You may or may not have seen my previous posts which have been written to mark Great British Beef Week. It started on Monday and every day I’ve been cooking a different dish with our own beef. Today I thought I’d write about how we make our own biltong. This cured and dried beef is a firm favourite in our house… Continue reading Great British Beef Week – Biltong…
This week is Great British Beef Week and to mark the event I am cooking a different dish every night using our own beef. On day three I thought I’d cook one of our staple dishes – beef dopiaza. I cook a curry at least once a week using chicken, pork, lamb, beef or fish – they are always spicy and always accompanied… Continue reading Great British Beef Week – Beef dopiaza
This year Great British Beef Week is all about championing the role of beef within a healthy and balanced diet and the benefits of using thin cuts for a quick-to-cook meal packed full of protein, iron, vitamins and minerals. To mark the event I am cooking a different dish every night this week using our own beef. On day two… Continue reading Great British Beef Week – Flat Iron steak
Today, St George’s Day, marks the start of Great British Beef Week. Running for seven days, the celebration was started by Ladies in Beef – a group of more than 150 female beef farmers who aim to promote the British beef industry (the organisation was co-founded by National Farmers Union president Minette Batters). The event champions… Continue reading The start of Great British Beef Week…
Like a lot of people, the sun has driven me outside. As soon as the temperature started to rise, the snow stopped and the wind dropped, I was out in the garden like a shot. The warm weather and sight of the sun makes being outside a joy. But, when I first head outside each Spring I realise… Continue reading The joy of gardening…
Growing up, lamb was one of my favourite meats and my Mum’s lamb parcels were top of my list. Recently though lamb has been more scarce on the menu. We occasionally have a rack of lamb on a Sunday, lamb kebabs on the barbecue in the summer and once a year we maybe have a lamb tagine. With recent reports… Continue reading British lamb…
With the return of the very cold weather, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the kitchen. The bitter, easterly wind has been whipping through the farm for the past two days making any chores outside short-lived. I love being in the kitchen, but when I’m forced inside it is the best place to be.… Continue reading Comfort food (and a recipe for homemade granola)…
Without wanting to fixate on the weather…we still have snow. While we can now leave the farm, the main road that reaches the drive is still under three feet of snow. Yes, we’ve had some milder weather but that snow is really clinging on in there. Life is relatively back to normal on the farm, the… Continue reading We still have snow…
What a different 48 hours makes. Yesterday we woke to a little more snow but the effect of the wind raging from the east overnight created exceptionally deep and vast snow drifts. We walked to the end of the drive – and it was a struggle. It really felt like we were living in a Big Brother… Continue reading Our attempts to leave the farm…
…it’s a question I ask myself every time the Labrador finds itself out in the snow – she absolutely loves it. It makes her extremely hectic and happy and she tears round and round, up and down, trying to get the Ridgeback to join in. The Ridgeback is less fussed about the snow but once she… Continue reading Why do dogs like snow so much…
