This week is Great British Beef Week and to mark the event I am cooking a different dish every night using our own beef. Last night it was beef bourguignonne and tonight it’s beef stuffed cabbage rolls – it’s a new dish to me and one which may sound dubious to some but I have high hopes for it.… Continue reading Great British Beef Week – beef stuffed cabbage rolls
Today marks the start of Great British Beef Week, an event which champions British beef. Started by Ladies in Beef – a group of more than 150 farmers who aim to promote the British beef industry – it encourages people to eat beef as part of a balanced and healthy diet. As a keeper of cattle,… Continue reading Great British Beef Week…
Quiches are funny things aren’t they, I mean they can either be wonderful or a soggy mess. For me, quiches are reminiscent of good times – of picnics, of summer salads, those warm nights spent eating outside, of homemade loveliness using rich-yoked eggs laid by your own hens. The quiche is a quintessential French pastry –… Continue reading Can we talk about quiche, not just any quiche – this is Heston’s quiche…
Over the past few days we have gone through another round of TB testing – the process for testing bovine tuberculosis in our cattle. We live in a part of Britain that is considered low risk for TB so we are normally tested every four years (other higher risk areas have to go through it… Continue reading Another TB test…
Throughout our lives we may move around but wherever we live there are hopefully things we remember with fondness – maybe it’s a friendly bunch of neighbours, the local pub that keeps superb ale, that place on the corner that makes sensational sandwiches or a take-away where your order is placed before you’re through the… Continue reading A love letter to all the butchers I have known…
Compost heap – where have you been all my life… Although I have my own vegetable beds I haven’t had a compost heap until this year and, now I have one in my life, I can’t believe I didn’t make it happen years ago. As well as composting waste from the garden – veg tops,… Continue reading Let’s talk about compost…
I’ve got a confession to make – I don’t eat pancakes very often. But, on Shrove Tuesday, it always seems criminal not to. And, each year, the tradition is the same, a batch of paper thin, crispy crepes suzette are sizzled on the hob and kept warm in the oven before lashings of lemon juice… Continue reading Shrove Tuesday…
In my latest attempt to cook my way through the food days that are scattered across the year, I took on National Pizza Day – yes, there is such a thing, who’d have thought! I love a pizza – what’s not to love about a crispy thin base, a rich sweet tomato sauce (with a hint… Continue reading An excuse for pizza (if any was needed)…
As February gathers momentum we’ve had some wet and windy mornings but we’ve also had some frosty, misty and bright mornings. These are the mornings when going outside isn’t a chore. The air is still, the sky is full of optimism and the ground is crispy and crunchy underfoot. And, it’s not just me that… Continue reading A February morning on the farm…
As part of my quest to cook through the myriad of food and drink days that pepper the year, last night I took on Chinese New Year. Not so much a dedicated food day as a worldwide celebration, but excuse enough, if any was needed, to cook Chinese food. I think I was far too ambitious. It must be… Continue reading Chinese New Year…
