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Risotto Balls
I think I may have to rename our blog. Balls we make? It’s getting out of hand, I realise. I have leftovers, I can’t bear to waste them. I turn them into something spherical, roll them in panko crumbs and fry them. It’s becoming a habit. But hey, I created dinner out of something that […]
1st Blogiversary
May 29, 2010
** This giveaway is now complete ** Things we make We started the blog on a whim a year ago today and since then it has taken on a life of it’s own. Here are a few reminders, just click on the pictures to see a few of our exploits. From Ed and his furniture […]
Pizza…Doh
May 27, 2010
Thanks go to Lauren from Coffee Muffins blog who chose May’s Fresh From The Oven Challenge. It’s a Pizza Napoletana recipe from Peter Reinhart’s ‘The Bread Baker’s Apprentice’. You need to plan ahead a little for this one as you make the dough the day before you need it. Now I am not usually sure […]
Catapult
May 25, 2010
There once was a boy who dreamed of his own catapult. Then he remembered this… His Dangerous Book for Boys has instructions for all manner of things. Including how to make a catapult. Ed was employed to assist in the design, here you can see the ‘technical drawing’. And the offcuts from the branch cut […]
Pulled Pork
May 24, 2010
I have wanted to write a post about Pulled Pork Sandwiches for a goodly while. I wanted to try eating one for even longer. But as Derbyshire is not quite the food centre of the universe we had to make our own. Here’s the glorious shoulder of pork when it came out of the oven. It […]
Auction
May 22, 2010
Last night Friends of the school put on an Auction of Promises. Here is my offering of homegrown and homemade produce which was snapped up by our Head Teacher. It included rustic bread, bagels, tea loaf, granola, cheese straws, chutney and vegetable seedlings. George promise of ‘small pet sitting’ was bid for too, in fact […]
Cherry Table
May 18, 2010
Ed designed and made this table for our dining room a few years ago. We’d looked around a while for a ‘console’ style table but just couldn’t find one that was right, so he set about making it himself. It was featured in Furniture and Cabinetmaking magazine who asked him to write an article about […]
Chicken Balls
May 14, 2010
We had meatballs for tea. Not ordinary meatballs, but child friendly crispy roast chicken ones. This is the meat I picked off last nights leftover roast chicken. Doesn’t seem like much does it? But it’s about to make 27 tasty things. I threw it into the Food Processor and George pressed the button to smoosh it […]
Bluebell Woods
May 12, 2010
I was asked to tag along on with the school kids yesterday to our local woods. We set off first thing and it looked like we had lucked out with a sunny morning. The children were tasked with writing about the outdoors and finding similes, rhymes and alliteration. Some of them set about the task very […]
Seedy Loaf
May 8, 2010
There’s nothing very clever about this loaf. I like it because it looks impressive with very little effort. I just make a standard ‘read it off the back of the yeast packet’ bread recipe, although I have tweaked it a bit. I make up the water amount to include an egg yolk and some milk. […]
Plastered – Bathroom Part 1
May 4, 2010
Ed is self taught in most things. He watched our plasterer work his way round most of this house and then when our funds started to dry up thought “How hard can it be?” So this is a story about how Ed plasters a bathroom, from my perspective anyway. I’ve by-passed all the pre-amble about […]
Make Granola
May 3, 2010
I have been meaning to make Granola for AGES. Ever since we got addicted to Dorset Cereal Honey Granola, then realised that it costs nearly £4 a box. I finally got round to it last week and have since made a couple more batches to hone the technique. After a shout out on Twitter Apryl from […]
Chatsworth House
May 1, 2010
Deb from Fabulous Places and I visited Chatsworth House Gardens this week. It was quite a rainy old day but we were lucky and managed to dodge most of the showers. Here is a slide show of some of my photographs:
Posted in: Claire, Photography
Croissants
April 27, 2010
I only just got these made in time for the April Bake off for ‘Fresh From The Oven’. This month it was chosen by Corrie from Hot Potato Blog. I was glad it was another recipe from the River Cottage Bread Handbook as I like their recipes and find the book easy to follow, albeit […]
Chicken Satay at the BBQ
April 25, 2010
Yesterday, whilst I was wandering round the woods trying to find Ernie…again, I needed to take my mind off the fact that he might be stuck down a badger set, so I sat down and caught up with my Twitter stream. I spotted that James Brewer from ‘Back to the Chopping Board‘ was making chicken […]
Let’s Get Cooking
April 19, 2010
George started his ‘Let’s Get Cooking’ club tonight at school and came home with this lovely looking pitta bread pizza Lucky he did really, as he only has time for a quick change and something to eat then he is back out to cub scouts in half an hour. I just threw some salad at […]
Baking Addiction
April 15, 2010
I think I have some sort of baking addiction. Does that even have a name? I obviously couldn’t ‘bake’ anything whilst we were away camping because it’s all ‘boil in the bag’ rice and chilli, or sausages and ‘Smash’. I didn’t even realise what I was doing as on my return I started grabbing ingredients […]
High Peak Trip
April 13, 2010
We just had a Weekend camping at Edale in the Peak District. First we pitched our tent, with a good view of the valley: Then George paddled in the stream: Next day we went on a hike up Kinder Scout. A Gritstone plateau and the highest point in Derbyshire: The views from the top are […]
Posted in: The Suttons
Cute Garden Nemesis
April 11, 2010
We have had our first glimpse this year of the beast that stalks our garden. As we were getting ready to head off on our camping Weekend in the High Peak, there it was sunning itself in my drystone vegetable bed. It’s evil. It digs the very seeds out of my plant pots. It chops […]
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antipasti plank
whisky cupboard
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favourite brownies
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funnel cakes
laab moo
reuben sandwich
Ed on the decks
massive meatballs
apple pie
sweetcorn fritters
all day pork
rillettes
just chilli
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