so I rashly set some goals – how did we do.. maintain everything we have already set up yup! we grew lots of veg and have freezers bursting to prove it, egg sales have been better than ever and we have sold surplus pullets. We have kept the sheep chickens ducks and turkeys alive (or [...]
Archive for December, 2011
those goals for 2011..
Posted in general wittering on 31 December 2011 | 1 Comment »
last recipes of the year
Posted in recipes on 30 December 2011 | 1 Comment »
Wah! how did it get to be the 30th already? seems only yesterday I was saying how we had all this time off together… it seems to have slipped away. Yesterday we had turkey curry. I did point out to my men that we didn’t have to, since we had eaten turkey breast since Christmas [...]
foodie gifts
Posted in recipes on 29 December 2011 | 6 Comments »
We enjoy the festive feeling of making food gifts, and the bonus is we get to keep some for ourselves too! This year we made fudge, and peanut brittle and peanut butter fudge again. New things we tried are cherry brandy truffles. Prunes in port (good with cheese and cold meat etc), really simple – just pile [...]
festivities
Posted in general wittering on 27 December 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I hope you had a nice time celebrating whatever you celebrate – We did – the turkey was slow cooked for 16 hours! and better than ever, safe and sound in it’s foil tent covered in home made bacon. We cooked loads of veggies – mostly home grown – roast spuds, parmesan parsnips, braised red [...]
sowing, planting and harvesting w/e 23/12
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, herbs, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods, tagged seeds, sowing, vegetables on 23 December 2011 | Leave a Comment »
harvesting: leeks savoy cabbage
how do they know?
Posted in chickens on 22 December 2011 | Leave a Comment »
winter solstice
Posted in general wittering on 21 December 2011 | 2 Comments »
We celebrated today, though I believe technically it occurs tomorrow at some precise moment in the wee hours – as far as we are concerned, today is the turning point, from tomorrow onwards the nights will start drawing out, and we will start to get the light back again. We feel it – although himself [...]
flapjack
Posted in recipes on 20 December 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last January, when mucking out the fridge, I found the leftover mincemeat, and as per usual used it up in non mincepie things – and one of the things I tried was mincemeat flapjacks – they went down well with my family, and so throughout the year I have tried a few other variations on [...]
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