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Habas con  Jam ó n     (Broad beans with serrano ham) The following recipe uses Spanish serrano ham - cured, air-dried Spanish ham ( p...

  Fūl  midammis   -    Middle Eastern dish using dried fava beans Ful medames (Mudammas)  is a spiced fava   bean  “stew” often eaten ...

Broad beans - they're my faves! (Thanks to Caroline Bull for the headline pun) Broad beans did not feature in my childhood di...

Life on the Weald, June 2018  June is very much a month for harvesting with an opportunity to make some late sowings. We have had se...

Life on the Weald, May 2018   One of the  consequences  of living by the sea is that children, grandchildren and the wider family and fri...