And he kindly said what an excellent stand of hay, you should get about a hundred bales off that. Then he mowed it down to the dirt and roared off down the road!
Well, said Daisy. Quite the conversationalist isn’t he?
He will be back on Wednesday to see how it is drying and then I will rake it and he might bale on Thursday evening. Lets hope the weather does not throw any curved balls again. John is deeply envious of the hay man’s mower, it compresses the hay or something and sets it back on the ground in rows already. Very posh.
Yesterday I made peach ice cream, peach chutney and started another jar of peach brandy. And still there are peaches on the tree.
Here is my fresh Peach Chutney recipe. Using produce from the gardens. We ate this last night with chicken.
Sweat 1 tablespoon garlic, 2 finely chopped shallot, and 1 jalapeno. Add 1 1/2 pounds of chopped peaches and a tablespoon of chopped rosemary. Then 1/3 cup of sugar. Cook for about 3 minutes then deglaze with 1/3 cup of brandy, 2/3 cup of apple cider vinegar and a dash of balsamic. Cook until peaches are soft – about 20 minutes. Store in fridge.
Good morning. Today I will be pickling beetroot and making one small batch of zuchinni relish. I am the only one who likes it so I will not be making too much.
I hope you all have a lovely day. I will.
your friend, celi.
The Kitchen's Garden 
46 responses to “The Hay Man Cometh”
I love peaches and I love chutney, so I will be taking note and trying this one.
AH, the peaches are in and wonderful. Thanks for the chutney! (Hope the haying/baling goes well)
Lovely hay, Viv will pray rain stays away. We had one of those bright noisy windy storms a couple of nights ago. I watered during it, as there was only the occasional drip of water from the sky.
We too had cold chicken and chutney tonight. Jock refused the peach chutney from 2002, so there was all the more for me. He had last year’s marrow and apple chutney.
A lot of the arriere cuisine (back kitchen) stuff went the 7km to the new house today, and Jock adapted the shelving units to bridge the sink in the garage, and to accommodate the shapes of the pipes. Our new fridge, dishwasher and induction hob are installed and ready to go. We went up to the village to pay Alain from the ironmongery and thank him for his beautiful work. They gave us a set of beautiful saucepans (including a steamer) as a “discount”. It really is looking empty here now, but the moving men will be dismantling wardrobes and packing all the fragile stuff and making the final move on 5th August.
Have a lovely day, love ViV x
The fifth is coming right on down the pike!, as the old codger says. I am so glad that finally you are on the second half of the moving. At the beginning the whole thing looks so daunting! Is this the first place you and jock have moved into without him doing major renovations? c
your peach chutney looks and sounds divine! We finally had enough hot days last week for the neighbours to cut their hay. They worked long into the evening.
as will we i think! c
I love the later days of summer when everything has grown and settled, and life feels rich. That is what I get from the Farmy today 🙂
The peach chutney sounds delicious – so does the brandy!
Oh I do hope you had a lovely day.And I just put my ice cream maker thingy in the freezer and it’s peach season here too…so thanks for reminding me what flavour of ice cream I want to make tomorrow!
all i did was puree half and chop the other half. The chopped half I added at the end! c
Marvellous – that’s what I’ll do “Farmy Peach Ice Cream” 🙂
Your peach chutney looks delicious, a great side dish for dinner. I gotta try it!
Wishing you one hundred bales of perfectly dried hay and maybe share you goodie with the man with the fancy machine 🙂
The farm looks beautiful in the summer. How lovely to have such an abundance of peaches. Your peach chutney sounds very good. That’s a lot of cooking your doing but how special to be doing it all with your own home-grown goodies xx
I can imagine how relieved you must be to know you have another hundred bales or so of hay towards the winter season in addition to what has already been put under cover with such difficulty. Am writing out your peach chutney recipe for when our fruit arrives: sounds like ‘good stuff’ to give to neighbours as a Yule present too 🙂 ! Those zucchini look a treat!!!!! And, yes, am looking forwards to the other recipe also: yours are such sensible ones!
Oh, I have been waiting impatiently for Ontario peaches to the grocery store, everything seems to be late this year. I have never had squash bugs in cukes, so I decided to avoid zucchini and other squash this year and just grow cucumbers mine are about an inch long so should be ready soon.
Love the yellow zucchini. Nigella has a yellow soup recipe using them. The hay looks very neatly dealt with; hope the weather cooperates this time.
Well Hi there C! Love, love ,love your peach chutney recipe. You have been a very busy lady.
ooooh peaches, I am so looking forward to Summer this year, our winter has really been dragging on for ages.