Food

Wild and Fluffy Food

February 3, 2012
Wild and Fluffy Food

I’ve been inspired by John Lewis-Stempel’s “The Wild Life“, to resurrect my fascination with wild and local foods. Although I haven’t actually foraged much further afield than Borough Market, I am currently preparing a pot of slow cooked, wild, rabbit stew. I might not have shot it myself but I was rather perturbed when I [...]

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Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants

September 1, 2011
Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants

I’ve spent a good proportion of the bank holiday reading about food and quite specifically how to eat food. I started with the seriously irritating Allen Carr and his Easyweigh to Lose Weight. I’ve read this once before and threw it out in disgust but I have to cut Allen a lot of slack as [...]

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Roasted Sweet Beetroot Relish

August 21, 2011
Roasted Sweet Beetroot Relish

The plot and the hedgerows are so productive at the moment. It seems about two months too early but the sloes are already plump and juicy. I’ve just had to polish of the last remaining drop of slow gin from last year so that I can re-use the bottles for this year’s vintage. Extraordinarily tasty [...]

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A Short Foraging Interlude

November 14, 2010
A Short Foraging Interlude

Last weekend I became a forager, this weekend I quit. It started at 11am this morning in the pouring rain, we’d just had to vacate our lovely weekend Yurt and the warm safety of the wood burning stove. All for the sake of a haw, or two. Having shredded our hands on blackthorn and rosehip [...]

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The Remains of the Day

July 4, 2010
The Remains of the Day

You know it’s been a great evening when you finish off with a couple of empty bottles of fine ale and a bucket full of fresh produce. Days really don’t get much better than this. We sat in the sun and ate Ratte potatoes boiled with freshly podded peas and pondered over the mystery of [...]

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Tea on the Plot

June 25, 2010
Tea on the Plot

We took a mid-week opportunity to visit the plot to tend to the runner beans that have been causing me some anxiety. For some reason our beans are turning crinkly and growing in an ugly branched fashion. I initially thought they had been caught by a cold spell but I’ve been growing them in succession [...]

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Mother-in-law’s Ruin and the Marrow Jam Off

October 3, 2009
Mother-in-law's Ruin and the Marrow Jam Off

There’s been some degree of performance anxiety in the house since the great marrow jam disaster of August 09. We made a minor error of judgement when we told the whole, sorry, sloppy tale to the mother in law. Having triggered a nostalgic memory for jams of old she’s been threatening ever since to pull [...]

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Dashboard Dehydrator

September 20, 2009
Dashboard Dehydrator

I got quite carried away last year and came very close to investing in a £100 dehydrator for converting my courgette glut into dried stock granules. As it happens the glut never really arrived so I had a lucky escape and am happy to plough my money back into seeds for next year. The harvest [...]

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