Watercress days

It's delicious, which I suspect you already know and, like me, you've been eating this lovely green and peppery salad leaf plant for years?

No, really no?  Well then you should, because it's good for you and your body.  Apparently, it contains a higher percentage of vitamin C than oranges and provides the body with calcium and iron.

And  what's more, it really does taste delicious, just as it is on its own, in a salad, as a separate item with a meal where it provides a lift to a simple meal and refreshes the palette, and it makes the most delicious soup on its own or even mixed with other vegetable items, such as, potatoes and, according to the television programme last night, tastes good mixed with peas for a different mix.

The TV programme on traditional British food covered such items strawberries and watercress last night and featured top British chefs discussing the good things about these two items and why they should be eaten, and more often and how we should ask for our chosen favourite (for strawberries), and for the watercress, how sales have fallen dramatically - I mean, we are simply eating less and if we are not careful, we could lose this splendid item altogether from our food choice.

Watercress is grown at Arlesford in Hampshire, where the Watercress Line train service chuffs to and fro, in a very attractive part of the countryside, feeding passengers with scrumptious food, including their special watercress soup recipe.

The journeys are a delight for adult and child alike and I remember my children thoroughly enjoying our time on the train, many years ago.

So, eat up your watercress, please do, for its an ancient product which deserves to be saved from extinction.

And it's very readily y available in supermarkets everywhere!

I've had a really good day today, organising things, doing lots of painting and then cooking a jolly nice pork casserole - mmmmmmm yummy.

And more painting tomorrow but, I also have a birthday cake to bake for my sister and I shall cover it with chocolate Ganache for Saturday.  And me oh my, Saturday is going to be very busy for we have an auction to attend, the Korean GP will be sorting out pole positions for Sunday, and I shall be visiting my sister with her gorgeous birthday cake.

Life's good, hey?

Daisy