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Some of our favourite seasonal settings can be found below.
Seasonal Food and Flora
Here are some of our favourite seasonal recipes.
Pumpkin Tarts with Salted Caramel Nuts
If you love all things pumpkin, add these elegant tarts to your baking repertoire. The crisp pastry shell contains a decadently smooth pumpkin filling and the salted caramel nuts add a marvellous layer of additional flavour. Pumpkin Tarts with Caramel Salted Nuts... read more
Herbed Goat Cheese Crostini with Caramelized Peppers
Easy to whip up and not too filling, this colourful appetizer is a crowd pleaser. Perfect for a little nosh before dinner. Herbed Goat Cheese Crostini with Caramelized Peppers 2018-09-08 03:49:54 Yields 24 A quick and savoury appetizer with silky caramelized... read more
Gingerbread Muffins
Spicy gingerbread meets breakfast fare; a moist, flavorful muffin that warms the cockles of your tummy. Gingerbread muffins 2018-09-24 03:33:38 Yields 12 A moist and spicy muffin to warm your tummy on cold mornings. Write a review Save Recipe... read more
Flowers & Cupcakes – Behind the Scenes at a Fall Wedding
A floral and pastry extravaganza. Twelve centrepieces, ninety-six cupcakes and one Naked Carrot Cake Wedding Topper. It all started a year ago when my very close friend and former neighbour, Yvonne, asked me if I would do the flowers for her daughter’s wedding.... read more
Mushroom Strudel
The humble, earthy mushroom takes on a deeply savoury flavour and meaty texture when sauteed in olive oil and butter. Add a touch of garlic, fresh thyme and Italian parsley and enrobe in flaky puff pastry braided to form an elegant strudel. Voilà . A chic appetizer or... read more
Sweet Bread with Raisins & Candied Citrus
I have a terrible weakness for sweet bread. Not the sticky-sweet-cinnamon-roll kind, but the yeasty, nectarous confections the French call Viennoiserie. They’re near-pastry but not quite; they beckon as croissant, pain au chocolat, panettone and other... read moreEntertablement Abroad
Enjoy our travel journal of castles, cathedrals, country houses, wonderful tableware and delicious meals.
Entertablement Abroad: Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds is a gorgeous little market town in Suffolk, East Anglia with a very colourful history. Originally called Beodericsworth (I’m so glad language has evolved, aren’t you?), the Bury part is a derivation of borough though, given... read more
Entertablement Abroad: Southwark Cathedral
With its southeast corner a mere 18 metres from the main railway viaduct connecting London Bridge station to Blackfriars, Cannon Street and Charing Cross stations, one has to concede that Southwark Cathedral is smack dab in the middle of the bustling activity that... read more
Entertablement Abroad: Borough Market, London
How many food markets have enjoyed their own millennial celebration? As in, one for their thousand-year history? Back in the day, when the Danes were enthusiastically sacking England, the Anglo-Saxon King Ethelred the Unready still had a few tricks up his... read more
Sunsets & Tides Wait for No One
Tides are the rhythm of the seaside. When we’re in the Cape, the hour of low tide is sacrosanct. That’s when we take an hour-long barefoot walk along the hard sand, the waves rolling over our feet. Each day provides two shots at it, as the ocean... read more
Entertablement Abroad – Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
If a thousand-year-old manor house could possibly be described as comfortable, Haddon Hall would fit the bill. Its history is mild; little violence, no Cromwellian slighting, just a Ducal manor passing gently down the centuries accompanied by only a bit of skirmishing... read more
Entertablement Abroad: Dyrham Park
Dyrham Park is a beautiful baroque English manor house just outside of the town of Bath in Somerset. You may recognize the house from its appearance in The Remains of the Day starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. On a previous visit to Bath, we kept driving... read more© Entertablement 2017 – All Rights Reserved
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