Greenhouse
The greenhouses (and the polytunnel) are an overgrown mess. But a month ago (maybe even at the end of September) I cleared out one of them. I then decided to […]
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Apple Juice and Wild Swimming
I don’t know where October has gone to. Things have been busy this week – book deadline looms as usual, but on a more positive front the weather has been […]
Massacre
On Thursday night a fox came and left 31 dead chickens in our main coop. Most of my rare-breed Ixworth chickens that I have been breeding for the last couple […]
Food Truck, Coincidences and Wild Swimming
I was away last week in Tallinn for work. It was a very interesting workshop with some lovely, clever people. Bizarrely, I unexpectedly bumped into my sister on the flight […]
Maqluba
I’ve wanted to make this wonderful dish from Ottolenghi and Tamimi Jerusalem for some time, but I had to wait for the fortuitous confluence of cauliflower and aubergine in the kitchen […]
Confessions
I don’t brush my hair every day – there I have said it. I brush it when I am going to work and often on other days, but sometimes over […]
Little Fears
I don’t have little fears. I have crushing, great, overwhelming ones. The book deadline looms so high that I am working on a Saturday, after having worked all week (so […]
Of Cabbages and Kings
Last year I grew a lot, and I mean a lot of squash. We must have had nearly a 100. Now there is no way we can eat that many […]
Lamb Shank Madras
When we weren’t eating sweetcorn and tomato curry last week were were eating this. actually the title is a little misleading as we never eat lamb, we always keep our […]
Sweetcorn and Tomato Curry
Last week we mainly ate curry. There was a lamb shank madras curry that I will post about tomorrow, but there was also this sweetcorn and tomato curry. The bi-colour […]
