Frittata from leftovers

Fried up the leftover onion and mush, stirred in the leftover broccoli.


Cracked three eggs, stirred in some pepper and salt and poured over.


Turn it, cook off the top and we're done!


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Another sunny winter's day photo

Too good to waste, again


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A sunny winter's day and a garden

Too good to waste.


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Cooking tragic in winter

I know. These posts only really come out in winter time. But to take a couple of chicken frames and turn them into beautiful stock. Heaven.


Frames, onion, carrot, celery, bay, parsley, pepper and a fair bit of technique.

So the chicken meat is in the fridge. We might even make some pies from it.

But the stock will be great to turn those pumpkins into soup and I just found out its a great tool to turn some mince and vegetables into pasty filling.

So here's to cold weather comfort food. And the foundation is a good stock.

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Mandarins first fruit

Had the tree for about three years. So it's good that we now have fruit. And it looks like it'll be good. I think the furry, hairy mandarins come from nutrition deficiencies (especially zinc and manganese) and I think I crunched that.


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Mandarins first fruit

Had the tree for about three years. So it's good that we now have fruit. And it looks like it'll be good. I think the furry, hairy mandarins come from nutrition deficiencies (especially zinc and manganese) and I think I crunched that.


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A downside of chickens

Small price to pay, I suppose. But I let these girls out for at least an hour a day and they keep the slaters and millipedes low.


See how they scratch into to deepest little recesses. Great.



But they also like the growing foliage of these newly planted artichokes. And my half hearted efforts to guard them were easily thwarted.

Now I know it's a real problem I'll need to get a little more clever.

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