Fruit and vegetables
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Smallholding Sunday
A photo round up of our jobs and fun here on the smallholding this summer! Baling hay, fruit and veg, building and fun.
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Smallholding Sunday
A goal setting post for the smallholding this year
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Scrumptious Saturdays – Pear Clafoutis
A while ago a dear friend sent me a recipe for pear clafoutis and I thought I’d share it with you! We have made this a fair few times and substituted different fruits in at different times of year or supplemented dwindling pear supplies with blackberries or apples etc etc!! It’s quite simply delightful!!!
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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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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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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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All go round here!!
So over the past few days we have been working hard to get things sorted, built, planted, weeded and moved!! We have weeded both large raised beds, and I have started to plant seeds for veg in there, using my scaffolding plank as a bridge across to stop me from stomping all over the bed!…
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So plans for Tyddynbryn!!
Social distancing smallholding style!! We have an absolute load of work to get on with here on the smallholding and with the nice dry weather that has started we have made a start!! Moving the chickens and ducks to new turf. Wood chipping paths and flower beds and around new raised beds! Having cleared the…