Well the cold weather has arrived with a vengeance around these parts. Inside, the fire is toasty warm so we keep it going all day and all night. Outside though, it is definitely heading into Winter. We’ve had such a long, mild Autumn that I had quite forgotten just how cold it can be. In…
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How To Freeze Herbs
Our basil was super late growing this year. Earwigs ate the first lot of plants, and the second lot took a while to get going. We even ended up buying several batches of basil to cook with because we didn’t have any in the garden. At long last however, the basil plants are full of…
Sour Cherry Preserve
Just before Christmas we harvested our first ever crop from the orchard. If you follow me on Facebook (and if not, why not??) you may have seen some pictures of the cherries from our sour cherry trees. Now admittedly, it will be several years before we are over run with sour cherries, but the first…
{Recipe} Home Made Pickled Beetroot
Like nearly every other vegetable we grow, we currently have more beetroot than we can eat. Country Boy can’t help himself, and always plants way more than we need. He tells me that he has to plant more in case they don’t all grow, and I humour him. A few weeks back Country Boy decided…
{Recipe} Preserved Ginger
One of the problems with once a month shopping is that some things just don’t last well, and are hard to get in our small town. One of those things is fresh ginger. I can’t get it in town, and if I buy it at the beginning of the month, it is usually dry and…
