Pheasant soup

More use for the two pheasants we had recently: pheasant soup. Potatoes and onions went into it as well. It was then blended. We got 3 meals each out of it.

Roast beef and horseradish sauce sandwich

This did for lunch recently - cold roast beef from the joint we had for Sunday dinner with some of our horseradish sauce. Very nice.

The last runner beans

We picked the last of our runner beans recently. We had left them a bit late so some of the pods were not in a good shape. We have rescued what beans we can and have sent all the pods for composting. The beans will be mashed up at some point soon and will be one of the ingredients to go into the casing for mini veggie scotch eggs. We have some quail eggs left to use up so watch this space.

Pheasant potato cakes

We swapped some jam recently for a couple of pheasants. Since we had no room left in the freezers, we decided to use them straightaway. The meat was used in a number of different recipes, one of which was pheasant potato cakes. They are simple to make - mashed potatoes, chopped pheasant meat, lightly fried onions and some herbs mixed together and then fried.



They went rather well with some of our plum chutney.

Rain

We have had lots of rain recently (and the weather forecast shows there's lots more to come). Parts of the main allotment have turned to mud. The ducks love it. The hens don't. So it was not surprising to find Pinkie's goathouse full of hens recently. A sensible (and dry) place to hang out.

Invading the fruit cage

I got to the the allotment a few days ago to let out the poultry and feed the animals only to find that Pinkie, our milking goat, had invaded the fruit cage and was munching her way through branches and a few remaining leaves. The netting around the cage had split at one point and Pinkie, being Pinkie, had discovered it and used it as the way in. I left her to it. The shrubs in there needed to be pruned and she was doing a good job for us.

Our first sweet mince pies of the season

Lots of sweet mince pies made last night, using some of the very large quantity of sweet mince I made recently. I too some pies to a couple of meetings I had this morning. They went down well.