It seems strange, I know, to talk of growing winter crops for the polytunnel or glasshouse, smack-bang in the middle of a very sultry Irish summer. But the simple truth is that the secret to making the best, and most productive use, of these valuable covered growing spaces throughout the year has always been to plan and propagate very far ahead.
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So I clearly got bored of logging our weekly activity…or inactivity, due to the restrictions. I am still super busy but our house routines are now very set and it does seem to suit the boys (or one of them, anyway).
What we are eating:
I had to stop baking sweet things as it seems we have no willpower. One of the last bakes was blueberry crumble muffins by (again) Ottolenghi. I made wild garlic and cheese muffins the same day and we hoovered those too.
We had another birthday and that has been the only other bake (except bread) over the past few weeks – Delia’s Ultimate Carrot Cake. Scrumtious.
I bake bread twice a week using a sourdough starter that I keep in the fridge. I’m lazy so I keep it simple. Recipe to follow.
I now get a delivery a week from Ocado. We often get substitutions and a few missing items but nothing we haven’t been able to manage and I make a point of using up everything, including making stock from the bones, which is something I always done anyway.
Jamie Oliver ran a few campaigns to save British farms and I was happy to support those. We bought a fish box from Chalk Stream trout farms and I was VERY happy with the fish that arrived. I’ve also started getting a monthly meat box via Field and Flower as I wanted to buy the duck box they were selling to support another farm. The meat box has been a real hit for us, it’s not cheap but high quality meat, fish and cheese shouldn’t be and I’m happily to supplement our regular food shopping with a monthly delivery of such delicious food, knowing I’m supporting small British producers. Field and Flower sell Chalk Stream too so in future I can support them this way too.
Food has been our main expense over the past few weeks. Having the boys home all of the time
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