Goose is traditionally eaten at Michaelmas, but I’m not really a fan. They are pricey, and very little meat. The crispy skin though.. but our budget does not run to goose on a Tuesday night. So I considered ‘poor mans goose’ – there are lots of variations it seems, but it appears to be essentially [...]
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michaelmas food and drink
Posted in general wittering, homebrew, recipes on 29 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
blackberry liqueur
Posted in homebrew, recipes, wild foods on 18 September 2009 | 3 Comments »
In my continuing quest to find good uses for blackberries – well to be honest we got stuck on the apple and blackberry cordial which works so well and popular with the non-drinkers of the family, I haven’t done much else, but I have made a bottle of blackberry liqueur (recipe)
It’s pretty good. A martyr [...]
apple juice
Posted in homebrew, recipes, self-sufficiency on 18 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As soon as himself finished work, we started washing, chopping, crushing and pressing apples. We have lots, thanks to the generosity of my aunt and uncle – we hot footed it over there yesterday evening and gathered many boxes of apples (fighting the wasps off as we went).
We stopped to barbecue, then carried on until [...]
pea pod soup – ewww
Posted in grow your own food, homebrew, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 5 July 2009 | 4 Comments »
Those heaps of fresh green lovely looking pea pods just look too good to waste. But what to do with them? Well, I still intend to make pea pod wine – but the pods I need are stashed in the freezer, waiting for a spare demijohn. I have 15 bubbling away, but until the charity [...]
elderflowered out?
Posted in homebrew, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged homebrew on 25 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not quite yet.
When the elderflowers first started showing we would go to a lot of effort to get just enough for a batch of champagne or some fritters, but now there are so many and have been for weeks, that we are a little elderflowered out.
A combination of a good year for elderflowers, prolonged dry [...]
move around
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, homebrew, house and home, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding, wild foods on 14 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now that the cockerel run is free, we cleaned out the house, and moved everyone on one. So the six LS chicks are now in the cockerel run, and looking like they appreciate it it a lot, they were pecking about, lying in the shade, avoiding each other, huddling in groups and generally doing what [...]
another hot day
Posted in grow your own food, homebrew, recipes, self-sufficiency, vegetables, wild foods on 3 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
and yet more humping water containers around, but the forecast gives rain for the weekend and next week, so we are trying to get everything planted now, catch up, and hope the poor dried up plants last until the rain comes.
So the first wigwams for climbing beans is up, the last of the dwarf French [...]
apple and elderberry wine
Posted in homebrew, recipes, tagged country wines, home wine making, homebrew on 26 May 2009 | 4 Comments »
I cold ferment my wines – well cool ferment . I know some people swear by using heat mats, and I heard of one person who constructed a special warm fermenting cupboard, using a lamp for heat, but I have always used a cool place.
This started out as just the most convenient location for a load [...]
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