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Gardening, Greenhouse

Quadgrow-plus: greenhouse gadgets galore

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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 […]

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Plate of kanelbullar
Food & Drink, Recipe, Sweet

Making my own kanelbullar

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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 […]

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Tomato and red pepper soup
Food & Drink, Recipe, Savoury

Tomato and red pepper soup

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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 […]

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Food & Drink, Recipe, Savoury

An adventure with sourdough

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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 […]

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Scottish tablet
Food & Drink, Recipe, Sweet

Traditional Scottish Tablet Recipe

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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 […]

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Jars of pickled gherkins
Food & Drink, Recipe, Savoury

Growing and pickling your own gherkins

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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 […]

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