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Eggs


I stumbled upon this recipe a little while ago and it’s become a favourite in the Peach household – not only is it one of the nicest, richest desserts I’ve ever eaten, it both uses up eggs (a good thing!) and is really pretty easy & quick to make as well. It’s easy because it [...]

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I started my potatoes chitting yesterday. Well, they’d already started chitting all by themselves but I took them out of their nets and put them in egg boxes. Now to remember which is which… Today is the first time in about a week when it’s not been blowing a gale so I’m tempted to spend [...]

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I mentioned on Monday that I made a batch of lemon curd while my frustrating, sticky marmalade was boiling away. Lemon curd is far easier and more fun to make than marmalade, and oh my wow, it’s delicious. It doesn’t have a long shelf life though – what with the butter and the eggs – [...]

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Some of the things we’ve done this weekend: Started crocheting a new blanket – I got some “kool kotton” yarn a few months ago and think it’ll make a lovely blanket. I’m doing a granny stripe, about 5ft long — not sure I’ll have the patience to make it 5ft square (it takes nearly half [...]

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Since it is a nice (if windy) day and Lily-dog was distracted in the top part of the garden barking at the bin men (they’re stealing our rubbish, woof woof woof!), I decided to let some of the chickens play out in the garden this morning. (Because the garden is pretty open at the moment, [...]

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Just a passing observation – both yesterday and today, when I’ve collected the eggs from the girls, I’ve managed to crack one of the shells on the way back up to the house. I’m not sure what happened yesterday but today, the crack happened when two eggs bumped into each other – not too heavily, [...]

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