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judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 3:47 pm Post subject:
What sort of sports?

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 5:29 pm Post subject:
managed it today ( only week 2 I know ) tea here is pork chops from the farm in next village spuds from plot broad beans and carrots grown in farm shop's fields and we shall be drinking homebrewed Pink Plum ( plums from friends cottage on edge of village)

happytechie

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

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 7:55 pm Post subject:
We failed again Seemed silly not to have the spuds, for the sake of it being a totally local meal, as they'll not keep until we get back. We should have more luck when we're back from the holidays. This is Fee, btw, if I sign Happytechie out on his laptop he gets all grumpy

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 8:19 pm Post subject:
Got tomorrow's breakfast sorted. Left over mashed spuds from tonight's tea (rathfriland queens 4miles) made into potato bread with flour milled in belfast (25 miles) S&P and some local butter I managed to find in the greengrocers of all places. bacon from an organic farm in strangford (approx 18 miles) and eggs from the back garden. yay!

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 8:27 pm Post subject:
What happened to the lobster?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 8:56 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

What happened to the lobster?

Thermidore. The white wine wasn't local, so couldn't convince myself it was fair to claim, as we could have chosen a different recipe - cold with home made mayo and salad for example.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 08 11:39 am Post subject:

Here's my week two effort.

The globe artichoke wasn't planned, but the gales at the weekend blew down most of my best artichoke plant

Butter (including the butter all over my knife

) from Westry Roberts & Co of Whitchurch, bought from cheese stall on the market.

Main course was smoked trout fillet from the Chirk Trout Farm, via the fishmonger in Welshpool, with a little tarragon mayonnaise (salt and oil from allowance, egg, tarragon and lemon juice all home-produced). Served with minted new potatoes, plus braised leeks, carrots and peas all from the garden. Bread with flour from Bacheldre Mill. Elderflower cordial to drink.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 08 11:42 am Post subject:
Very nice. Home produced lemon juice? There's posh now.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 08 11:43 am Post subject:
Did you not notice all the citrus groves when we were in Wales?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 08 11:56 am Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Very nice. Home produced lemon juice? There's posh now.

The tree is OH's pride and joy. About the only gardening he ever does. I'm hoping the lime tree will do something other than drop fruitlets all over the carpet this year!

wellington womble

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

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 08 5:03 pm Post subject:
The last remaining (green) lemon has diassapeared off my tree. I think the gales here did for it - there's no sign if it anywhere!

wellington womble

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

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 08 6:36 pm Post subject:

Aha - we will be having a qualifiying meal this week. Tonight's CBA supper will be omlettes - eggs from Mill farm down the road, bacon from foxbury farm (30miles, IIRC) chives, parsely and anything else I fancy from the garden, possibly goats cheese from Rowan Tree Goat farm, 9 miles. Salad also from the garden.

Haven't found a solution to the vinegar problem yet, Aspalls is in suffolk. Must check out the chiltern brewery for beers, too.

No photos, as A) my meals are not served as poshly as Judiths and Jamandas, and B) I can't see my kitchen table to set anyway!

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 08 7:05 pm Post subject:
We did another! Bacon and liver kebabs, ruby chard and spuds.

Rosemary Judy

Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 1215
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 08 10:04 am Post subject:

This is a really interesting thread, and so far I have been just searching for more local stuff.
I think I have found a more local source of flour, and will be visiting a farm shop which is also a pick your own place on my way home from work tomorrow night.

www.maltkilnfarmshop.co.uk

I can already do local meat, from a farm three miles away, salad from my garden, cold pressed rape seed oil from another local farm, a local goats cheese, and strawberries from another farm shop.
would drink water, but can't at present due to something contaminating it

Can't find local butter/cream, and of course I have my own eggs, and a lot of salad and veg and fruit from my garden and allotment.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 08 10:12 am Post subject:

I don't think we'll be able to do one this week: to get hold of local flour/spuds/dairy I'd have to drive 27 miles, while I have non-local flour and spuds already in the house and can get Calon Wen/Rachel's dairy at the shop 7 miles away this afternoon.

However, every meal this week has had:
Our own meat
Our own eggs
Our strawberries/broad beans/onions etc.

So if I balanced out the week the majority of what we've consumed has been local. This is the norm for us, and I suspect is for many others such as judith.

Next time I'm somewhere that I can get local carbs/dairy or whatever I will, though...

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