I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and I wish you a happy holiday season and all the very best for the New Year. Here’s a small selection of the xmas lights from our local village – it’s quite a local attraction…
I made Florentine biscuits for xmas from my mother’s famous recipe. There’s nothing healthy about these, but it is xmas after all and at least I knew their provenance… And they’re really yummy, but I need to keep practising as they’re not as good as my mum’s!
While the weather created mayhem in the rest of the country last week, we had fresh crisp (really cold) days under a lovely blue sky. It was definitely a beautiful white Christmas this year – our first one in our newly renovated old farm house (even though it’s not quite finished!). The only dampener was that two family members couldn’t make it down from Scotland to join us due to the snow.
Of course we managed to over indulge yesterday but at least it was a free range turkey and goose, plus organic veggies… So we can now rest easy.
See you all in the new year with your resolutions…
It’s the end of August and the plums are getting ripe. The problem is, as usual, that all the plums are becoming ripe at the same time! I’ve just picked 16lb (7.2kg) off a single tree, and there are still a lot left on it. And I haven’t even touched the other trees yet… So…
It’s the end of summer and our plum trees are full of sweet ripe fruit. It’s a race to pick the ripe fruit before the wasps gorge themselves & make themselves drunk! So what to do with so many plums? Smoothies and fruit leather of course! Raw fruit leather is amazingly easy to prepare and…
Last week was a tough week, but I’m not ready to write about it yet – probably next week. Instead I’ll just mention that we bought a Braun electric hand mixer over the weekend – just so that we could make wholesome organic mayo using cold pressed olive oil (instead of canola oil or any other…
We’re recruiting new members for our chia squad, and once you’ve read about all the benefits, we guarantee you’ll want to join us! Chia seeds might be teeny tiny, but they sure pack a nutritional punch. Here’s the lowdown… Fibre! We all know how important it is to get enough fibre in our diets, essential…
I got a good reminder yesterday – not everything is what it seems! I saw some new hand-soap which called itself ‘organic’ with a very eco-friendly name. As I looked on the back label for a company website to see where to buy it, I noticed the ingredients – the second one listed was Sodium Lauryl Sulphate! It was a real…
Delicious, rich chocolate brownies and healthy too! So quick to make with this easy no-bake recipe. (Gluten free, dairy free, sugar free, soy free, vegan) Raw Chocolate Brownie Recipe (makes 10 large or 20 small pieces) Ingredients: 100g walnuts 200g pecans 200g medjool dates 75g raw chocolate powder 1 tsp vanilla extract Pinch of salt…
