Summertime

You can tell it's summer (or you think it is) when you make your first batch of home-made ginger beer of the season!

I've got just such a batch percolating in the (currently defrosting) fridge. The raisins are bobbing, the mix is bubbling - oh boy, oh boy, summer's almost here!

Of course ginger beer gets better and better the longer it's left - to a point that is. I wouldn't want to be fired for turning up at work after lunch extra-happy, thanks to a three-week old batch! But a week or so is perfect.

We had our first sips at lunchtime today. OH YEAH, that stuff was good.

Next on our summertime food/drinks list? Nigella's chocolate-chunk pavlova with fresh field-warm strawberries of course! Bring it on!!!