Stargazy Pye There are many actual recipes for this dish. Though all have the traditional heads of some fish or other poking out of the pastry lid, it is the rest of the ingredients that can be slightly different. The first recipe is one that uses only pilchards, or sardines if you cannot get pilchards, [...]
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Recipe of the Day from Diana and Paul Peacock
Monday, April 19th, 2010Recipe of the Day from Diana and Paul Peacock
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Recipe of the Day from Diana and Paul Peacock
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Recipe of the Day from Diana and Paul Peacock
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010The following recipe is the classic plain scone usually served with preserves and cream.
Read More »3 January 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SHE WAS THERE, COMMUNITY ORCHARD
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010SHE WAS THERE She was there on awakening, when I straightened my legs. She shadowed me down the stairs and as I dressed in front of the fire. She waited, then pressed on, impatient with my faffing about, then scampered like a mad thing whilst I nursed a mug of tea and strolled round the [...]
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009AN APPLE TURNOVER is a bit like a puff with a hole in it. Puff Pastry 225g(8oz) plain flour Pinch of salt 150ml (5fl oz) cold water 180g (6oz) butter 1 Sift together the flour and the salt and rub in 1oz (30g) of the butter. 2 Add enough water to make a paste and [...]
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009Its time to sweep up the leaves
Sunday, November 8th, 2009Every house in the country has about ten kg of fallen leaves making the paths slippery. It is a bounty not everyone wishes to take advantage of, but if you can, collect them and compost. Leaves are remarkably full of lignin, and need a lot of oxygen, water and time to break them down. You [...]
Read More »A walk around the canal and a whole lot of history
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009I want to share with you my daily walk, well I say daily, unfortunately I’m just too busy these days to do it as often as I would like. Where I live in Manchester there is probably more significant history than anywhere else in the world. A list of some of it’s ‘achievements’ would include [...]
Read More »1 November 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman DRIVING TO SWINDON
Sunday, November 1st, 2009After the second successive night of blustery gales, first thing this morning I took the high roads from North Dorset cross-country to windy Swindon. In conditions made treacherous fallen leaves and sheets of driving rain, the route was mercifully light on traffic. Rain entered through even a tiny crack in the wound-down window to assault [...]
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