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judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 08 12:38 pm Post subject:

Managed 3 courses last night - there's posh.

Potted pork on toast (remains of Sunday's roast loin (home-reared), minced up and mixed with a goodly chunk of softened butter (Whitchurch), S&P and chopped sage from the garden. Bread home-made.)

HFW's beetroot soup with feta (beetroot from Llanyblodwel Farm Shop, chicken stock and one of the last portions of last year's tomato sauce/passata from freezer, Merlin goat cheese as a reasonable substitute for feta). I've never made this before and probably could have eaten a whole panful, it was so good.

Raspberries from the garden with yoghurt (OK, the yoghurt was Rachel's, but I've got to get my starter for the next batch from somewhere).

No photo this time as my battery died, but it did look very pretty.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 08 5:10 pm Post subject:
Sounds lovely. Which book is the beetroot soup recipe in? I keep having an excess in the veg box.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 08 5:14 pm Post subject:
I think it's the CookBook - the one with all the smallholding tips, anyway (my copy has lost its slip cover!).

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 08 7:45 pm Post subject:

Well, four weeks in and we've finally managed a totally local meal

Wildwoods' pork (will check miles again shortly)
Spuds (garden)
Kale (garden)
Broad beans (garden)

I used a bit of meat juice instead of butter on the spuds and the pork was so succulent, it didn't need any gravy, but I added a little bit of meaty juice to that aswell anyway

Pudding was a garden fruit salad of strawberries, gooseberries, blackcurrant, whitecurrant, blueberry (one of

) and sorrel.

YummmmmmY

AND, I remembered to take pics

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 08 7:48 pm Post subject:
Yum! I must sow some more kale. And plant out the first lot........

happytechie

Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 408
Location: Surrey (at the mo.)

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 08 7:48 pm Post subject:
Tasted even better than it looked amazingly well done Fee for saving all those food miles Apparently I had the blueberry, it's flavor was buried under the stawbs and blackcurrant I think. I can recommend sorrel with fresh fruit

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 08 7:53 pm Post subject:
I forgot to mention that the leg of pork had been rubbed with crushed fennel seeds, from the garden last year. It's the first year we've done kale, and I'll never forget again, must be our most eaten veg so far this year! Fortunately, we both love it

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 08 8:13 am Post subject:

That looks goooood. Well done.

happytechie wrote:

Apparently I had the blueberry

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 08 9:29 pm Post subject:
Joined in unintentionally this evening. Rack of lamb from next door neighbours, potatoes, cabbage and mange tout peas from garden. Definitely food feet rather than miles!

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