Name: Apples, Potatoes, and Bacon
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 450g potatoes (about 2 large); 6 juniper berries; 2 large apples; 30g (2 tablespoons) butter; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 6 rashers smoked back bacon; A small handful parsley, chopped; 150ml (2/3 cup) crème fraîche; 1–2 teaspoons grain mustard

Sauted apples topped with seared bacon and drizzled with a creamy sauce.

Photo by Jonathan Lovekin

No matter how vast your umbrella, how tight the strings on your hood, rain is probably best observed from indoors. Listening to the rain is entrancing. I recommend taking a minute or two, eyes closed, totally still, just to listen. It is a sound that refreshes the soul.

Dinner is a fry-up, of sorts. The smell of apples and smoked bacon frying on a damp day brings everyone into the kitchen, plate in hand.

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