Home cooked recipes from a Farmhouse kitchen
Spring time is lovely with the lighter nights and warmer days. If you keep chickens, you will know that these factors make for a very full egg basket. We sometimes get 14 a day and, with my menagerie of chicks growing fast, that number is set to multiply quite soon. What can you do with … [Read more…]
Fiona Arber set up The Best Bit ten years ago hosting gingerbread house parties for her friends and family. Having a gingerbread house party is such a great way to celebrate together and have fun with friends. It’s not just for Christmas either. Fiona can make bespoke designs to individual tastes. She uses all British … [Read more…]
The farmer is a huge custard tart fan-specially pastel de nata and I love baklava so I decided to combine the two in this recipe. Rather than using puff pastry, I brushed melted butter and honey on the filo layers and then poured in the custard when it was cool. It’s a great way … [Read more…]
Subscription boxes are very popular and you can purchase them for a number of activities both for adults and children. I was contacted by the lovely Sarah who runs Little Crumbs baking and cookery classes for children in the North East of England to try out her new subscription boxes. All of my children love … [Read more…]
As the nights grow darker and the leaves fall from the trees, I think we all begin to have the urge to cuddle up. The traditional cuisine of stews and soups in the Autumn really lends itself to a bit of spice and it seems it is our bodies way of trying to relive some … [Read more…]
We always have lamb in our freezer. Well, almost always. There’s nothing like cooking a joint of lamb for dinner and knowing you at least saw it happy in its life. The problem is, for cuts like leg and shoulder, there can often be a lot of left overs. Rather than treat the dogs to … [Read more…]
It’s all very well me harping on to you all about eating more British lamb for the sake of farming but what do you actually do with it when you get it? Well, I asked a group of bloggers to tell you what they do with it and the results will have you salivating at … [Read more…]
I have weaned all of my children the same. They have eaten the same meals as we have and all enjoyed different things from every food group. Why then is it only two of them that are adventurous with food and one refuses things without even trying them? Since turning two, one of my … [Read more…]
I haven’t done a recipe post for ages and these little eggy bites are something I just cobbled together because our hens are laying so much. I wanted a fridge snack that the children can help themselves to, are sugar free and are packed with protein for that all important energy. The options are endless … [Read more…]
Having recently cut his first field for haylage, I got a mini taster into what I know life will be like in summer. Snatched meal times and visiting fields with food. I have decided to let you know into some of my best kept secrets of quick and easy meal ideas for harvest time and … [Read more…]
