It has been a while - I am sorry - been busy writing and, after a while of that, anything with words becomes too hard to do.

I thought I’d pop up some of my recent culinary adventure recipes.

Haw sauce.
This makes a wonderful fragrant sauce which you can use with pork. It is fiddly, [...]

It is close enough to be being finished to pop up some photos. You will note in the following that I have carefully not shown the fireplace which still needs work. Hopefully I will get up some recipes tomorrow.

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Here is the main work area. I love the lighting. [...]

I might take some photos of the kitchen and put them up. I also have a raft of recipes I’ve been toying about with, and general gossip. Sorry I haven’t blogged lately - life has just got in the way (every spare moment I’ve had has been spent in preserving … I’ve thought, do [...]

I spent the weekend preserving - tomato ketchup and pickled garlic. Here are the recipes.

Tomato Ketchup

Either you will like this or you won’t - it is very sweet, which I love, but others say they think it is too sweet. But don’t cut down on the sugar as that is one of the preservatives in [...]

No, no kitchen photos yet. Sorry. I am waiting on the builder to do the last 10%.

I thought I’d update on my progress on the self-sufficiency experiment. I wanted to become 100% self-sufficient in vegetables this year, and about 40% in fruit. Inevitably, I was over-optimistic.

I am doing well on the vegies. [...]