BEAT, the Bacon Endive Avocado Tomato sandwich

The BEAT This to me is what growing your own produce is all about; we had some nice bacon left over the other day, and it was so easy to put together a great little sandwich for lunch with local, home baked, and home grown produce. The fresh endive and four different kinds of tomato really made it for taste and visual appeal. Instead of the BLT, here is the BEAT, delicious on home baked sourdough. Tomatoes Even though it’s Winter here, we always have plenty of cherry tomatoes, which…

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Pink pickled eggs

What to do when the trickle of eggs you waited and waited for finally turns into a steady flow and the full cartons begin to collect? Mum is of course always a good source of knowhow, and mine sent me a recipe for pickling eggs. They are not something I think I’d even tried before, although I’m sure I’ve seen them in jars in Yorkshire pubs. So I at least had to give them a go. And then I saw the tweak of adding beetroot to the pickling mix. Pink…

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Stovetop meals

It doesn’t get particularly cold here, frosts are rare, but it’s nice to have a fire going in the shorter, darker days, and sometimes we need one just to drive out the damp when it’s been raining for days and we would like to get some laundry dry. Cooking stovetop meals There’s something primally satisfying about having a fire at night. We have a slow combustion stove in the living room. It’s a good size and very efficiently heats the house. A plus with it is that it’s good for cooking a…

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Rosella jam and cordial from the one batch.

Rosella (Hibiscus sabdariffa) makes great jam and cordial, and here’s a way I have found to make both from the one batch. The cordial is refreshing and slightly astringent, which I find perfect for a rehydrating drink on a hot day. The jam is a little like plum jam, with an intense red colour. I took our third picking of rosellas the other day, and thought I would try cordial again, but this time with a recipe suggestion from Hip Pressure Cooking. Her recipe is for blackberry essence, but it…

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