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Goal #1 “make a meal using only ingredients I’ve grown myself” – DONE!
This was my dinner this evening – courgette frittata with side salad – and it was made entirely using things from our garden (with the exception of the wild garlic pods – some were from our garden, others from further into the woods). Ingredients: – courgette (although I only used one in the end – [...]
10 goals for 2010 – April & May progress update
1. To make a meal using only ingredients I’ve grown, raised, caught or killed myself. April was an interesting meat-y month – we learned how to kill & dress chickens, and we also learned how to make sausages. It was also the proper start of seedling season – and that’s continued in May. So far, [...]
Sausages!
One of my ten goals for 2010 was to learn how to make sausages. I’ll admit it was a bit of an easy one — the “make to-do” list item on your to-do list just so you can cross something off straight away — as I was already planning on attending a sausage making course [...]
Death & dressing: killing, plucking & butchering our first chickens
On Friday night, we killed, plucked & butchered two chickens. As you do. To be accurate, the wonderful John B and my John did the killing, then my John’s brother Chris and I joined them in plucking, then John B showed me how to dress the chicken, and then I showed Chris. The chickens first [...]
Wild Food Fun: Whitby Crab and Wild Garlic Risotto
A change from my last very quick and easy wild garlic (Ramsons) meal – I made crab & wild garlic risotto for dinner today. I got two dressed crabs from Leeds Farmers Market – the guy gave me a free one because he wasn’t doing another market for a few days and they don’t freeze [...]
Wild Food Fun: Wild Garlic (Ramsons) potato cakes
I had my first wild garlic of the season today! The woods behind our house are *full* of it – the banks of the stream on both sides are five foot deep with it, mostly just small baby leaves at the moment but some bigger leaves too. I picked some – a large handful – [...]