To help you get the best from your weekly shopping and control a tight food budget, you may get some useful hints and advice from the following sites:
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How to make an easy rice pudding
October 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
If you are looking for a simple to make family pudding then you can not go far wrong with this recipe for a rice pudding. This pudding is ideal for a cheap, easily made, ballast kind of pudding. Great for cold winter nights when you just need a bit of fuel in the tummy at [...]
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The Humble Turnip makes a Comeback
October 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A recent article in the Guardian would suggest that the humble turnip or (Neep / Stumshie) as it is known in Scotland is staging a comeback. Commonly the Swede or yellow turnip (Rutabaga) is what we refer to as “turnip” but the true turnip is a smaller, white root vegetable.
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National Baking Week
September 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
National Baking Week – 20th to 26th October – is a celebration of baking and what better way to use your hedgerow harvest, making crumbles, pies, muffins and much more. Baking is nostalgia. It gives a warm glow. It makes us think of family times, licking the spoon and making pastry ‘shapes’ to bake [...]
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Great Burnet
August 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Whilst picking Brambles yesterday, I came across something I have not seen for many years….Wild Burnet. I used to pick these en masse for my father to make wine and here it was growing in the grassland near the hedgerow. The Wild Burnet or Sanguisorba Officinalis grows to around 1m tall in grassland and on [...]
