A CUCUMBER RELISH
An adaption of the recipe in Delia’s Summer Collection
This worked extremely well last year and helped diminish the glut of cucumbers that we had. It seems to keep very well, and we are just about to open our last jar, nearly a year later. Hope that you like it.
3 or 4 cucumbers3 or [...]
Last month I wrote a small general article on what we have been doing to become slightly self-sufficient or Self’ish. I read somewhere that the man who mends his shoes or clothes, takes a small step towards being self-sufficient, and it is up to an individual as to how far they wish to take it.
For us, [...]
WHEN WE HEAR talk about cereals we automatically think of breakfast cereals and associate it with a cardboard box. However, we are talking about grain wheat and rice, as they are the most commonly used cereals in human food production although also important are barley, rye, oats, maize and millet. Cereals are the dry seeds [...]
LA CALÇOTADA LENDS its name to the communal celebration of the calçots – leek-sized spring onions, blackened over open fires and served with a spicy nut sauce (see Romesco sauce below).
Valls, north of Tarragona, happens to be the capital of the Calçotada, going back to the 1800´s. All over Catalunya other towns celebrate this fiesta, [...]
Growing up in the sixties, some of my earliest memories were of my Dad out in the garden on a Sunday morning, doing the heavy work, digging beds over, under my mother’s careful instruction.
She was the boss – and woe betide anyone who played football too near to her greenhouse – the font of all [...]
“There are no good or bad foods, everything depends on the amount and frequency of consumption”
ANGEL
Cow’s milk and its derivatives (and also sheep, goat, etc.) are among the foods that generate most controversy, nutritionally speaking. Some diets speak of the wonders of milk, while others remind us that it is [...]
Meat Pate
Buy a large jar ( or 2 small ) of meat pate of your choice and empty into a bowl, fry off a few chopped onions with a little chopped garlic and you can add a few chopped mushrooms if you wish, throw in a few chopped herbs, fresh or dried mix together and [...]
