Category: Recipes

• Onion Jam and Carrot Cake

  I spent some time with my mother’s recipe book yesterday,  which looks suspicously like my own. I thought I might try her custard recipe,  (eggs you see!) but I understand now why she always ended up making it from the Edmonds Instant Custard packet. I cannot work out her recipe for Elaine’s custard either.  I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 7, 2013

  Farming, Photography, Recipes

  carrot cake, old barn, onion jam, peacock and cat, The Daily View

• Dutch Apple Pie

  I am not a food blog but I love food. The old Codger loves food too especially dessert pies. So every week he looks through his old recipe books, and he has a fair few of them, and chooses a pie.  This Dutch Apple pie is made just like an apple pie except you top…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 5, 2012

  Humour, Photography, Recipes, Sustainable farming

  chickens, Dutch Apple Pie, Pigs in the chook house, The Daily View, the hen house, The kitchen’s garden, The temperature

• Green Tomato Pie

  You didn’t see that coming did you.  Nor did I, especially after yesterday.  Your comments from yesterday impressed on me once again that we all have such a lot on common. All living in our different worlds but dealing with so much that we can  talk about together. Thank you. Anyway back to the Green…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 21, 2012

  Photography, Recipes

  coyotes, fireworks on the farm, green tomato pie, how to scare off coyotes, raisins, what to do with green tomatoes, wild animals

• Stock that is good enough to drink

  Vegetable stock I mean! Seriously. Why would we cook with a vegetable stock that was not good enough to drink.  Most of the supermarket stocks are just salty and un appetising with a list of chemical ingredients a mile long. They tell me there are some tasty ones, but I have not found any yet.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 13, 2012

  Recipes, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  fennel bulb, fennel seeds, food, hay making, how to make vegetable stock good enough to drink, peahens, vegetable peelings, vegetable stock, vegetarian

• How to make Celi’s Sweet Chilli Sauce

  Look at those beautiful grapes, if I could make a wine that tasted just like these grapes I would be thrilled, and look at my beautiful flower, eaten by the bad bugs.  But still beautiful. Thing Two asks that no-one notice the little drop of milk on his nose.  He is trying so hard for…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 7, 2012

  Life, Photography, Recipes, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  cat with milk on nose, chillis, coyotes, grapes, guineas, pink hollyhock flower, recipe, red peppers, sweet chilli sauce