VEGETABLES
artichoke, aubergine, beetroot, broad beans, broccoli, carrots, courgettes, cucumber, fennel, french beans, garlic, kohlrabi, mangetout, onions, peas, potatoes (maincrop), radishes, rocket, runner beans, sorrel, watercress
FRUIT & NUTS
apricots, blackberries, blueberries, greengages, kiwi fruit, loganberries, melons, nectarines, peaches, raspberries, redcurrants, tomatoes
MEAT
lamb, rabbit, wood pigeon
Thank you Eat the Seasons!
Archive for July, 2008
In season this week #5
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food on July 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Silly Things I Do
Posted in About nothing really, tagged Chocolate rice cakes, Homemade, shopping on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Somehow, buying rice crispy cakes doesn’t fit into my idea of ‘the simple life’, these ones didn’t even have chocolate in and you could taste it.
Homemade ones are fine, but bought ones just shouldn’t fit into the picture. Hopefully blogging about it will mean next time I’m not so temped. I really need to get [...]
Yahoo! Reminders
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged Christmas, potatoes, reminders, Yahoo on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I got my reminder for Yahoo! today to start chitting my potatoes for growing for Christmas, just need to find some potatoes now!
In season this week #4
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
VEGETABLES:
broad beans, artichoke, aubergine, beetroot, broad beans, broccoli, carrots, courgettes, cucumber, fennel, french beans, garlic, kohlrabi, mangetout, new potatoes, onions, peas, potatoes (maincrop), radishes, rocket, runner beans, sorrel, watercress
FRUIT & NUTS
apricots, blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, greengages, kiwi fruit, loganberries, melons, peaches, raspberries, redcurrants, strawberries, tomatoes
MEAT
lamb, rabbit, wood pigeon
Thank you Eat the Seasons!
Homemade pasta
Posted in Food, Homemade, tagged cream cheese, pasta on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Muma, middle-sister and Rhys made these for dinner. They have homemade cream cheese in them.
Dadso cooked them and made the sauce
Learning to knit (again) – Cont
Posted in Homemade, tagged knitting on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had given up for a while but I sat down and had another go and it just clicked this time.
Freecycle is great
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, Homemade, tagged freecycle, jeans, patchwork, sacks, shirts, silk on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, I haven’t really been looking at the things that have been coming up on freecycle lately, but today 6 men’s silk shirts came up. I’ve been thinking of trying patchwork for a while, I’ve even saved and cut up some old jeans that had a big rip in the knee and I thought that [...]
YouTube now working
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, tagged butter, film, YouTube on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have finally managed to load video on to my YouTube ‘channel’.
A Life Less Simple YouTube
There isn’t the buttermaking film I made, I think I will need to split it in two before I load it, but there are a few others
In season the week #3
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not at full list as I’m late posting this and next weeks list has already gone up, but the weeks biggy is: artichoke
Along with; peas, potatoes (maincrop), radishes, rocket, runner beans, raspberries, redcurrants, strawberries, tomatoes, lamb
Thank you Eat the Seasons!
Slow Sunday
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, Garden, tagged gardening, odd jobs, sunday, wedding on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spent a nice day pottery and re-covering from yesterday (‘the wedding’) today.
Did some gardening and odd little jobs, and I feel like I’ve got something done. I hate days when I don’t feel like I have got anything done, normally because the day job has gotten in the way, but today I had a rest and still [...]
