Living life the larger family way
Our first three weeks in Italy have already created an undoubtedly loyal family of Italiophiles, loving the atmosphere, the scenery, the people and of course, the food. Skirting our way through the markets, as far as skirting is possible with three buggies, we weave our way in and out of stalls laden with [...]
Making your own butter is so easy to do. You don’t need any special equipment at all and you only need one ingredient. The whole process from beginning to end takes 15 minutes at most. Price-wise, here is the breakdown. Tesco currently sell 250g of Anchor butter for £1.70, or you could [...]
Our dreams of self-sufficiency and living off our own land are still far off but it isn’t stopping us from finding out how self-sufficient we can become from where we currently are. This weekend has seen our kitchen step up into full productivity mode. We have begun making our own bread daily – [...]
There is nothing quite like homemade jam. Well, there is nothing quite like homemade anything, really. And homemade jam is really so very simple to make that there is no excuse not to try your own! As we are not currently in berry-picking season I bought a couple of bags of mixed, frozen [...]
Fancy some gorgeously tasty home-made bread but don’t want to spend time kneading? Try this delicious no-knead recipe. No-Knead Bread Recipe (makes 2, 2lb loaf tins) Ingredients: 9 cups plain or bread flour Salt Dried yeast 4½ cups hand-hot water 1 tsp sugar Method: Pour 9 cups of flour into [...]
This is a lovely recipe to have alongside a serving of Boeuf Bourguignon and it’s very cheap to make too! Potatoes Boulangere Ingredients: 2kg peeled potatoes 2oz butter 3 cloves garlic 2 onions (peeled) 12 fl oz vegetable stock 5 fl oz milk 1 tsp of chopped herbs of choice (oregano/thyme/rosemary) Method: [...]
