A sneaky pre-Christmas taste of this year’s vin d’orange! Very sweet and ready, but l can wait, I think!
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DECEMBER 3: Orange and clove pomanders offer warming, spicy scents
Add some warm spicy scents to your home with this simple to make orange pomander and fill your house with citrus and cloves.
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DECEMBER 2: Clementine Zing for Pastry
A quick Christmas cooking tip … grate some clementine or tangerine zest into your mince pie pastry for extra zing 🙂
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DECEMBER 1: Making yours a Cracking Citrussy Christmas
Join us here at The Lemon Grove as we countdown to Christmas with our citrus advent calendar!
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NIGHT-TIME HARVESTING AT MONTCALM
There’s a sign by a small field surrounded by vines being baked by the hot summer sun of southern France, that reads … ‘You are welcome to camp here, but be warned, we harvest at night!’ The sign can be found at the organic vineyard Domaine de Montcalm found just to the west of the iconic Camague national park in southern France.
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GOAT HERDING FOR SEASONAL CHEESE
Gazelle. “That one over there,” says Renato Maunero, “she’s called Gazelle.” He was pointing to a nanny goat struggling to keep up with the rest of the 70 or strong herd and they grazed their way through a glade in the fields just south of the Piemonte hilltop towns of Cherasco and La Morra in […]
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TINY TABLE OFFERS BIG HOSPITALITY
Masterchef winner and chef Julie Friend has opened her garden for up to six guests to enjoy delicious food in beautiful countryside
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EAT TING better with South African flavours
South African cuisine is diverse, unique, and delicious. Influenced by centuries of migration and colonisation, many of its flavours originate from such places as Malaysia, India, France and The Netherlands but has more recently been diluted by cheap, highly processed, junk food that offers people little in the way of healthier, better eating choices. It’s […]
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Honey, I’m bee whispering in Lombardy
High up in the hills of Lombardy, south of Milan, are 400 bee hives dotted around fields, woodlands and edging vineyards. They belong to siblings Michela and Paolo who for the past ten years have created a life in the countryside of Lombardy in northern Italy looking after bees, showing a sincere love and caring […]
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Bitter orange flowers offer sweet flavours
High above the Mediterranean Sea in Vallebona, an ancient town in the Italian province of Liguria, lies a grove of bitter orange trees. Family run, the La Vecchia Distilleria grove is developing a reputation for high quality orange water known as Acqua di Fiori d’Arancio Amaro and for a limited production of neroli, an essential […]
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