Cooking
These are all the posts in the “cooking” category, including recipes and preserving.
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(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 chickens in their most recent newsletter and I thought it was possibly time for an update. We’ve had [...]
Continue reading about Chickens from Swillington Farm: an update
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 something with all that great smelling stock, so today has been a batch soup [...]
* 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 Blogtoberfest 2012 to try to get back into the habit of blogging regularly – the [...]
Continue reading about The best smelling chicken stock I’ve ever made*
(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 love it whenever I’m doing anything with meat in the kitchen, left the room.) I finally started [...]
Continue reading about Getting my bac-on – dry curing bacon, stage one
(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 it/blogs for most of my day-to-day info, I’ve got quite a few simple living related books and as you might expect, some [...]
Continue reading about My ten favourite simple living/growing/cooking/making books
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 usually make hearty, wintery soups but since it is technically summer at the moment, we’ve wanted lighter [...]
Continue reading about Ten minute chicken & sweetcorn noodle soup recipe
