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Homemade takeout
Steel Kitten has blogged about learning how to make her own kebab meat for homemade donner kebabs and it’s made me think about how we’ve slowly been replacing takeout dinners. I’ll be honest – we still...
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More damsons!
The wonderful Vic and John B have donated even more damsons to the Team Peach cause this week. Another 3kg/6.6lb! Thanks again Team B! :) John’s happy with his three gallons of wine so these are...
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Spicy onion soup recipe
One of my fellow drama tutors, Kat, lives off cup-a-soups — she’s 19 and working about five different jobs so she can afford to desert us in a couple of weeks and go to drama school in that London....
View ArticleWheat-free week: our meal plan
I stopped publishing our meal plans a couple of months ago because I didn’t know how much value they had to other people – but I thought this one may be more useful. (I have been writing the meal plans...
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Ten minute chicken & sweetcorn noodle soup recipe
I wrote this back in August but it didn’t post for some reason. Now that soup season has properly started, we’re less interested in light soups – we want warming stodge! – but it’s still yummy :) I...
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My ten favourite simple living/growing/cooking/making books
(Inspired by book-aholic buying behaviour this month, I’ve decided to have a bit of a book-themed week both here and on my recycling site, Recycle This.) Despite living on the internet & using...
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Getting my bac-on – dry curing bacon, stage one
(Title inspired by the fact I sang a meaty “Get your freak on” parody while doing my cure mixing and meat massaging. It was so bad that even the cats, who usually “enjoy” my silly songs and certainly...
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The best smelling chicken stock I’ve ever made*
* Well, you know, one of them. I don’t remember them all exactly but this one smells gooooooooood. Hi again. It’s been a while since I blogged – too long – I hope you’re all well. I’m taking part in...
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Souper
In an effort to get back into the habit of blogging regularly, I’m taking part in Blogtoberfest 2012 – at least one post a day on at least one of my blogs (full list of the posts). I had to do...
View ArticleChickens from Swillington Farm: an update
(Hi, happy new year, hope you’re all well. I’ve really got out of this blogging lark, haven’t I? :) ) Swillington Farm, the awesome organic farm near Leeds, has linked to my very old post about their...
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