The fruit cage has made such a difference to the fruit crops. Stunning raspberries this year
Raspberry crop
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Category Archives: Ingredients
Redcurrant crop
First batch of redcurrants from the garden this year. Grown, tended and harvested by Caroline
Air-dried sausages
Free-range local pork, minced and marinated overnight in red wine, salt and saltpetre, then mixed with garlic, chilli, smoked paprika and crushed white pepper and minced again with the industrial-scale mincer and the giant sausage funnel that my dad made out of stainless steel sheet. Couldn’t get any proper casings though, next time we’ll have to make sure we find some. These are the “modern” version made from some sort of processed collagen. I prefer a nice bit of mammalian intestine!
Wild mushrooms
Wild mushrooms, picked from the orchard a few minutes ago, still damp from the morning dew. Sliced and fried with local dry-cured bacon, eggs from the hens next door and Caroline’s home made bread.
Apple crop
Newton Wonder apples picked today from the orchard. Huge crop this year, plenty to share with the birds and wasps and mice.
Medlars
Last of this year’s crop of Mespilus germanica, just on the point of bletting
Roadkill
Roadkill in my pantry. Tomorrow night’s dinner.
Feels like a Flemish still life painting circa 1620
Shopping
Garlic
Security blanket. A few days’ supply…