Articles written by Susan Morris

A newly opened rural teahouse in Kippen Stirling is well placed for lunch or afternoon tea following a Wednesday afternoon visit to Gargunnock House.

May 9, 2012 - Susan Morris

The history of how fudge was first made as a mistake during a batch of caramels is well rehearsed. Finding solutions to errors in fudge-making is less so.

Apr 27, 2012 - Susan Morris

Plan ahead for summer recipes by making and storing your own homemade flavored sugars that have all the taste for less cost than buying from the shops.

Mar 26, 2012 - Susan Morris

Observation and experience suggests that there are at least twenty British apple cultivars that do not require cross-pollination to set a reasonable crop.

Mar 1, 2012 - Susan Morris

Chopped wood from winter pruning can be air dried in the garden to provide seasoned wood for open fires and multi-fuel stoves for the next winter season.

Jan 31, 2012 - Susan Morris

Resolve to compost more things at home to reduce local landfill waste. Beyond basic greens and browns of home composting, there are compostable surprises.

Jan 3, 2012 - Susan Morris

Once the basics of making leaf mold are proven in your urban garden or allotment, naturally the next step is to experiment with speed of decomposition.

Dec 30, 2011 - Susan Morris

Kids and families are encouraged to get away from the edge skating on seasonal pop up outdoor ice rinks in some main tourist attractions in England, UK.

Dec 9, 2011 - Susan Morris

Garden Nasturtiums are annual plants offering their leaves, bright flowers and seed buds of their trailing tendrils as culinary herbs from spring to frost.

Nov 17, 2011 - Susan Morris

Planting new apple trees requires knowledge about size, preparation and depth of pit, soil structure, choosing oblique or straight staking and a tree tie.

Nov 17, 2011 - Susan Morris

Nectarine cultivars grow well in deep, well-drained, moisture retentive soils with a pH of around 6.5. Routine tree care includes feeding and mulching.

Nov 11, 2011 - Susan Morris

BBC Good Food Show Scotland 2011 held in Glasgow challenged the best Professional chef against the best Amateur cook in MasterChef cook-off 21 October 2011.

Oct 22, 2011 - Susan Morris

Great British Bake Off first series contestant Ruth Clemens is building her The Pink Whisk website following with an inaugural National Baking Week in 2011.

Oct 20, 2011 - Susan Morris

When baking bread by hand, even with proofing and kneading practice, the bread can sometimes look imperfect. Fault diagnosis improves breadmaking by hand.

Sep 26, 2011 - Susan Morris

Bursting with flavor intensity, micro herbs and micro greens are relatively easy to grow on your own. Growing at home gives micro supplies for family meals.

Sep 26, 2011 - Susan Morris

Older entrepreneurship strengthens the labour market and increases economic productivity. Research dispels misconception of business start ups after 50.

Sep 22, 2011 - Susan Morris

Underutilized land can be transformed into a community garden with resources and political will. Evidence of health benefits are important in making a case.

Sep 20, 2011 - Susan Morris

Biofuel production has developed within existing industrial infrastructure. Industrial applications and technology are mature although there are barriers.

Sep 20, 2011 - Susan Morris

Appraisal of all potential fuel sources is essential given the increasing global demand for finite oil and natural gas reserves and energy security issues

Sep 19, 2011 - Susan Morris

Scottish food writer Sue Lawrence promises delicious home cooking to enjoy all year round in her new book Eating In, published by Hachette Scotland (2011).

Sep 17, 2011 - Susan Morris

A productive plum tree does not mean food waste. Plums and other fruit do not contain starch so they can be preserved easily into sterilised jars or frozen.

Sep 16, 2011 - Susan Morris

Sage used in human experiments has improved mood, cognition and memory. Trials have confirmed the benefits of sage for Alzheimer's disease and pharyngitis.

Jul 20, 2011 - Susan Morris

Clematis offer early-flowering, early,large-flowered and late-flowering species and cultivars. Clematis is a pretty vigorous climber for south-facing wall.

Jul 17, 2011 - Susan Morris

New psychology research has found that touch on the arm enhances the brain's response to emotional stimuli. Persuasive effects of touching are discovered.

Jul 12, 2011 - Susan Morris

Knowledge of physiology and normal activity of the brain are good start for understanding psychological explanations of behavioural change and differences.

Jul 11, 2011 - Susan Morris

Parkinson's disease is characterised as a disorder of movement control. Effects of caffeine on locomotor activity could be helpful in four main ways.

