Category: Life
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mama’s easy meatloaf
As you know I run a small sustainably managed old fashioned farm. We like to grow the food we eat. But so that I can have this ‘on the farm’ life to which I would like to become accustomed, Our John has to go to work each day at a real job. Poor darling. And…
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the day i set my little brothers hair on fire for mw&g
In New Zealand we light fireworks on Guy Fawkes’ night. It is similiar to 4th of July except that 4th of July makes sense. Guy Fawkes was an unfortunate fellow with rather an elaborate moustache who tried to blow up the House Of Lords on November 6, 1605. He was not even the ringleader. He…
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Ginger Beer Bug and Sour Dough Starter
So this week I have started my sour dough starter. Very exciting. Today I will bring in the last of the honey. Queenie who is still such a short cow I am getting worried that we may have bought a midget by mistake, wears her tiny harness like a grown-up cow and is going for…
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The day I melted Mum’s Silver Tea Pot- part two.
If you have just arrived and have not read part one go here first, then come back for part two. It is not long, see you back here soon. I walked around Dads workshop wiping my nose on my arm. Dad usually had a hanky in his pocket that I could use but he was…
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The day I melted Mum’s Silver Tea Pot – part one.
In NZ our summer holidays are over Christmas and we go back to school in February. This is the beginning of our school year. All the summers of all our childhoods seem hotter and longer but this one really was hot and long. We had only been back at school for a few weeks.…
The Kitchen's Garden 