One has to be patient when growing asparagus; it’s a true slow food.   Having grown up in a remote mediterranean climate, we have always regarded asparagus as the ultimate luxury

I detest supermarket pasta sauces - to me they taste artificial.  I don’t like passata either, which is too sweet.  If needs must, I’d rather make a quick sauce from

A lush pasture, sheep grazing or resting in the shade of a tree or hedge, rambunctious lambs playing – it’s the pastural idyll so many of us believe the English