January may be a slow, cold month but it does have one brilliant, sunny saving grace.... it is Seville orange season! I love the annual rythm that comes with kitchen rituals and for me January is all about making marmalade. I adore the bitterness of seville oranges, I like my marmalade tangy and the colour of glowing amber.
Japanese woodblock by Yoshiko Yamamoto
Just seeing the oranges in the markets, at the greengrocers' fills me with a promise of warm summer sunshine, still far away..........
So here is my bowl of Sevilles, lets get started!
I use Delia's recipe from "How to Cook 2" it has never failed me~ now whilst that is bubbling away for the next couple of hours what shall we do?
I should really deal with the post on the kitchen table, or crack on with that pile of ironing...yawn!
Actually I think I will show you the bowl that the oranges were in as I love it and I thought you might like a closer look too! It came from MIL and is a real favourite of mine.
Oh and I am really enjoying these tulips, I love it when they are almost over and they reveal their centres, hmm I spy the current edition of you know what! well perhaps just 5 minutes?
Much later
Yum, yum......sunshine on toast!Hope you are all having a lovely weekend?
Sarah x
