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14 Aug 11 Sunday Breakfast

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A change is as good as a rest, it has been often said.

Kippers!So this morning, instead of the regular and sausage -up, we decided to have something different.

Tomatoes & Mushrooms are simply smoked , but they make a tasty alternative, particularly when you don’t have them very often.

To go with the kippers, we pan-fried some , and some mushrooms.

Kippers & Egg We also thought we’d be healthier with the this weekend, so instead of frying them, we got a pan of water boiling, dropped in the , and poached them.

Along with a of freshly ground, brewed , it was a most enjoyable .

Now if only, kippers didn’t have so many darn !

Here’s hoping y’all have a great weekend.

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01 Jan 11 The Garden Project

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Garden Hotels, click here

The PlotI want to get this Garden Project underway now, so the ground is as ready as can be for spring planting. I realize I am not going to get everything done in one go, so I’m going to concentrate on getting one area ready, and then move onto another one. I can get some seed planted for the spring, and then work on getting another area ready for an .

is important of course, but I won’t need to concern myself with that for the first year.

I have a fork and spade, and a roller, and I shall need a sieve and a .

Garden WasteSoon I shall look at exactly what I am going to plan on planting. When I had an in years past, I tended to concentrate on growing either that were consistently expensive to buy locally, such as ; that were generally readily unavailable such as celeriac and  different varieties of common , such as tomatoes, , and squashes.

these days usually grow for yield, whereas growing yourself means you can grow for flavor, and you can pick stuff at the for that, and of course, it’s fresher than even it is at the .

I’m certainly looking forward to what I can achieve during the 2011 growing season.

Watch this blog!

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26 May 08 Grill

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Grill

This afternoon, being , we got together with the , and had a little grill out. We cooked some , and some , and peppers and , and they supplied a nice pea and and some more steaks.

We had a pleasant evening, until the came down and the bugs came out, when we called it quits.

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