General Chat

Cowberries are red berries that grow on the upland moors, amongst the heather and white grass. You usually find them close to blaeberries - they are absolutely delicious and make a day on the grouse moor bearable :-)

no, not a trained chef at all, lol, just like cooking stuff that i've shot, snared, grown or picked myself, :-)

Ewick ,,save me some blackberries,,,,,,without creepy crawlies on,,,,,,,,plz,,,,,,,,,:}

NP. I like to make bramble ice cream, and dribble hazelnut chocolate over it.....will that do OK?

Or do you prefer them with plain ice cream, or just lightly dusted with sugar and a sprig of fresh mint...?

No I dont like them,,nor icecream,or cream ,they was for him indoors,,ha ha,,,,,,,,,,,

all the more for me then :-)

I'll just save you some of the venison pie and pheasant burgers then :-)

like the nuts though,,do you grow them yourself,,,,,,,,?~

No, just collect them from the woods and hedgerows.

Eldrick - I want to marry you and have your babies!!! lol

Small problem - I am 60 and past such things.

Another alternative if you are already married - would you adopt me? lol

lol

can u drive a tractor?

Eldrick - can I ask please - are there wild mushrooms about at the moment? I ;usually pick mine at our local crematorium!! This was all fields when I was a girl and we picked all our mushrooms there. A few years back I wondered if mushrooms were still there so up I went and sure enough, I picked pounds - not so many last year for some reason. Just wondered if they are about at the moment please

Hi Anne - yes, I've picked a lot of field mushrooms in the past 2 weeks.

Much earlier than they normally appear :-)

right - I shall be tip toeing through the gravestones tomorrow!!!! let you know how many I get!!!

We did this in the mid 80's had 10 acres but raised and slaughtered our own beasties too.

Eldrick makes it sound like heaven but I have to say with 3 small children it was bloomin' hard work. We did enjoy it but I can tell you John Seymour has a lot to answer for :-((

Sue

lol - Ive jsut got myself to bother about and all the time in the world....so Im lucky in that its dead easy for me.

I suppose its a form of inverse snobbery in a way - I have this thing about supermarkets and big businesses - its my way of saying I dont need you and your clingfilm and dead straight cucumbers, lol

And I dont! But I realise that in many ways I am lucky to be able to do it - having said that, I've worked towards it all my life so its not as if it arrived on a plate.

Thats it Im moving to where you live Eldrick, Im very quiet and quite domesticated......


Sounds truly wonderful....
my dream,

Caz xxx

We had 2 acres devoted to organic veg which we used to sell to people in the village. Because we used no pesticides I was known as the 'slug lady'...nice!

BTW if it walked, swam, crawled or flew we ate it. I can remember swinging on the end of a 5' shark (hanging high up in the barn) trying to skin the blasted thing. It took my sister and I both hanging on to the pliers to even get a strip off! The shark was free so we were determined to eat it which we did!

Nowadays I couldn't swing on the end of anything :-((

lol

I know what you mean - if you've harvested it, caught it or grown it yourself, it tastes better for some reason.

I make my own bread - with a breadmaker - and wake up every other morning to the smell of freshly baked bread. Lovely. And cheap!

I keep a yeast culture going all the time.....:-)

I know I'm due some fresh honey soon, which I will swap for a couple of plump trout out of the freezer.

Freshly baked, still warm bread, with butter on it and drizzled with honey - sitting outside in the garden to eat it, with some freshly made coffee.....no traffic, no noise other than the birds and the odd lamb in the distance...

Yes, I think I like it here :-)

We had 30 plus chickens and used to preserve the glut in isingglass (fairly terrifying when we started to use them but perfectly preserved).

The geese HATED all of us except OH. Our Guernsey used to spot us going into the bottom field and would steam towards us and literally skid to a halt so she could walk with us. The other three cattle just used to look at us with what can only be described as bemusement.

OH hated the sheep because they are so thick! We had a stream at the bottom of the land over which we had fishing rights, sadly not many brown trout were left in there.

The big sow which we kept from slaughtering was kept in her designated area by an electric fence. When she was ready to go to the boar in the village we took the electric fence down and the blasted thing wouldn't go near where the fence was. It took 6 brawny men to get her loaded onto the trailer. Then to add insult to injury we kept her with the boar for 3 months (paid for her feed and the boar's) and she didn't want to know!

It was a steep learning curve although we had kept chickens and pigs before but we did enjoy it and the kids had a wonderful upbringing - without the desire for material things.

I envy you really :-((

Can you grow tabaccoo ?