Waiting
A long day teaching in London followed by a night waiting for Elsie to kid. I thought she was close to giving birth when I left yesterday as her ligaments […]
Tag Archives: smallholding life
Iggy Pop Popped
Of course, she waited until just after I left before having her baby. I left this morning to go to London for an ultrasound and to stay the night at […]
Celeriac Rosti
Too much going on, writing, writing, writing and teaching…. too much to do and not enough time. This past week we have been mainly eating celeriac from the hugelkultur (and […]
Pig News
On Monday our three Large Black/Middle White cross pigs went off to ‘university’. Never an easy day, but we now have a freezer full of free-range, rare-breed sausages and bacon […]
Duck Eggs, Duck Hearts and Roast Duck
Yesterday was Sunday, so I imagine you can guess what was going on at our place. It was the turn of the young pekin ducks that we hatched out earlier […]
Beyaz Peynir (feta cheese)
I can’t believe I am 46 (nearly 47) and I have only just made beyaz peynir (feta cheese). I have been wanting to make it for a while, but the […]
Seed Saving and Caponata
As I greedily eat our aubergines, I do have half an eye on next year. My seed saving experiments with chillis and borlotti beans worked well this year – the […]
Slaughter Sunday is Back
My dog eats meat. The ducks had five years free-ranging in the pear garden. They had pretty much stopped laying eggs. We decided that a quick, quiet, unexpected death before […]
Deconstructed salad and raspberries
Everything is so fresh right now that it is nice to eat things as simply as possible. Pick and chop a cucumber, add a chopped heirloom tomato, some shredded basil […]
Home-smoked Duck and Pea Risotto
I have been waiting to make this for some time. First I had to grow the ducks and then the peas! I am still experimenting with my stove-top hot smoker […]
