Yes . It has been a while since I last blogged. Not that I have been idle. Quite the opposite, in fact. The thing is we’ve been having a bit of an overhaul of the Country Gate plot and garden. Plants have come – and some have gone in an effort to create a thing [...]
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Salad days
Posted in container gardens, Local food, slow food, soups and salads, tagged companion planting, edible landscape, salads on May 15, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Dandelions, Rumpelstiltskin and pots of gold.
Posted in pantry, slow food, Things to make, tagged dandelion petal jelly, dandelions, eat your weeds, marmalade on April 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Dandelions have featured rather a lot this week.. As well as springing up with abandon on the lawn – I use the term lawn loosely – they have been a hot topic of conversation around the Twitterverse, in the neighbourhood and on the telebox. From dandelion fritters to dandelion root coffee, dandelion and burdock to endless [...]
Baking, beetroot and bunting.
Posted in slow food, tagged beetroot, Great British Bake Off, Nigel Slater, teaching children to cook on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The recent series of ‘The Great British Bake Off ‘has been greeted with such enthusiasm by my children that one would think they’d never seen a homemade cake or bun before. Maybe it’s the upmarket bunting-festooned marquee in a field approach that’s done it….or the element.of competition. It”s all a bit bemusing to me as they have’cooked’ since [...]
