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judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 08 10:12 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

No photos, as A) my meals are not served as poshly as Judiths and Jamandas, and B) I can't see my kitchen table to set anyway!

Note that you only ever see half of the table

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 08 5:25 pm Post subject:
That's more than you can see round here! RJ, Grenwich lives in the Midlands, and goes to an organic dairy - I'll get her to reveal it's location, when she gets back from Glastonbury (and has had a shower)

Rosemary Judy

Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 1215
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 08 4:23 pm Post subject:
Thanks WW the farm shop was a disappointment - full of imported veg and salad and hardly anything local - cept the meat which looked good ! And the flour was only available in 1.5 kg bags and therfore expensive....... I did get some strawberries they had grown and picked, and some cotswold cream, for tea

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 08 4:30 pm Post subject:
Well, I came back from the shop with Shropshire spuds yesterday so we were able to have local supper. Said spuds, just plain boiled (yum!) with a fry up of meat from the pig's head with our onions and broad beans. Very old fashioned but yummy.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 08 7:08 pm Post subject:

Quite easy this week.

To start globe artichoke, then omelette from our own hens' eggs* including spring onions and garlic flower buds, new potatoes cooked with mint, yellow and purple mange tout, French beans, green and yellow courgettes, multi-coloured carrots, various lettuce leaf salad with water cress - all home grown and served with our own blackberry wine#.

* - unfortunately I've no idea where the poultry food came from for our hens although they have mostly been eating slugs, snails and grass seeds from the garden recently.

# - home-grown blackberries but the sugar came from much further afield than 50 miles.

Azura Skye

Joined: 14 Jun 2005
Posts: 2199
Location: Carmarthenshire

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 08 7:14 pm Post subject:
well - it was pretty good for us tonight, salad with all the herbs from the garden, with eggs from our new chooks, a cabbage and new potatoes, oh and celery! : ) the herbs were marjoram, winter savoury, basil, parsley, chives, fennel - anything I could find. other condiments certainly were not local - but ain't it a pure joy to pick from the garden and eat? : D

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 08 9:11 pm Post subject:
The official meal is tommorow, but tonights was quite close - garden herby salad, salmon (I know!) local new spuds (Whitchurch Farm, 10 miles) dressing with herbs from the garden, allowed oil and not-allowed lemon juice. Still haven't solved the salad dressing problem. Was yummy, though. Wish my lemon tree would hurry and grow some lemons...........

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