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Sausage Rolls with Pear, Stilton, and Sage

09/11/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

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Now that the clocks have turned back and the nights are continuing to draw in, everything is beginning to slow down here on the smallholding. We’re no longer rushing to harvest and process vegetables from the raised beds, or fruits from the orchard. The honeybees are hunkered down for the cold months so, aside from…

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Herbed Omelette with Griddled Courgette, Halloumi, and Nasturtiums

30/07/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Herbed Omelette with Griddled Courgette, Halloumi, and Nasturtiums -- In a skillet -- Seasonal Food | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/brunch/herbed-omelette-with-griddled-courgette-halloumi-and-nasturtiums/

One of the lovely things about growing our own food is being able to pop outside and literally pick our own meals. Breakfasts, lunches and dinners are built around whatever is flourishing or newly appearing in the veg beds, orchard and herb patch at any given point in time. Yesterday morning, before the rain came,…

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A Spring Salad

22/05/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

A Spring Salad -- serve fresh -- Seasonal Food | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/savoury/a-spring-salad/

Chive flowers are top contenders for our favourite edible bloom. They taste great – a gentle, onion-like flavour, but without the sharpness or pungency of an actual onion. And they look pretty. The rounded heads of blossom break into tiny handfuls of translucent, papery flowers, each one striped dark lilac, with a little grassy tail…

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Rhubarb, Wild Watermint and Ginger Crumble

10/05/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

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Wild watermint grows along our stream edge. It quietly rises from the banks and within the shallows in swathes during early April. We’re usually alerted to it’s seasonal arrival by accidentally treading on a patch of emerging leaves, releasing a heady aroma into the air. The flavour is reminiscent of peppermint, but perhaps with a…

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Gorse Flower and Raw Honey Mojito

26/04/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

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Last weekend we made gorse flower rum. High up in the hills and woodland, the gorse bushes were blanketed in bright, canary-yellow petals. The individual blooms have a fragile scent that echoes a combination of coconut, vanilla and pineapple. And the collective fragrance of a whole gorse bush, amplified by the warmth of sunshine, reminds…

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Wild Garlic, Nettle, Dandelion and Goose Egg Tart

12/04/2017 By The Seasonal Table 1 Comment

Wild Garlic, Nettle, Dandelion and Goose Egg Tart -- Seasonal Food | http://theseasonaltable.co.uk/savoury/wild-garlic-nettle-dandelion-and-goose-egg-tart/

Spring is fully under way here in the hills of rural Somerset. Everything is fresh, green and hopeful. The first of the orchard blossom is decorating the plum and cherry trees, swathes of wild garlic line the stream, and masses of feathery young nettles have appeared along the hedgerows.

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We're Kathy and Tom and we live in the hills of rural Somerset, England. The Seasonal Table is our blog about slow food and slow living. It is a journal of seasonal recipes, featuring organically home grown, wild-harvested, or locally sourced ingredients, and a collection of smallholding stories and activities. Read More…

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Worms! We invested in a wormery at the start of th Worms! We invested in a wormery at the start of the year as a way of making vermicompost (a much more powerful and nutrient-rich product than that which can be produced in our main compost bins). Initially we were a little downhearted about it - the worms were slow to get going, there was a couple of unpleasant fruit-fly cloud incidents, and the stack of plastic trays isn’t the most attractive addition to the garden, but we kept adding small amounts of shredded paper and chopped kitchen scraps, and suddenly the worms got into their stride. Our wiggly pals have now made several trays of dark and deeply rich compost, which we’ve sprinkled onto the veg patch to boost the growth of the crops, as well as a liquid feed that can be tapped off as needed. It’s a brilliant way to put our food waste to good use and put it back into the growing system. We might have to add wormery number 2 to our Christmas list!
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A rare picture of the two of us together, which we A rare picture of the two of us together, which we took for our Christmas feature (A Somerset Festive Feast) in this month’s issue of BBC Countryfile Magazine. The article includes a few of our favourite winter recipes from pan-fried chicken (with crispy sage, bacon, and apple balsamic vinegar) to poached pears with bay, honey, cinnamon and home brewed cider.
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The sheep are very partial to wild blackberry leav The sheep are very partial to wild blackberry leaves. At this time of year, when the grass growth slows and hay is the main feed for the flock, the green foliage makes a particularly welcome fresh snack. One of the reasons we chose to keep Shetland sheep was because of their foraging abilities- they certainly haven’t let us down!
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As the cooler weather makes itself comfortable, we As the cooler weather makes itself comfortable, we’re lighting the log burners in the cottage almost every day. This means regular - often torchlit - wellie-booted trips to the logstores to fill up the wood baskets. There is a jumble of seasoned wood in the stores, but ash and beech dominate the pile at the moment. Luckily they are good ones to have; they split well, burn well (for a good length of time), and make a beautiful flame pattern. Definitely worth all the hard work of chopping, splitting, and stacking.
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A hidden nest. The egremont russet apple tree has A hidden nest. The egremont russet apple tree has now shed all but a clinging handful of curling leaves and golden fruit. Tucked among the arching branches, and looking very much a part of the tree, is this tiny nest. It is neatly woven with white hair and moss and decorated with lichen to match the tree perfectly. Its inhabitants are long flown, but we have a sneaking suspicion that it may have belonged to the chaffinches that we so often see flitting around the orchard...
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A few of the chickens gathered at the old plum tre A few of the chickens gathered at the old plum tree - a favourite flock meeting location. Most are still in the process of fluffing up after their annual moult, and none are laying at the moment, although we still check the nest boxes each evening, hopeful that one day soon the brightly-coloured eggs will start appearing again.
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