Cooking
Homemade Sweet and Sour Chicken
This is so superb, trust me. You may (indeed may not) like your local Chinese Sweet and Sour, but after you have made this, you will probably stick to homemade. This is for four adult [more…]
Cooking
Cooking
A View From (Almost Opposite) The Greenhouse; A Massacre Of Innocents
I’m pretty sure it was one of “The Merry Pranksters” and, if my memory serves (which it rarely does these days unless it’s a Temptations or Bob Dylan lyric, or how much a pint was [more…]
Cooking
A View (Several Miles Away) From The Greenhouse; Back In’t Saddle
We’re into “proper” autumn now and there’s little left to do in the greenhouse, apart from occasionally water the last of the tomatoes, keep an eye on the pepper and chilli plot, do a bit [more…]
Cooking
Steak à la carte
I set before the Puffinati assembled a little piece of nourishment backed up with some history. A story as to how a piece of steak came to be one of the most famous dishes in [more…]
Authoritarianism
A View From (Somewhere In The Area Of) The Greenhouse; We’re All “Far Right” Now….Innit?
Life carries on apace and, as things start to slow down a little in the greenhouse I find myself having time to venture out into the countryside, along with my camera, and visit the odd [more…]
Cooking
A View From The Greenhouse; Cultural…..Innit?
The weather maps glow red to black, yet here in my little corner of North West England the wet summer days blend, almost seamlessly, into each other. At least there’s plenty of grass for my [more…]
Cooking
Real Men Eat Curry (or, in this case, Aduk Ayam Goreng Basah)
The splendid Tachybaptus recently posted a recipe on this very blog for the ever-controversial quiche. “Real men eat quiche”, was the surprisingly strident assertion accompanying the article – a bold claim indeed. However, as it [more…]
Cooking
A View From (Almost Opposite) The Greenhouse; Will A Tide Turn?
The weather continues to perplex and frustrate in equal measure. Just over a month ago I was writing about the greenhouse being unbearable to work in, past noon, as temperatures climbed into the low hundreds [more…]
Animals
A View From The Greenhouse; Global Warming,,,,,,Innit?
The time of abundance is mostly upon us, potatoes, more beans than one can shake a stick at, strawberries, courgettes, beetroot, spinach, chard, radish, leaves of many and various kinds and even a couple of [more…]