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About lardersaga

Joanna Preston is mother of the 'little people', 1 pink and 1 blue, and wife to saintly Mr.Patience! After a decade dedicated to cooking for others (Alps, Africa and founding 'Sugar & Spice') my attention is now solely in the home kitchen. We are a food obsessed family that adore growing, sourcing and cooking delectable feasts for friends and family!

Darling Buds of May

Posted on May 16, 2013 by lardersaga

Check out the irony here. I am heading off to South West France to cook for a client over the next Bank Holiday weekend. It’s an amazing adventure and one I have been part off for the last 10 years … Continue reading →

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Crumbs

Posted on May 8, 2013 by lardersaga

Hoorah hoorah a bank holiday weekend filled with sunshine, laughter and lots of time outside. A few toddler battles with the ‘blue’ one, mainly about leaving the farm, ‘London’s boring’ he roars. Really, I mean how can London can possibly … Continue reading →

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Nettles

Posted on April 19, 2013 by lardersaga

It will come of no surprise to anyone who lives in our green and pleasant land, that the only thing growing with any vigour, after our dubious Spring, are Nettles! I don’t know why they don’t get better press, obviously … Continue reading →

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Fat Witch Bakery and a scone!

Posted on April 15, 2013 by lardersaga

What a great name for a bakery. I had never heard of it before last week when Mr.P returned from NY baring gifts of brownies – which had been charmingly left on his pillow in some Soho hotel. Intrigued by … Continue reading →

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A year on and back to Bembridge

Posted on April 5, 2013 by lardersaga

Unbelievably ‘lardersaga’ is a year old. Sometime in March 2012 I scrambled around some alien software, floundered, cursed, and finally set up this blog with wordpress. I then failed to write anything for a month, not really sure where to … Continue reading →

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Hot cross Mummy

Posted on March 26, 2013 by lardersaga

Poor little lambs. They all arrived (that is all 6 of them) earlier than usual under the illusion that spring was around the corner. How wrong could they be. It has been snowing on and off here for 2 weeks, … Continue reading →

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Lottery in the Larder – chocolate brownies version 2!

Posted on March 18, 2013 by lardersaga

How many versions of brownies are there? Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds is my guess. Nuts, no nuts, flour, gluten free, dark, milk, fruit, you name it, somewhere there will be a recipe. I am pretty dull and stick rather … Continue reading →

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Eating in the Dolomites

Posted on March 8, 2013 by lardersaga

I agree, slightly random choice, quite a good little secret and maybe I should keep it that way, but my better nature couldn’t resist sharing this little discovery. I am not sure what possessed Mr.P to divorce Courchevel, maybe he … Continue reading →

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Food Envy

Posted on March 1, 2013 by lardersaga

Food envy is a funny old thing. Being a greedy person I suffer badly. Eating out poses a real dilemma. I constantly look around surveying what everyone else is eating, torn between choosing the familiar or going for the wild … Continue reading →

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Purple Sprouting Brocolli

Posted on February 21, 2013 by lardersaga

‘February’, it’s a pretty bleak month out there in the vegetable patch and particularly mine where the sole survivors of our rather random, extremely wet and at times, cold winter, is some dog-eared rainbow chard. Thankfully the local farm shop … Continue reading →

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