Year: 2012
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Stick blender Mayonnaise – Salad dressings No. 2
I promised some more salad dressings when I wrote the Vinaigrette recipe the other day. I really looked forward to doing this post because mayonnaise this way is so simple and so spectacular. You’ll have great mayo in less than a minute. I hope once you have made this the first time, you will not…
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Llŷn Peninsula sunset – glory after the fog
The day started a bit murky here. And certainly further along the coast where we were for the main part of the day, the murk didn’t properly clear. This evening, on the end of the ‘Dragon’s Tail’ that is the Llŷn Peninsula we’re in a bowl of cloud. Facing west, we have this beautiful sunset.…
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Felin Ganol Amaretto Flour: Sourdough Bread
It’s very funny how life works. I nearly met Anne & Andrew Parry from Felin Ganol Mill last year. We were temporarily in the same room and then I had to leave the next day. That was at an ‘international’ meet up of bakers in Bethesda, North Wales. Love of bread (and food in general)…
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Eliot Coleman, Four Season Harvest: Book Review
Eliot Coleman: Four Season Harvest – Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long. Revised & updated edition. Chelsea Green Publishing, 1999. Paperback 234pp Four Season Harvest is a book about “extending the harvest season not the growing season”. In the words of Coleman’s wife Barbara Damrosch in the Foreword: “It’s about gardening and…
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Winter Panzanella Recipe – Bread Salad
If you make or use much good bread, you’ll have bits left over that are a shame to waste. Sourdough is great for this because it lasts without going mouldy much longer than yeasted bread. So you can collect a little stash. The bread needs to be a few days old and dry or drying.…
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Llŷn Peninsula sunset and Wicklow Mountains
A perfect end of daylight on our 23rd Wedding Anniversary. A gorgeous sunset. On the horizon on the right you can just see the silhouette of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. They’re a good 60 miles away, so the visibility is good. We like it here…
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Vegetarian chilli with chocolate recipe
Chillies and chocolate are a classic combination. The spicy warmth & smokiness of the chilli combine perfectly with the rich, smooth depth of the chocolate. I was prompted to develop a recipe by Choclette’s February I Should Cocoa Challenge. The challenge was to use chocolate in a savoury vegetarian recipe. I’d previously done a Challenge…
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I’m sorry for the slight interruption in service…
In case anyone missed me, I’m sorry for the big gap in posts for this blog. I’ve been on a big push to get the manuscript of my first book The Permaculture Kitchen to my publisher Permanent Publications. To finish it I needed to concentrate my attention on it 100% so my blog had to…
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Vinaigrette Recipe – Salad dressings No. 1
Writer and permaculture enthusiast Emma Cooper & her husband Pete came to us for a very enjoyable visit last year. We had lunch which included roast chicken, roasted pumpkin sourdough bread and a foraged salad. Emma asked me afterwards for the method for making the dressing. It’s taken me a while, but here’s the recipe…