I adore soup at any time of the year but as the weather turns colder, it is the perfect lunch to warm up a cold farmer. Opening a tin is obviously the easiest option but when it is so easy to make your own, I like to go the extra mile every now and…
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…
The sun may have shone on the farm for a few days but it is still bitterly cold and, as you know, I am the biggest soup fan, ever. We quite often have a chicken dinner on a Sunday (and sometimes during the week too) so I do try to think of different things to…
As November hurls full throttle into December and Autumn becomes winter, life on the farm slows down. Not least because it is so cold here and using too much energy outside is such an effort. All weather is magnified here-especially wind. It is a result of being so open on the farm with no buildings…
I’ve not published a recipe in a while. To be honest, I wasn’t too sure that people liked to read them but I made this chilled soup this week and I had to share it. I love soup. All year round. If I am trying to watch what I eat, it is a great way…
We did our pumpkin carving last week to coincide with a school competition which we didn’t win. I was so, hopeful until I saw the other entrants. Wow. Put it this way, I will be doing my pumpkin carving homework until next year.* One thing which did turn out though was what I used the…
I recently saw a delicious looking soup in a sandwich shop. Christmas soup. I was really excited about it but imagined it would have turkey in it. It didn’t, it had ham so I still couldn’t have it (remember the vegetarian farmer’s wife). So I decided I wasn’t about to miss out and made it…