Category: Vines and Wine
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A Small but Robust Sticky Crush
Yesterday we picked out first little crop of Vidal Blanc grapes for wine. We hauled everything out through the orchard into the teensy vineyard (10 vines to pick), set up the harvest table, (made from old recycled barn timbers) and numerous vessels. Gathered the troops and began. This is our first pick of these grapes…
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Spinach Soup for the Pickers and Crushers!
Today we are going to pick and crush the grapes. These are a Vidal Blanc grape on a root stock that will deal with the extended freezing temperatures here in the winter. I can leave the grapes on the vine until they are frozen (resulting in a really sticky white dessert wine) however I don’t…
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Butternut, Chickpea Curry with Eggplant and another award!
We are picking plenty of butternut now and I know I am supposed to be storing them in the basement for the winter but they are just so tasty. Eggplants or aubergine seem to have been our best fruiting plant this year and we still have some hanging, just waiting for the kitchen. In fact…
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In my Kitchen, a tiny glimpse
For the first time I thought I would take a few pictures of things in my kitchen and join the fun over at celia’s. Just a few shots today because as usual there are a number of culinary projects hanging about cluttering up the place. This is Johns great-grandmothers coffee grinder. We use it every…
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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…
The Kitchen's Garden 