Recipes
Delicious ways to use your harvest.
Smoking paprika
My paprika crop is maturing and it’s time to get creative with it!
Coconut lemon slice (new and improved)
One of my most popular recipes is now even better!
Home-grown peanut butter
After 3 years and many, many hours of work, I finally get to sit down to my own home-grown, home-made peanut butter.
Boiled peanuts
Our third peanut harvest is our biggest so far; so I had the chance to try boiled peanuts for the first time. I am a fan.
How to make your own pruning paste
Pruning paste is helpful for keeping your fruit trees healthy after pruning.
Sponge-top pudding
Use your fruit harvests by making this simple comforting dessert on these dark winter nights.
Eating water-glassed eggs
An attempt to avoid buying eggs as our chicken’s production drops off.
Apple crumble
My favourite way to use our apple harvest.
Making Nana Retter’s Fruit Cake
Last Christmas I joined a long line of women in my family who have made my great grandmother’s fruit cake.
Gran Shirley’s Sally Lunn
We’ve got too many potatoes so I’m looking for new ways to use them. Turns out, my Gran had a delicious way around a potato glut.