Snow and mud

We had our first snow of the autumn last week though it was hardly anything to worry me. A light sprinkling through the night which was gone by 11am. It added to the already wet ground. We have however endured a couple of weeks of rain so the ground is an enormous mudbath. As Spotless, our billy goat, is all white, the mud on him stands out!

BLT soup

I had a load of lettuces that needed using up so I came up with the idea of a soup version of the famous bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

In the kitchen yesterday

I had quite a busy day in the kitchen yesterday. I made 14 jars of crab apple jelly, pork stock, ricotta cheese and hedgerow fruit puree. The puree is a side product from making hedgerow jelly. It has now been frozen but will eventually be used in sauces and to flavour ice cream.

Quail egg salad

Most of our quails have stopped laying for the year but we still have quite a few eggs from the late summer to use up. Today I boiled 72 of them. They were added to some boiled potatoes, some chopped spring onions and some chopped salami (which, I confess, I did not make as it came from a supermarket). Quail egg salad for lunch. Very nice!

Pasta bake

Earlier this week we made a pasta bake. It was a tasty way to use up more of our ricotta cheese and goats milk. It did us for 2 meals. Definitely one to repeat.

Not quite what we planned

On Monday I made hedgerow jelly. Or at least I thought I had, except for the fact it did not set. It's not being wasted however. I am using it as a "fruits of the forest" syrup. It will be used on ice cream and other desserts and I will also have a go at using it to flavour vinegar.

First frost

It's November and we had our first frost of the autumn this morning. It won't last long. There is not a cloud in the sky so any frost will be burnt off the moment it's in direct sunlight.