Drawing hares with wings, painting mice with chains around their necks, walking dogs to a soundtrack of skylarks, watching swallows low across the fields and cooking a chicken with mustard and lemon and white wine, red onions and potatoes.
My nursery rhyme book from when I was young.
What is andlemon?
ReplyDeleteI had this book too, I loved it. Just looking at the illustrations takes me back (I used to pour over them for hours and hours and they're completely ingrained). Wouldn't it be fabulous to know your illustrations will do the same for someone else in years to come?
ReplyDeleteIt's a long time since you recommended a recipe. Where can I find the chicken with mustard and lemon - or is it a Jackie Morris original? Looking at the cats, I notice that our tabby, Byron, seems to have joined your ginger gang! Byron's tummy has the same leopard spots and caramel coloured fur!
ReplyDeleteFiona, I would like to say that 'andlemon' was a rare, wild food only found in Wales in May, but in reality it is my fingers running away with me on the keyboard and was only an ordinary lemon that had run into the word 'and'.
ReplyDeleteI hope children will fall in love with my nursery rhyme book as I did with mine. I am amazed at how many are just weaving away still in my mind, ingrained from years and years of remembering.
oh, and lizzie, the chicken is from Falling Cloudberries, and so very easy that you can cook it and paint. Takes 2 hours to cook and smells delicious. Next time I cook it I will take photos and put the recipe up, but the book is a wonderful one, to read and look at and cook from.
ReplyDeleteHave the cats started a yoga class I wondered. Love that chicken recipe too(and the Tessa Kiros books).
ReplyDeleteThe cats look as though they have found the catnip--utterly out of their skulls.
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