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Well I promised an update on my entries to the home brewing competition but I thought I’d take the opportunity to do a little more than an update. I thought this was a good chance to talk about what it’s like to enter a home brewing competition and what to […]
Everybody loves pizza. It’s one of the facts of the world but sometimes you want that pizza hit but maybe you don’t want to eat a whole pizza (I can’t imagine that’s ever true). So the solution, Pizza Muffins. Pizza muffins are really simple to make and are a brilliant […]
We eat a lot of relishes, chutneys and pickles, but it’s not something we’ve ever tried to make so today I decided I’d have a bit of a look around the internet to see what was involved with the aim of using up the last of the marmande tomatoes from […]
We mentioned earlier in the blog that we were having to come up with ideas for using up courgettes. Well the problem now is beetroot. We have tons of the stuff. So Kate and I have challenged ourselves to come up with 5 things to do with beetroot. Today it’s […]
The big day has come and only just gone which meant we got to enjoy giving our wedding guests the bride ale we created in their honour. You can read about its creation in a previous blog post: Brewing up a bride ale We had decided a while back that we […]
It seems that the courgettes are back on form this year after a bit of a poor showing last year. The plants have only been flowering for a few weeks and already we’re struggling to eat all of them before we have another ready to harvest. The solution – courgette […]
Firstly I should probably do the announcement, Kate and I are getting married. Letting you in on that little secret might explain the rest of this post :0) There are two camps to this little piece of brewing history but as I’m neither a historian nor have I made any […]
This year’s experiment was to grow the flowers for our hanging baskets ourselves rather than buy plants from our local garden centre. This would be the first time we’d grown flowers from seed so it was a bit of l new adventure for us and as usual I went into […]
I was going to give you a very quick update on the garden today as things do seem to be coming along nicely but in looking at the photos to post it struck me that there is maybe a topic I could talk about that might be of help to […]
It’s dark and cold and the snow has just started falling in Edinburgh so it’s time for some “proper stodge”. You know, the warming, comfort food that is described as “sticks to your ribs”. That’s the stuff I’m talking about. One of our favourite comfort foods is Kate’s slow-cooked brisket. […]
