Category Archives: cooking
Bacon: The Moment of Truth
Don’t worry, the title isn’t a reference to the recent meat panic across our media (which seemed to me to deserve a better headline, along the lines of ‘Balanced Diet Is Good For You Shock’), but to the happy occasion … Continue reading
Make your own Bacon
We’re not entirely new to salting pork, as we’ve mentioned here before, but what we’ve ended up with has definitely been to boil as salt pork or to put into stews as a flavouring ingredient, rather than the kind of … Continue reading
Filed under cooking, food, preserving
It’s lovely….
…when someone takes your pattern and creates something really fabulous with it! I had a bit of a ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ moment when Elisabeth sent me a picture of this wonderful cushion she made using my Granny … Continue reading












