Flowers in the Polytunnel
These are the flowers I tend to grow – pea, courgette nasturtium and aubergine. All the more beautiful because you can either eat them or eat the wonderful fruits they […]
Preparations
In preparation for next Monday I have been reading this. Those of you who may have read this book might well be thinking preparations for what? A divine revelation? A […]
Blue Rabbit Cafe
The Blue Rabbit Cafe now has a rudimentary website: http://www.bluerabbitcafe.com It is just the basics at the moment so any suggestions or feedback would be welcome. Once things have settled […]
Extreme Ice-cream Experimentation Station
As the soft-fruit time of the year is coming up, I felt I had to clear any lingering soft fruit from the depths of the many freezers. I made some […]
Potato Salad
I got out of the routine of blogging for a bit – turns out setting up and running a cafe cooking all the cakes and food for it and growing […]
Fool
I don’t know why I have ignored the delights of fruit puree and cream for so long. My friends make a brilliant rhubarb puree with meringues and double cream and […]
Simmering Sea-monsters
On Sunday afternoon, after a hugely busy nine days on the campsite cooking pizzas, running the Blue Rabbit Cafe and doing egg collection Alfie and I went for a swim. […]
Daal Saag
Last of the spinach, first of the onions and coriander from the polytunnel of dreams so it had to be daal saag for dinner. I love south Asian food, but […]
Swarm
Have you ever tried sweeping up bees from grass? I don’t recommend it. Last week I collected a swarm – it was massive and hanging from one of our small […]
Special K
We found a lump on Special K’s neck last week. It was huge – the size of my fist. I suspected it was an abscess. I phoned the vet and […]
