Eating simply?

Something of a shock to realise that the last three posts were about fried food. OK healthy eating starts this week!  In the meantime (and to brighten up this otherwise brown set of photographs on the blog so far!), here is a culinary going-on in the garden today.

Quince (Cydonia oblonga)

The quince is so pretty isn't it? Give it a few months and it will be laden with big fat yellow pomes, and I'll have to try making some quince jelly. I made quince paste a couple of years ago, and that was great (but somewhat dangerous—it was like cooking lava!), and last year we stewed them up with the pears from the neighbouring pear tree. This year I think jelly is on order. I won't repeat the quince paste recipe here as it was a few years ago now and I can't really remember what I did. Stephanie Alexander's Cook's Companion would be a good place to start.