Category: FOOD
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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…
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All cards on the table
In today’s video, we have a mixture of what has got me through this strangest of winters and a glimpse of what lies ahead going forward. We have our first unboxing of the new year as preparations for Spring sowing begin in earnest. And there’s also a look at a new pass time, which has…
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Cabbage Packed And Crops Wrapped Up
And so we arrive at the end of the first season working with vegetable crops. I say season rather than year as it was, after all, midsummer before we got going. From then, there’s been ups, downs, a lot of learning and an even greater amount of therapy.
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Indoor Vegetable Harvest
Unfortunately, I have to admit to being a little bit under the black cloud again over the last while, but my beautiful lady is not only guiding me back to a more peaceful place in mind but gently coaxed and persuaded me back out to the vegetable crops again. Now, naturally, as has always been…
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Meals On Wheels!
Another first for me on Monday evening folks as I was let loose in the kitchen and given the opportunity to make dinner for the most special lady anyone was ever blessed to have enter their lives. Now, the brief was to come up something on the more healthy side but the mischievous rogue in…
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Vegetable Therapy Shed Style
After a hectic and exhausting few days in the office it was out to the shed to do another bit on the other side of the business. The coffee-cup holder came to the rescue again with the filling of seedling trays. However, today we took matters on a bit further and managed to get Pak…
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More Sunday Sowing Improvisation
The days may be getting shorter and colder but the whole idea of the shed project was to have somewhere and, perhaps most importantly, something to do over the longest-feeling months of the year, especially with GAA, horse racing and cattle off the agenda. You’ve seen some of the evolving ideas we’ve been experimenting with…
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Nailed On Progress
As is often the case in this position, best laid plans for the day had to be pulled up like a horse struggling with unsuitable ground. However, the great thing about where life currently sits – in one way at least – that there is always something to be done by way of whiling away…
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The Soup Spoon Rides Again
Today was all about winter crops and longer-term planning. I prep some seedling trays – using my unconventional small ‘shovel’ – whilst Susie was busy organising the seed boxes with winter sowing about to begin. Then, in a slight hint to what will hopefully be in the pipeline going forward, the near-91-year-old gets in on…
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Everything is on the table
Today we have an update on our cabbage crop and autumn/winter sowing plans. Then, there’s a bit of a teaser about the new direction in which we hope and expect we should be able to take things. And, at this point in time, absolutely nothing is off the table. AN SB PARTNERSHIP PRODUCTION FILMED, EDITED…