Posted in grow your own food, house and home, recipes, tagged celeriac, damp, soup, vegetables on 31 January 2008 | No Comments »
Soup weather again., or still, as we have homemade soup for lunch at least three times a week. Its healthy, it’s cheap, it’s tasty, it’s easy.
Today was celeriac and stilton soup. Really easy to put together, yet different. I love celeriac, but managed to fail to grow them last year. They germinated ok, I planted them [...]
Posted in books, frugal living, grow your own food, make it yourself, recipes, self-sufficiency, tagged home brew, homebrew, wine on 30 January 2008 | No Comments »
When we harvested our parsnips , we pulled a number that were small and weedy (I should do more thinning), and decided to make parsnip wine.
I looked it up in my two homebrew books, and I got excited about one recipe in ‘Fruity Passions’ , which involved saving the water every time you cooked parsnips for [...]
Posted in recipes, tagged bubble and squeak, left-overs on 29 January 2008 | No Comments »
Which one is bubble and which is squeak? I always assumed the cabbage was the squeak. Anyway, my previous post bubble and squeak - ultimate comfort food has attracted a lot of interest, so have now put the recipe, such that it is, on the main colour it green website.
Yesterday, I tried a variation, having [...]
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, tagged chickens, eggs on 29 January 2008 | No Comments »
well one of them, the good old buff leghorn again, not only was it a white egg, but she was missing when I went in to check their food and water.. Hope this is the start of eggs again anyway.
Posted in being greener, books, livestock, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, tagged fleece, scouring, sheep, spinning on 28 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last summer we went on a day course from the woolly shepherd on how to process your fleece. We learnt how to scour (wash) the fleece, dye it, card it and peg loom it. We also had a go with drop spindles and a spinning wheel. It was a lot of fun, and also very [...]
Posted in house and home, livestock, tagged coppicing, hedges, hedging on 27 January 2008 | No Comments »
Beautiful sunny day, even warm outside. Again we spent the whole day out there, including having our lunch. So nice to dry washing outside again too.
Today we tackled yet more of the hedging. The hedges around our fields, an in particular the one that is entirely ours, not bound by neighbours, have been badly neglected. [...]
Posted in grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, tagged pruning, sowing on 26 January 2008 | No Comments »
that strange glowing orange ball in the sky thing came out today. Did not recognise it. Funny how a little sunshine makes everything seem different.
Tidied up some of the mess left over from wall removal/ reconstruction and ended up chatting away to a number of neighbours.. not seem much of them during the rain..
We wrote [...]
Posted in general wittering, recipes, tagged Burns night, haggis on 25 January 2008 | No Comments »
tattied too. Happy Burns night.
I am obliged to celebrate my Scottish ancestry. As it goes I also have Welsh, English and Irish blood, so have to do a lot of celebrating various festivals. Such is life!
We shared a haggis with friends, who provided the tatties and neeps. yum. Followed by shortbread and gaelic coffee. I [...]
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