condiments/pickles/jams/jellies

RIGHT TURN CLYDE! For those of you who remember my jubilation last summer when I’d discovered that my struggling teeny black current…

I had no idea Ralph and I have been living such a quiet life. Having our daughters home for the holidays happily…

OLD FASHIONED SWEET AND SOUR HARVARD BEETS are a holiday staple at my family’s table. A humble root vegetable turned into a vegetable…

An overcast Sunday morning at the farm, as summer starts to fade away… I don’t know where the time went this summer.…

When John Denver sang the line, “life on the farm is kinda laid back” it should have been clear to the world…

This is the second post in my HOW TO PICKLE series. Whether you tried the pickled turnip or not doesn’t matter –…

Learning HOW TO PICKLE is easy once you get yourself past the idea that it’s hard. My insight can be mind-blowing! All kidding aside, I’ve…

They’d won the war… After spending three years working in his dad’s Nottingham butcher shop, he decided he wanted an adventure. Sitting…

WHAT TO DO WITH GARLIC SCAPES AND WILD MINT? Make pesto! Pesto usually brings basil and flat Italian parsley to mind but using different…

Dirty Gin Martini Marinade for tenderizing flank steak felt like divine intervention yesterday morning, when I opened my freezer and found three ‘almost…