Ellie
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Scrumptious Saturdays – Ketchup in the slow cooker!!
The Fourth in our series of recipes! And a great slow cooker ketchup that tastes better the Heinz stuff in our opinion and does not have half the ingredients! You will need: 1.6 litres of pureed tomatoes 120ml of water 125g sugar 180ml of white vinegar 1tsp onion granules 1/2tsp of garlic granules 2 tsps…
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Scrumptious Saturdays – Apple Jelly or Chilli Jelly
As the apples are harvested it can sometimes be very daunting as to how many there are around here! It increases each year as we have around 50 trees (albeit a mix of plums, pears and apples) that we planted in November 2014! We stew some apple for pies and crumbles, we juice loads for…
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Scrumptious Saturdays – Chocolate Courgette cake
The third in the series of recipe posts and this is one of our favourites! You will need: 375g flour 75g of cocoa powder 2 tsps of baking powder 1/2tsp of seasalt 4 large eggs 120ml of oil 120g of butter 340g of light brown sugar 2tsps of vanilla essence or extract 1 pack of…
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Logs to burn
Another poem about logs burning!! I am rather liking these poems about firewood, there is something so evocative about fire too.
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Scrumptious Saturdays – Courgette and Feta Fritters
The next in our series of recipe posts from the recipes we use regularly around here at the smallholding, preserving our harvests for scrummy treats through the year! Today is the turn of Courgette and Feta Fritters You will need: 600g grated courgette 100g self raising flour 2 eggs 3 spring onions 150g feta 1…
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The Firewood poem
I thought I would share a poem I found about firewood today! Given that we like lighting fires for cooking, sharing, making drinks etc in our forest school sessions! We are also completely wood fired at the smallholding here, a log fuelled Esse for cooking, heating and hot water when the solar thermal panels are…
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Scrumptious Saturdays – Beetroot and Horseradish Chutney
I have decided to share a few of the recipes I have collected, tweaked maybe perfected for our tastes here on the holding preserving our harvests and allowing us delicious treats through the year, whether they be canned, jarred or frozen! I am going to start with Beetroot and Horseradish chutney as a request from…
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Ever wondered about our yarns??
I’ve been fiddling about putting together a little about the yarn video!! What do you all think!?! You can find our yarns over on Etsy They truly are a joy to work with!!! Watch this space for some new patterns releases coming soon!!!
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What’s doing??
We have been busy as bees round the holding still, but since the start of lockdown in March we have not had any significant rainfall!!! 10 weeks!! Things are tinder dry outside…. we are having to regularly water everywhere and currently just the other side of our nearest village there is a forestry and field…
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New yarn!!!!!
So tomorrow the Rustic range of yarns launch!! All hand dyed by me here at the smallholding and all the wool for the yarn is either locally sourced or homegrown!! From our own Sheep!!!!! So that’s gorgeous fleece from Wanda, Baabara, Wolfy and the three witches!!!! This time the wool has been blended with a…