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Monthly Archives: December 2014

Working Dog Trials

December 30, 2014by Claire 9 Comments

Yesterday I mentioned that I made cake for our working  trials training day. I compete with my dogs in Working Trials. Well, actually I will start competing with Kainaat in […]

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Dogs

Carrot Cake

December 29, 2014by Claire Leave a comment

Yet again I have failed in my mission to cook my way through The Great British Bake Off cookbook – I skipped ahead and made their carrot cake (24) which […]

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recipes

Boxing Day Tradition

December 27, 2014by Claire 3 Comments

On Boxing Day we walk from our house to the British Larder for our lunch, and then we walk back again and collapse in front of a fire exhausted. Actually […]

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Dogs, eating out, Local Places

On the 5th day before Christmas the turkeys got killed

December 24, 2014by Claire Leave a comment

We don’t eat turkey at Christmas, we eat pizza – because we can! However two friends had asked if they could have a turkey each. We decided to kill two […]

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Animals, recipes

Guanciale and Spaghetti Carbonara

December 22, 2014by Claire 1 Comment

Back on the 1st November I started to make some Guanciale. I took two cheeks from our large black pig and put it in a salt and pepper cure for […]

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Animals, recipes

Winter root vegetable couscous

December 20, 2014by Claire 1 Comment

This is one of my favourite ways to eat root vegetables – winter vegetable couscous adapted a little from Ottolenghi Plenty (262). It doesn’t look anything special, but the magic […]

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recipes

Pork Rillettes

December 18, 2014by Claire 2 Comments

I had some pork shoulder leftover from making the Giant Pork Pie so I decided to make pork rillettes. The recipe says to use half shoulder and half belly, but […]

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recipes

Prototype sheep shelter

December 17, 2014by Claire 7 Comments

We need a sheep shelter – somewhere for the ewes to lamb in in the spring. Although we built the alpaca shelter last Christmas it was sort of a kit […]

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Animals

A Giant Raised Pork Pie

December 15, 2014by Claire 3 Comments

It was the last weekend day of working dog trials training of the year yesterday (see here for details) and I wanted to make something to take and share. I […]

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recipes

Trotter Gear part two

December 13, 2014by Claire 4 Comments

Just after I started this blog, I posted about Fergus Henderson’s trotter gear – see here.  Every year about this time I make a big batch of it and then […]

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