Jul 10, 2011 - Susan Morris

Discovery of new antimicrobial agents is essential for sustainable treatment of resistant bacteria. Manuka honey is being explored by microbiology research.

Jul 9, 2011 - Susan Morris

Author of Jekka's Complete Herb Book, Jekka McVicar presented a rereleased book on cooking with flowers in 2003. Here's a dip into the coverage and currency of the book.

Apr 23, 2009 - Susan Morris

Two ways of preserving elderflower, as syrup and sugar, will enable seasonal cooks to add floral flavouring to baking or making dressings for summer salads.

Apr 22, 2009 - Susan Morris

Native cowslips produce bright yellow nectar-rich flowers from early spring that can be added to edible flowers spring salads and preserved in sugar, syrup and vinegar.

Apr 22, 2009 - Susan Morris

Views of nature from windows improves health for some people in some places. Landscaping trees in the built environment is one way of ensuring more contact with nature.

Apr 21, 2009 - Susan Morris

Being ace at an internship and training at botanic gardens or arboreta can lead to successful appointments in horticultural therapy practice and therapeutic horticulture.

Apr 18, 2009 - Susan Morris

Safe and successful sessions in greenhouses and polytunnels, at the raised beds and other outdoor garden areas is at the heart of a community garden project.

Apr 17, 2009 - Susan Morris

Same garden space can produce more veg with some planning and intensive planting methods. Grow more vegetables from small garden space or expand using raised bed system.

Apr 17, 2009 - Susan Morris

Month of July can be the peak of a northern summer. Full of seasonal fruit and vegetable choices, July brings catch of the day, meat, game & poultry in season.

Apr 12, 2009 - Susan Morris

British produce for eating in season in the Springtime months March April and May includes loads of veggies, seafood, meat, game and poultry plus some fruit choices.

Apr 11, 2009 - Susan Morris

Promoting local food, new recipes and top chefs, the Great British Menu cookbook sets out its what's in season when for British produce. Here's a lowdown on June foods.

Apr 8, 2009 - Susan Morris

Identifying the tallest trees of New Zealand, in the North Island and South Island, needs to focus on leaves, flowers and fruit plus the estimated height of tall tree.

Apr 8, 2009 - Susan Morris

Reading "this product may contain lead shot" on food labelling of small hen pheasant in a farm shop, it's clear how the pheasants are despatched from field for the fork.

Apr 2, 2009 - Susan Morris

Largest containers for growing vegetables are raised beds. Specially built for vegetable gardening, a raised soil bed has advantages over open ground when growing peas.

Apr 2, 2009 - Susan Morris

Festival of Running offers guaranteed places in Loch Ness Marathon 4 October 2009, first come first served until 1 May 2009, to 'Run Home' in Year of Homecoming 2009.

Apr 1, 2009 - Susan Morris

Pectin is the nature 'glue' in plants that is what makes fruit jam set. Avoid disappointment when making fruit preserves by knowing the basic pectin content of fruits.

Mar 31, 2009 - Susan Morris

Making jam can involve plenty of fresh fruit and sugar, a large saucepan, wooden spoon, saucer and a rack of sterilised jars. Super jam comes from using kitchen gadgets.

Mar 30, 2009 - Susan Morris

Cooks willing to prepare red gurnard, increasing in popularity as a conservationist's white fish, may like to cook up a seafood casserole using red gurnard with prawns.

Mar 23, 2009 - Susan Morris

Knowing how to test for setting point is crucial in the science and art of making jams, jellies and marmalades.

Mar 22, 2009 - Susan Morris

Loganberries harvested as just ripe fruits can make a well-set jam without extras like lemon juice or pectin.

Mar 21, 2009 - Susan Morris

Elder trees, growing all over the United States, western Asia and Europe, produce indigo black small berry fruits around early autumn that preserve successfully as jelly.

Mar 20, 2009 - Susan Morris

Covering rhubarb crowns with a pot over the colder months is at the heart of 'forcing' rhubarb. Forcing rhubarb produces earlier stems that are tender and sweeter to eat.

Mar 19, 2009 - Susan Morris

Cold sweet dishes Rhubarb Shape and Rhubarb Jelly, recipes from 1930, can use up generous quantities of forced rhubarb from late spring and into early summer.

Mar 18, 2009 - Susan Morris

An abundant summer supply of garden peas are cooked up as a soup, supper and a side dish with loads of fresh garden herbs including basil, flat-leaf parsley and mint.

Mar 11, 2009 - Susan Morris