Working Dog Trials
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 […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Carrot Cake
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 […]
Boxing Day Tradition
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 […]
On the 5th day before Christmas the turkeys got killed
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 […]
Guanciale and Spaghetti Carbonara
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 […]
Winter root vegetable couscous
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 […]
Pork Rillettes
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 […]
Prototype sheep shelter
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 […]
A Giant Raised Pork Pie
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 […]
Trotter Gear part two
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 […]
