I have been away for the weekend, visiting my grandmother in Devon. I have been promising to go for over a year now but there has always been too much to do. There still were lots of things to do but last month I decided there would always be lots to do and booked the train [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Food’
Devon
Posted in Day-to-day, tagged beach, devon, Food, Torre Abbey on August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Nettle soup
Posted in Food, Homemade, Wild Food, tagged Food, Nettle, soup on April 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I tried out a new recipe that I found for nettle soup last night, Rhys and mother both like it but I’m not so sure, I think I will like it with a little tweaking.
Pick half a small bucket of nettles, wash them and pick out any bits of grass or hay that have come [...]
Mutton
Posted in Food, Home grown food, Homemade, Sheep, tagged butcher, Food, mutton, Sheep on March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Seeing tonight’s Sunday Roast in the oven reminded me that I still hadn’t posted about the mutton we had back last Friday. We’ve had our own mutton before but this mutton was special as it was the first time it was butchered at home.
I bought mother a ‘how to butcher’ book and DVD for Christmas, and [...]
Food Showcase
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged carrots, Food, local, showcase, work on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was the local food festival; it’s a nice little event. The weather wasn’t so good for it, it rained all day and then started to brighten up just as it was time to start packing things away. It was still busy though.
I was working as a Play Ranger, drawing and making snow flakes, so [...]
100 Foot Diet Challenge
Posted in Food, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged challenge, diet, Food, Garden, meal on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t normally read the Path to Freedon but mother sent me this and it looks like a really interesting idea.
I don’t think that there is enough produce in the garden at the moment to be able to join the challenge but it’s something to aim for, and hopefully by this time next year then [...]
Credit Crunch
Posted in Food, tagged Credit crunch, Food, food prices, heating, Labour, news, shopping on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning on breakfast news there was an interview with a woman, it was something to do with the Labour conference, and she was talking about the credit crunch and how it was effecting her and her family, prices for things have been going up, interest rates are rising and how bad it was, etc., [...]
Local vs British
Posted in Food, Home grown food, tagged british, carrots, Food, local, shooping, supermarket, Tesco on September 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For an ex-mining market town, our local town is full of life. It has two green grocers, four butchers, two chemists, two florists, two DIY/household type shops, a whole food shop and two supermarkets, one a Lidl and the other a Co-op.
You can pretty much buy anything there you might need, so long as once [...]
Weddings and car crashes
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Goats, tagged car, car crash, charity shops, Food, goat, Goats, library, weddings on August 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ok, me and Rhys got back from the wedding on Friday, the driving wasn’t to bad (very long.) On the way there and back we ended up stopping at the same services as me and mother picked up Abna from a few years ago, Felix grandfather.
When we got there we went out for dinner with [...]
CSA Meeting
Posted in Farming News, Food, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged community, Community Supported Argiculture, farming, Food, local on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This evening I went to a meeting about Community Supported Argiculture and the possiblity of setting something up locally. I hadn’t heard of CSA before but there is a very good one in Stroud which is quite local.
“There are many different ways a CSA can be set up . It all depends on the decisions [...]
In the news
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, Farming News, Food, tagged cows, Food, shopping, Supermarkets on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Thai journalist being sued by Tesco.
I’m not a big fan of super markets and at the moment Tescos is trying to build ‘mega-store’ in one of my local towns, there are two arguments, Tesco’s will bring much need employment to the area vs Tesco’s will kill of the small, ex-mining town centre. Seeing as [...]
