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jamanda
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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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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
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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
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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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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...

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

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

wellington womble wrote:

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!

Note that you only ever see half of the table

wellington womble

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

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 08 5:25 pm Post subject:
That's more than you can see round here! RJ, Grenwich lives in the Midlands, and goes to an organic dairy - I'll get her to reveal it's location, when she gets back from Glastonbury (and has had a shower)

Rosemary Judy

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

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 08 4:23 pm Post subject:
Thanks WW the farm shop was a disappointment - full of imported veg and salad and hardly anything local - cept the meat which looked good ! And the flour was only available in 1.5 kg bags and therfore expensive....... I did get some strawberries they had grown and picked, and some cotswold cream, for tea

mochyn

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

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 08 4:30 pm Post subject:
Well, I came back from the shop with Shropshire spuds yesterday so we were able to have local supper. Said spuds, just plain boiled (yum!) with a fry up of meat from the pig's head with our onions and broad beans. Very old fashioned but yummy.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 08 7:08 pm Post subject:

Quite easy this week.

To start globe artichoke, then omelette from our own hens' eggs* including spring onions and garlic flower buds, new potatoes cooked with mint, yellow and purple mange tout, French beans, green and yellow courgettes, multi-coloured carrots, various lettuce leaf salad with water cress - all home grown and served with our own blackberry wine#.

* - unfortunately I've no idea where the poultry food came from for our hens although they have mostly been eating slugs, snails and grass seeds from the garden recently.

# - home-grown blackberries but the sugar came from much further afield than 50 miles.

Azura Skye

Joined: 14 Jun 2005
Posts: 2199
Location: Carmarthenshire

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 08 7:14 pm Post subject:
well - it was pretty good for us tonight, salad with all the herbs from the garden, with eggs from our new chooks, a cabbage and new potatoes, oh and celery! : ) the herbs were marjoram, winter savoury, basil, parsley, chives, fennel - anything I could find. other condiments certainly were not local - but ain't it a pure joy to pick from the garden and eat? : D

wellington womble

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

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 08 9:11 pm Post subject:
The official meal is tommorow, but tonights was quite close - garden herby salad, salmon (I know!) local new spuds (Whitchurch Farm, 10 miles) dressing with herbs from the garden, allowed oil and not-allowed lemon juice. Still haven't solved the salad dressing problem. Was yummy, though. Wish my lemon tree would hurry and grow some lemons...........

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