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Malted Naked Oat Loaf Recipe
Malted naked oat flour gives this loaf a deliciously creamy sweetness while the whole grains add a pleasing crunch. Together they make for a hearty loaf with a rich complex flavour. If you’re new to…
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Garden Herbs – a social history, medicinal and culinary uses
I think sometimes we forget that the common overlooked herbs and plants in our gardens, have a rich history and many medicinal and culinary uses. We don’t always need to buy exotic herbs or go…
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Moroccan Style Carrot Salad
This is one of my go to salads whenever we are having a BBQ, dinner party or when I have a couple of carrots left over that need eating up. Have it as part of…
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Living with the seasons: June
June, the month of abundance! Up until now we have been relying mainly on winter crops, plus a few early spring crops like lettuce and asparagus. Now, the garden has bloomed into production. For us,…
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Sourdough Bread Recipe – Mastering Bread Making
If you haven’t read my previous post about creating a starter, check that out here. But if you have a starter, it’s happy, it’s healthy and it’s ready to go, you can can jump right…
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Creating a Sourdough Starter
What is sourdough? Sourdough bread is an unyeasted bread; this means that instead of adding dried yeast, you are adding a live starter. By creating a starter you are capturing wild yeast from the flour…
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Homemade Lip, Hand and Body Balm
Ingredients: 2tbsp beeswax pellets 7tbsp good quality olive oil Essential oils of your choice Jars or tins for your balm Method: 1. Melt your beeswax and olive oil together, in the microwave on 30 second…
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Homemade Spoon Butter
Your wooden spoons need some loving! They’re dry and cracking (kinda like my hands at the moment), so today we’re making spoon butter! The noble wooden spoon, where would we be without it? We all…
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Wellbeing in a Lockdown
First things first! Let’s stay healthy, not just physically, but also mentally. It’s scary and uncertain, we don’t know what’s going to happen or how long we are going to be on lock down. For…
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Living with the seasons: April
We might not be seeing a lot of this season, as most of us are on lockdown and won’t be leaving our homes or towns for the foreseeable future. So, this month’s post is going…