Apples for Eggs Food Swap
Love it when you stumble across a roadside produce stall like the one pictured. We bought a spaghetti squash (back of table in picture above) Inspired by this little stall we’ve started a Roadside Produce Stall board on Pinterest! Do you have a favourite Roadside Produce Stall?
September’s a great month to get out and about foraging autumn fruits and berries from the hedgerow – elderberries, haws, rosehips, sloes, brambles and crab apples are all in abundance. So let the foraging begin and rosehip syrup, crab apple jelly and bramble vodka making follow.
Over the next few weeks we go into constant cake baking mode for birthdays and school fairs. For such occasions when there’s not much time or energy our go-to recipe is this super-light sponge cake that my grandma used to make. It’s easy peasy and can be dressed up with fruit and some fresh […]
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All seems to be in full swing over on the allotment. Planting season is well under way and this year we’ve got the use of a poly tunnel as well as our small greenhouse which has meant more time spent outdoors digging, watering and generally getting our hands dirty. The beds have been dug […]
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So it’s wild garlic season again, and this time, we’ve decided to leave the rocket-fuel wild garlic pesto we made last year alone… Described by a York swapper as tasting probably like Tom Waits if you licked him after a shower, it really is potent stuff – better used as a spoonful of garlicky […]
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Another Happy Easter spent in Whitby with plenty of sea air, fish and chips, Easter eggs and fossil hunting on the beach.
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If you’re starting to think about doing a bit of spring cleaning you might want to try this super easy homemade citrus vinegar all round cleaner. Apparently the acidity levels of white vinegar kills most mould, bacteria and germs and used undiluted white vinegar left in a bowl in summer time gets rid of fruit flies! […]
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Since summer our hens seem to have upped their laying capacity and have been supplying us with up to 30 eggs a week. That’s a lot of eggs for one family to get through! So as well as giving batches away and baking when possible we’ve taken to regular ice cream making. To my […]
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