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Category Archives: Cooking
Lardy Cake
This morning is bright and crisp. The washing is on the line. Lorries have been trundling in and out of the farm yard. They are here to collect some cattle. Have any of you ever heard of Lardy cake? When … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Family and friends
Tagged baking, breadmaker, illustration, karen saunders, lardy cake, traditional breads, West Country
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Bonfire Night
Here are some burning sparks from our bonfire on saturday. After last year’s unfolding disaster with the cinder toffee I didn’t bother with it this year (read about it here, here, and here). I did return to Delia Smith’s Parkin recipe … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged bonfire night, Brown Owl, cinder toffee, delia smith, illustration, marshmallows, parkin, sausages, sparklers, stovies
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Community Resilience Plan
Yesterday there was a coffee morning at the village hall in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. As one of the other mum’s in the village says, “you just never know when you might need them.” There’s always a good bake sale … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Countryside
Tagged bake sale, coffee morning, community resilience plan, digging, floods, hot meals, illustration, macmillan cancer support, sandbags, tablet
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Lost tales
The journey back to Scotland from Devon is a long one so we’ve broken it with Big Dreamer’s parents in Yorkshire. Rain is pattering on the chimney cowl, echoing down the flue to where I’m sitting. As we were driving … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Countryside
Tagged badgers, castagnaccio, cooking, hugh fearnley-whittingstall, illustration, journey, memories, rain, recipes, romans, stews, sweet chestnuts, trees
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Broad Beans
Some seeds in our garden have completely failed to germinate this year. I’ve not seen hide nor hair of the beetroot, courgettes, or pumpkins. The odd spinach and lettuce has come up but nothing compared to last year. In contrast, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Growing things
Tagged beetroot, broad beans, catherine mason, chickweed, courgettes, gardening, illustration, lettuce, manure, peas, pumpkins, rabbits, seeds, spinach, strawberries, vegetable heaven, vegetables
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Bread
Here is my contribution to a fun evening with friends this week involving LOTS of food. Little Owl got to stay up, which she thought was marvellous. The Moroccan (sorry, spelt wrongly above) sesame bread follows a normal bread recipe … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Illustration
Tagged bread, chapati, edinburgh, flat breads, food, friends, illustration, kilonji, naan, procrastination
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Pace Eggs
Here are our Pace Eggs for Easter. I always plan to be more experimental with them and try lots of natural dyes but never quite manage it. Next year, next year! Little Owl had an Easter Egg hunt in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Family and friends
Tagged accident, easter egg hunt, illustration, natural dyes, pace eggs, recovery
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Making cheese
Look! We made cheese! Actual, real cheese! We were given a wonderful kit from Urban Cheesecraft for our birthdays and tried it out this week. The kit comes with instructions, a thermometer, rennet, salt, and citric acid. I especially … Continue reading
Pancake Day
Here is Big Dreamer flipping pancakes. We had to save our pancake day celebrations for Friday as this week has been jam-packed. I know that pretty much undermines the whole point of pancake day: the idea of intentionally pausing to … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Illustration
Tagged flipping pancakes, illustration, pancake day
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