Category: FOOD
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Watch “Digging Early Crop Spuds – on wheels!” on YouTube
My first attempt at using a GoPro – well, a cheaper version of same, to be truthful – so please be kind! Here, you get a steering-eye view as I dig and wash two thirds of our Early Crop spuds. Sown on March 13th, harvested on July 14th, yielding 56 potatoes in total, with the […]
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I felt like chicken that night
This was actually filmed last week but yours truly was too much under the weather to upload it. So a bit of a bonus extra here as the good lady let me loose in the kitchen again. The only way spicy chicken could possibly be made any better was by me spicing it myself! Perfect […]
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Machinery Preparation and What’s In The Pipeline
As many of you will know by now, life has improved immeasurably since acquiring the assistance of a new care company earlier this year. It’s not just in terms of the ‘normal’ issues Personal Assistants usually offer help with. As evidenced by today’s afternoon call which saw very useful modifications carried out in the shed […]
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Watch “The Grand Old Dukes Of York” on YouTube
So much of farming – no matter what sector thereof you’re in or to what level – depends on the weather playing ball with you. Today, that meant getting a crop of Duke Of York sown before the predicted rainfall of the weekend comes in.
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We Are Sowing
A day I have longed for, honestly since we closed up the shed last winter, crop sowing for 2021 has begun. While I was in Rehab yesterday, Susie was busily getting my escape hatch ready for me to get stuck straight into bagging, sowing and fertilising our first crop of Kerr Pinks. It’s not the […]
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Valentine’s Day Lunch
Do not adjust your sets. What you see before you is real. For the day that was in it yesterday I had a go at making lunch for my lovely lady. The least I could do to repay just a fraction of the way in which she has turned my life upside down for the […]
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Pork Belly on wheels
Boylan Does Dinner…Again! Trying another bit of cooking this evening, obviously with the help of the first lady! Having seen several chef’s on YouTube doing dishes with Belly Pork, it was always something a go was going to be had at. Initially that would’ve meant in terms of eating it, but, by the day, Susie […]
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Sowing the seeds on the road to God knows where
While in the vast majority of ways it could be said that the vast majority of the most recent Christmas/New Year period passed off peacefully in these quarters, there was the not-so-small matter of the senior bossman here having an unwanted meeting with – and kicking the ass of – Covid-19. Having something like that […]
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Watch “Every Journey Has To Start Somewhere” on YouTube
Into the shed for the first time in earnest this year. Starting to give it a good clean up as preparations begin for this year’s farming journey. Wherever it may lead…
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Two pillars of the Irish staple diet
So much of life is based around routine. It’s made easier by it. Conversely, when one’s expected incarnation of ‘normal’ is knocked out of kilter it can have a wholly debilitating effect on the person involved. Change doesn’t have to be a bad thing but it can take a serious amount of adjusting to. Believe […]