I keep trying to make freezer space – not because we have any forth coming harvest, but just so we can A) be sure to be steadily making space – after all by next summer we should have lots of freezer space for the next harvest.. right…? B) make room to stash some things for [...]
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devilled kidneys
Posted in recipes on 16 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
pork sausages
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 10 November 2009 | 6 Comments »
We’ve been sausage making again. This time using one pork hand, one slab of pork belly, and all the bit and pieces saved from the butchery day. Delish.
We also set aside enough sausage meat for the chestnut stuffing for that winter festival thingy, and another lot for sausage rolls. Homemade sausage rolls are always so [...]
plum clafoutis
Posted in recipes on 8 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
‘Clafoutis’ rates as one of my favourite words. Other contenders for favourite word are ’serendipity’ and ‘nefarious’. ‘Clafoutis’ is such a lovely sounding name, and very grand for a dessert that is essentially a sweet fruity yorkshire pud.
Today I made a plum clafoutis. I looked at lots of recipes and although we still have eggs coming [...]
halloween, samhain and all
Posted in general wittering, recipes on 31 October 2009 | 5 Comments »
It seems to me that there are many markers for this particularly time of year. It starts perhaps with the clocks changing, slinks into halloween, through samhain and finally finishes with bonfire night. I expect there are many more festivals I don’t know of – but they are all about the end of summer. It’s [...]
chocolate biscuits
Posted in recipes on 16 October 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m trying to teach my son how to cook – he always wants to make sweet things. We strike a balance., and I am proud to say he makes a pretty good sausage casserole.
Lately though, the quest has been for the perfect chocolate biscuit, as he wants them for his birthday. And he likes plan [...]
crab
Posted in grow your own food, recipes, vegetables on 15 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We three love crab, and I bought one from the fish van. Crab is great, tasty, sweet, low fat, and sustainable. They are caught locally (well ok not actually on Dartmoor, but fairly locally anyway), and I bought it from a small independent trader (aka the fish van). The are caught in a way that [...]
cream of legbar soup
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency on 8 October 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well the hens are definitely slowing down for winter – most are in a moult, and we are only getting three eggs a day. The good girls still laying are the two hybrids we bought last year – a Columbian blacktail and a blue maran, and one of the girls we raised in the spring [...]
pâté
Posted in books, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 5 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I do like offal. Not only is it versatile and tasty, but often very cheap. When you raise your own animals for slaughter, you receive plenty of offal, and we very much enjoy the treat that is it.
For a start, on slaughter day, we have a first taste with a dinner of fresh liver, as [...]
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