The weather has turned chilly over the past couple of days, so we’ve stepped up the harvest and started stripping all the remaining soft fruit from their bushes. It was the turn of the gooseberries today, with the Other Half and I steadfastly ignoring a swarm of wasps to pick the last 1.5kg of berries. [...]
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Still pickling
29 July, 2007
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Our first batch of pickled onions for the season. We don’t grow a specific variety of pickling onion, but instead pickle the thinnings from our rows of onions. Our pickle is a simple one – two teaspoons of all spice berries, two teaspoons of white peppercorns and half a teaspoon of salt to each two [...]
Read moreGetting on with it
4 January, 2007
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We’ve had a tough couple of days as the workload has continued to mount while the virus developed into a painful bowel infection. I went to the see the doctor yesterday and came away less than impressed. As I was describing my symptoms, particularly how they’d changed overnight on Monday through to Tuesday morning, the [...]
Read moreFeeling jammy
9 August, 2006
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We made a large batch of “Very Berry Jam” last night and having just had some for morning tea – on home-baked bread of course – we all agreed it was so delicious we should share it. Ingredients Five cups of dessert gooseberries (the purple ones) Three cups of raspberries (a mix of cultivated ones [...]
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