Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, make it yourself, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 7 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
what are nettles good for #5 - nettle pasta
After making the nettle beer, I was left with a panful of nettle pulp with a few bits of lemon peel. I picked these out and thought… seems a shame to have done all that tedious nettle picking and then throw them away and only keep the [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 4 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
what are nettles good for #4
Honestly, I thought nettle beer would be disgusting….and it’s not - its really very good!.. made in a similar way to elderflower champagne (but not quite as wonderful).
Me being me.. I looked at a few recipes for nettle beer, then tweaked it into my own. A hit with us - so [...]
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency on 3 May 2008 | No Comments »
a very good day - we took part in a community event and walked around a wood owned by one our neighbours - really inspiring, planted twenty years ago, and looks wonderful. We would like to put some trees in for coppicing - we don’t have enough land to supply ourselves with firewood, but we [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 30 April 2008 | No Comments »
#3 in what are nettles good for? nettle soup.
I cooked nettles last year and found they were horrible.. now I realise the trick is to only pick young nettles, and to only pick the tips. a bit tedious, and gloves are mandatory, but they are free.. and free is my favourite price. There are lots [...]
Posted in general wittering, recipes, tagged st george's day, Devon on 23 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
Don’t normally celebrate St George’s day - not particularly. After all.. we eat a lot of typically English food already etc.
I was pondering what I could cook… I googled and found one supermarket suggesting we make things with tomatoes and courgettes. Obviously, at this time of year, they would be imported tomatoes and courgettes.. which [...]
Posted in frugal living, general wittering, recipes on 11 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
I think my tastebuds are ruined. The ones that used to like rubbish.
I have always cooked. I can’t even remember when it began… perhaps beside my mum playing with spare pastry.. I dunno, just brought up cooking.. its natural. And not leaning on ready made food certainly helps you through skint times. But I used [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged vegetables, sheep, smallholding on 27 March 2008 | No Comments »
I know I have gone on lately about how nice PSB (purple spouting broccoli) is- but it really is a great veg. This is our first year of growing it.. can you tell?!
But there it is, filling the ‘hungry gap’ with something we actually like! - we only put in one row, helped it through [...]
Posted in recipes on 21 March 2008 | 7 Comments »
Every year I try and make my own hot cross buns, and every year, the results are something like rock cakes..(not my intention!).This year I have cracked it!
I give you hot not cross buns
I don’t object to the putting of crosses on top, I am sure the tradition of hot cross buns goes back further [...]
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