http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress Cooking - Photography & More Fri, 09 May 2008 07:10:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A box of rare breed English tomatoes... One thing I do enjoy is a decent tomato, preferably home grown and picked straight from the vine when they are still warm from the summer sun and full of natural sugar. I detest force grown Dutch ones, the sort which are a mix of ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes Recreating a Bangkok market in the English Countryside.. This year I am working on two seperate themes for my kitchen garden, half of the garden will be modelled on an Anglo-French vegetable herb garden whilst the areas undercover; the polytunnels, greenhouses and hothouse will be used for Asian vegetables, fruits and ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/growing-asian-herbs Avaliable in a woodland near you... This week sees the arrival of the first hogweed of the year in my kitchen, certainly one of the most unusual foods I have ever come across I feel duty bound to cook it because it is so different. Hogweed is found throughout the British Isles in ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-return-of-the-hogweed It's the taking part that counts, apparently... I've decided to break this down into two (or more) seperate posts in case you didn't read the title. Back in the early to mid nineties I entered a number of national and international professional cookery competitions, most of which I was told to enter ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one Contain yourselves, it's another chilli post... I know what you're thinking, not another chilli story. Well, yes. Because a) there's been an exciting development and b) it's my blog. Before you roll your eyes and click on the weather forecast I should tell you that my chilli posts attract a great deal ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/growing-chillies-part-75 A devastating cyclone hits Myanmar.... A tropical cyclone hit the country of Myanmar (also known as Burma) today which, according to their state run television has taken the lives of some 350 people and injuring many others. Yangon, the city formerly known as Rangoon has been badly hit, house roofs have been blown off ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/cyclone-in-burma This week's winners and losers... A mixed bag this last week or so, some good, some bad. Feel free to add your own: Led Zeppelin: 1. English voters-their first opportunity to tell Brown what they think of it all, and did they! 2. Being able to pay my mortgage and credit card bill every ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-week-in-review Get those sprouts in! It's not easy writing these posts you know, any blogger will tell you that. Everyday I have to think of something to write about, something topical, relevent and, if possible, interesting. So maybe I fail on the latter but topical? definately! You see I know you are ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/growing-winter-vegetables What to do with it! Here's a new one on me, white cardamom. I've used green cardamom for years and it is one of my favourite spices, the black cardamom less so. But white cardamom? I bought some from one of my French speciality suppliers in London this week out of ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/white-cardamom A seasonal food guide to May May is a busy month for me, it's a time when the kitchen garden is ready to take off after a long winter and wet spring. The weather can still be hit and miss, throwing the odd frost at us but food wise we have ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-may