tomato sourdough toasts with crispy capers

It is hot. Hot hot hot, which can only mean one thing. Fruit everywhere is ripening. Our scotch bonnets are turning egg yolk yellow on the windowsill and my parents have begun to harvest figs – not from Italy or Spain, but propped up against a sunny wall in the East of England. There’s one…

Food in season: August

By: Mil August 1, 2020August 11, 2020

Seasonal food, SummerAugust, BBQ, Eat the seasons, Eating seasonally, Seasonal eating, Seasonal food, Seasonality, Summer, summer food, SweetcornLeave a Comment

And so the seasons begin to think about changing again. It’s difficult to imagine with the constant reel of summer BBQs and days spent by the lake (depending on your corona situation of course), but the food never lies and with sweetcorn, damsons and elderberries coming into season things are starting to get, dare I…

Free downloadable seasonal fruit and veg guide

I go on a fair amount about seasonal food. Every month I let you know what will be in season and that’s because it’s the way I plan what I eat, how I shop and ultimately what ends up on my plate. Eating food that’s in season means that ingredients taste better, that there’s less…

Easy cheese straws

Some people might call this cheating. Those people might be right, but I don’t see anything wrong with that from time to time. Picture this: it’s a balmy summer’s evening, maybe a Friday night. You’re sat in your garden or on your balcony, or maybe the window is wide open allowing you to bask in…

Gravlax on buttermilk and spring onion pancakes

Gravlax with savoury buttermilk pancakes and dill cream cheese

I used to have gravlax twice a year, once at Christmas and once in the summer. At Christmas it was, and still is, served side by side with home-smoked salmon, mayonnaise laced with sweet mustard sauce and fresh herbs as a starter before Christmas lunch. In the summer it would usually mark a weekend of…