Real Food
Allegedly, Buddha once said, “Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are; it relies solely on what you think.” Or . . . you might say it relies quite simply on two of Enid’s orange-yolked eggs, gently poached and served on Damien’s country sourdough toast. I’m sure Buddha would be [...]
Three bullfinches were spotted in our garden today. A cause for jubilation, we might say, as bullfinches are now increasingly rare. No doubt they are eyeing up the buds of apple blossom about to burst open, for bullfinches love to eat blossom, you see. This is a deep irritation for profit-conscious fruit growers of course. [...]
Anyone who knows us will probably know by now that Tuesday is Milk Day, when we go to a local farm to collect raw unpasteurised milk for a growing band of people around our area. We are impressed by the increasing level of interest in this precious whole food. Gone are the days when we [...]
A couple of days ago, it was brought to my attention that the New York Times is running a small essay competition, and it was suggested that I should submit an entry. Up for the challenge, I followed the link and found that NYT had assembled what they describe as ‘a veritable murder’s row of [...]
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When it comes to making pickles, the unseasonably warm weather has nearly caught me out. Fooled by the mildness of the last few weeks, it hadn’t really struck me that the cauliflower and courgette season should be over by now, until I was told at our local farm shop that the last of these vegetables [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I spotted something on the TV that gave me hope in my continuous search for the truth in all things. It was a brief conversation between two women, one describing herself as a dietician and the other a marketing consultant. The dietician asked the marketing consultant to explain the story [...]
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Gosh! More than three weeks since the last blog post . . . but it is Sally’s birthday month, and when distractions follow each other in quick succession, it is difficult to knuckle down to the serious business of composing meaningful pieces of writing. I could of course tell you about our short break in [...]
Breakfast on the patio yesterday, unexpectedly al fresco, in temperatures that beat anything we have experienced all year, judging by the melting butter . . . And what fine butter it was too! In frustration at waiting for our pet dairyman (and supplier of wondrous raw Jersey milk and cream) to get into butter making, [...]
On 24th March 2011, I talked about the cooking of chickpeas, but things have moved on. Around that time, Sally and I transferred into a large pot on the patio three little plants that we had grown from seed in the greenhouse. Out of a batch of six chickpeas planted into seed pots, three of [...]
Since the inception of the Campaign For Real Ale, most of us in the UK (and further afield, I might add) know what real ale is. More recently, we have seen the launch of the Campaign for Real Bread, which has also enjoyed great success in pointing out the difference between real bread and the [...]