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Author: Eli
Encouraging birds to visit your garden
Over the past five years or so, bird song and seeing birds in the garden has become part of the joy of having a garden. Although we didn’t realise it at first, it wasn’t until we noticed that we were seeing fewer birds that we acknowledged how much we enjoyed them. We used to have a huge… Read more
Quadgrow-plus: greenhouse gadgets galore
You know I love my gadgets and this year I’ve had some fantastic success with my greenhouse gadgets (namely the quadgrow watering system). Well following on from that I treated myself to another quadgrow product, one which will house salad as well as pots for larger plants like peppers or chillies. Everything has been running so well in the… Read more
Making my own kanelbullar
Kanelbullar, Kanelsnegl or plain old cinnamon buns. A tasty treat for a winter weekend I’ve always been a huge fan of what I call cinnamon swirls (kanelsnegl, in Danish they are called cinnamon snails), you know, the Danish pastry type treats where a mix of cinnamon, butter, and sugar is swirled inside a roll of… Read more
Parlies or Parliament Cake – an old fashioned Scottish biscuit
Happy St Andrew’s day everyone. I thought in honour of the day of the Scottish patron saint (who is also the patron saint of loads of other places), I’d have a go at something a bit special, something from history… am I setting the scene? Are you excited? Parlies or Parliament Cake. I have to thank… Read more
Tomato and red pepper soup
Hygge comfort returnsIt’s that time of year again, it’s cold, blooming freezing, and it’s dark most of the time. It’s really easy during the cold autumn and winter months to get a bit low or blue and pine away wishing for spring. So to combat that, over the past couple of years, Kate and I… Read more
An adventure with sourdough
I have been on the most epic adventure over the last few weeks. Well I say few weeks, in truth this adventure started last year but it didn’t pan out, so I’ve chosen to completely gloss over it and pretend it didn’t happen. So last few weeks it is, and anyone who says otherwise is… Read more
Traditional Scottish Tablet Recipe
Tablet is a very, very, very, very, very sugary traditional Scottish sweet. Or as we say in Scotland, a sweetie. Every kid in Scotland grew up eating this stuff and it’s probably responsible for the appalling dental health of my generation and before. Before I go any further I want to just explain one thing… Read more
It’s all getting a bit exciting in the greenhouse – bell peppers in the quadgrow
Lots of excitement happening in the greenhouse this year with the arrival of our first peppers, some of which are red already 🙂 We like to try to experiment a little, it doesn’t always work to be fair, but it’s fun to try and this years experiment was sweet / bell peppers. We’ve never grown these… Read more
Cheese muffin recipe – savoury treats that you will love
If you are a regular follower of my blog, you’ll know that I am a complete muffin fiend. I can’t help it, I love eating fluffy muffins and I love baking them too. One of the things which always surprises me though is the lack of savoury muffins on offer out there. So to rectify… Read more
Growing and pickling your own gherkins
We decided that as one of our experiments this year, we’d grow our own gherkins for pickling. Specifically cornichon de paris which I really enjoy on a sandwich. A bit of research on the interweb made it all sound so simple and there were lots of recipes to choose from for the actual pickling liquor. However,… Read more
Gardening: why bother?
Because the whole point is to enjoy your garden. Every day, rain or shine, a local dog walker passes our house multiple time. If we happen to be in the front garden as she passes, she ALWAYS says the same thing to us and I mean ALWAYS. Every day. “How do you keep it looking… Read more
The HotBin composter – so what do we think 6 months on?
It seems like forever since we last spoke about the hotbin composter we are using, back then we were mostly telling you about how we were still trying to get to grips with things and how we hadn’t yet managed to get the balance right which would see the bin hit the advertised temperatures. HotBin… Read more
It’s May and finally we get some garden time!
It feels like forever since Kate and I had some garden time. It’s been a mix of my very intense studies, which pretty much take up all of my time and the fact that the weather has been pretty awful, but now that my studies are over for the summer and finally, finally the sun… Read more
Toad in the Hole recipe – perfect for St George’s day
Happy St George’s Day to all our Ar Bruadair readers who are celebrating! After the success of our St Patrick’s day and St David’s day posts, we knew we had to come up with something great for St George’s day but boy was it difficult to come up with a celebration meal that was a proper… Read more
Making paper pots for your seedlings
There is one big task I now do every year, it’s not fun and it’s quite time-consuming and that is to make all the little pots I need to plant the greenhouse seeds and flowers for the year. We used to just use standard plastic flower pots for this, but things got crazy when it… Read more
The Hotbin Composter, a midway review
Compost, compost, compost. It’s really useful stuff and coming up to the big spring planting we are going to need a lot of it. So the perfect time to give you another chance to peek into our experience of the hotbin composter. We did a small update a few weeks ago to give you some… Read more
Traditional Welsh cake recipe
Happy St David’s Day folks, we hope all our readers in Wales have a brilliant, fun-filled day planned. For the rest of us, here is a lovely little Welsh treat you can cook up to join in the fun. Welsh Cakes! If you’ve never had Welsh Cakes before, oh you have been missing out on an… Read more
Even more fun with the pasta machine
We did a couple of posts a while back about all the fun we were having with our pasta machine, making ravioli and Chinese dumplings. Last night the machine was dragged out again, this time to make tagliatelle. Fun with a pasta machine More fun with a pasta machine So if you still haven’t been brave enough… Read more