Pig Keepers Cut
When you kill a pig and are lucky enough to get everything back from your butcher you should have included shanks and hocks....
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My Little Milly
This evening last week I was going crazy looking for you. In and out calling your name. The last time I saw you, you were skulking...
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The Circle is Closed
L to R Quacks, Stumpy, Red lad and The Bullied One The circle of life. It closed on Monday. The Kells 12 who became the Kells 11 and...
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It seems a strange question. But. What is a farm? Recently the word farm has been hijacked by the big multi national supermarkets in...
read moreSmallholders of Ireland
Back a couple of years ago I curated the Smallholders UK Twitter account. At the time I had no pigs as they had gone to slaughter but...
read moreChicken Tagine
This is a lovely summer dish which can be adapted to a winter warmer easily. The key is to use the best chicken you can find....
read moreMarscapone Leek and Walnut Can...
Being a vegetarian and eating out must be such a bore. Very often it’s really hard to get much more than a stir fry or a...
read moreInstagramming 2015
Instagram. In the beginning I didn’t get it. I found it intensely frustrating having to click on photos and wait for them to...
read moreWeekend in Manchester
Stunning views of the city from Cloud 23 I spent a recent weekend in Manchester. Probably not the best time of year to visit any city...
read morePumpkin Lunch at Virginia Park...
Facing Lough Ramor Virginia Park Lodge originally the shooting, hunting, fishing lodge of the Marquis of Headfort and in...
read moreWorld Animal Week
This week from the 4th to the 10th of October is World Animal Week. Last week I shared several posts from an animal sanctuary based...
read moreHonky Needs a Job
entente cordiale with the dogs Honky Tonk is a 5 week old piglet who was rejected by her mother at birth. She then developed scour...
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The Kells 12 are one month old today. The 12 are now sadly 11. Well 10 and Honky Tonk. (When my mother was a child her uncle when...
read moreWhat They Say
Courtesy of Marie McKenna They said it couldn’t be done. When I was a child my mother met my teacher in the local supermarket....
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Landscape designer turned food scientist, turned food blogger, turned food fanatic. Grows, rears, bakes, makes, brews, pickles and preserves food. Never gives up until a recipe works but almost never follows one. 
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