Voyage Around My AGA

This episode we're joined by Sophie Weld-Davies, owner of the successful artisan home fragrance company Made at Milldown, to discuss her business and the secrets of candles.

We also explore food-related books including Scoff by Pen Vegler, The Land Where the Lemons Grow by Helena Attlee and Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them.

Plus, Steve has returned from his campervan holiday with Archie - was it a success?

You can find more details about Made at Milldown on instagram, etsy and at www.madeatmilldown.com

Charlotte's feeling very relaxed after her holiday and considering becoming an HGV driver to help with the global flower shortage - and petrol deliveries! However, Steve's mind is on his first ever campervan holiday with Archie.

The Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink award-winning debut cookbook The Pie Room by Calum Franklin is under review, together with another long-winded story!

And someone is just a little over-excited at Russell T. Davies' return to Doctor Who......

We're back!  In the first episode of Season 3, Charlotte has discovered libraries(!) and getting ready to head off to sunnier climes!  Steve meanwhile has just returned from Scotland and is joined by a special guest, Stephen Dunk, to talk about the North Coast 500 route.

The delightful Dahlia is taking root in Charlotte's Corner whilst Steve has been delving between the covers of a whole range of restaurant cookbooks.

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Voyage Around My AGA returns in two weeks for our third season, with fantastic guests,  cookbook reviews, our usual banter and much, much more.  Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform so that you don't miss an episode.  All episodes from season one and two are available now.

Much excitement in the Voyage Around My AGA kitchen, as the autumn edition of the "catalogue of dreams" arrives..... We also take a closer look at the cookbook voted "the most useful of all time", Simon Hopkinson's Roast Chicken and Other Stories.  Versatile aubergine (or eggplant) is our seasonal ingredient - apparently, it's technically a fruit.  Charlotte orbits around Cosmos and we have a very short, but very useful tip!  All that and Steve rambles on about Doctor Who.

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As ever, thanks for listening and have a great summer.

We're celebrating summer in this episode by revisiting Delia Smith's classic Summer Collection and as the runner bean comes into season, looking at how to get the best out of this summer veg.

Steve has some recommendations on essential kitchen knives and Charlotte explains how versatile mint can be.

We’ve been hit by COVID this episode, with Charlotte isolating due to a positive result, and Steve isolating due to track and trace! 

But the podcast must go on, so despite some technical issues, this week, we rave about Mark Diacono’s new book, Herb: A Cook's Companion.  Charlotte's seasonal ingredient is blueberries, which always reminds Steve of Violet in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

We have an avocado themed tip and in Charlotte's Corner, she highlights the edible Nasturtium. 

Apologies for some of the technical and sound issues, we'll be back to our usual professional slick production values next week (!).  Follow us on facebook and instagram at Voyage Around My AGA, and email us at [email protected]

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Whilst Steve has been channelling his inner Kylie in Jersey, Charlotte has been in the big smoke exploring Constance Spry, and you can hear all about their adventures in this episode!

We also celebrate the influential Madhur Jaffrey CBE - actress, travel and food writer, who brought Indian cuisine to the western hemisphere, including through her 1982 TV series and book Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery.  We stretch the boundaries of seasonal ingredient a little by focusing our attention on fragrance, particularly artisan Somerset based fragrance company, Ffern and New York based Bond No 9.

Charlotte is fascinated by the straight sided stem of Verbena Bonariensis and has a tip-of-the-week that she thinks everyone knows about, but is a welcome revelation for Steve!

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It's felt almost normal again here at Voyage Around My AGA - a trip to the cinema to see the joyous musical film In The Heights and a fun barbeque with friends!  But we've still had time to riffle through our bookshelves and this episode we're going back-to-basics with the classic Complete AGA Cookbook by Mary Berry and Lucy Young plus offering our tips on AGA essential equipment.

Charlotte is looking at different recipes for her home-grown courgettes and  bringing the simple beauty and fragrance of the lovely Sweet Pea into focus.

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We're going down under this episode as Charlotte celebrates the best-selling Australian cookery writer, Donna Hay, and her beautiful book "Modern Baking - cakes, cookies and everything in between".  Steve explores british cheese, highlighting Rollright from King Stone Dairy, Winslade from Hampshire Cheese Company and the Isle of White Cheese Company's Blue.  The pair have some time-saving freezer tips and Charlotte has an interesting story to tell about Foxgloves.

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