• pickled wild garlic buds

    Pickled wild garlic buds.

    Published On: April 5, 2023Categories: Foraging For Food, Preserves, Recipes

    My aim is to be more organised for next winter and make sure that we have enough preserved food for the 'hunger gap' that occurs between us eating most of my crops (usually by the [...]

  • Sweet Chilli Sauce

    Published On: February 23, 2023Categories: Preserves, Recipes

    One way that we like to preserve some of our chilli harvest is to make sweet chilli sauce.  We use it a lot.  It is nice in wraps with salad and chicken, we put some [...]

  • Lemon (or orange, or almond, or vanilla) Extract

    Published On: February 2, 2023Categories: Baking, Preserves

    I am striving all the time to buy less and less from the supermarket.  We use extract to flavour ice cream, icing and sometimes in cakes.  This is an easy recipe to make.  I have [...]

  • Lemon Curd for Hampers

    Published On: December 21, 2022Categories: Frugal Festivities, Preserves, Recipes

    I have sometimes found myself a couple of days before Christmas and I find myself without enough preserves for my hampers. This is a quick and easy alternative to spending hours making jam and you [...]

  • WILD GARLIC

    Published On: October 11, 2022Categories: Foraging For Food, Preserves, Recipes

    WILD GARLIC The woods are full of wild garlic near me and so we picked some whilst on our daily walk.  If you intend to pick some make sure you pick away from the paths [...]

  • Apple Cider Vinegar

    Published On: September 29, 2022Categories: Foraging For Food, Preserves

    I  hate waste and like to use up every bit of every thing that I have. Today I made a lot of raspberry and apple compote to water bath from some foraged apples and raspberries [...]