Cheese Scones (and Watercress Soup)
Continuing yesterday’s yoghurt theme I made some cheese scones. Adapted from Dan Lepard’s recipe in Short and Sweet made using leftover blue cheese and wholemeal flour. Cheese Scones: 200g wholemeal flour, 2 […]
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Nettle Soup
We have quite a few patches of nettle around on the smallholding – they are for wildlife and dinner, not because we can’t be bothered to deal with them …. […]
Poached Chicken (2 – and 3, 4 and 5)
For round two of the poached chicken I made a caesar salad with some romaine-style lettuce from the garden. For the caesar dressing I make a version based on one […]
Split Pea Soup
As promised, but slightly later due to Easter busy-ness and adventures, here is the recipe for split pea soup. I used some of the celery and carrot that I chopped […]
Eating from the Smallholding (3)
This week we pretty much had squash for every meal – and some kale. We still have three large squash left! Last Saturday we got back from holiday after a […]
Squash and Kale Soup
When I made my squash and coconut soup a couple of weeks ago (see here) I felt pretty smug and was sure nothing could beat it, particularly nothing with kale […]
Squash and Coconut Soup
Some of my squash started to go squishy. It turns out that although it might be good to cure your squash in the greenhouse it is not good to leave […]
Slaughter Sunday and the Best Chicken Soup
On Sunday we decided to kill the remaining Ixworth cockerels and the two last Ixworth/Naked Neck crosses. I wanted to move the Ixworths away from the Pear Garden that the […]
Daisy Dog Day – part three – the Party
And at the end of Daisy Dog Day we had a big crazy campsite party. I was too busy to take photos of the party so a few of the […]
Oven-Dried Tomatoes
As with most culinary adventures I owe the inspiration for finally making these little beauties to George and Tina. They got me into cheese-making and smoking and also introduced me […]
