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Posted in Food & Cooking, Poultry on Dec 13th, 2009
In this cold weather we’re still getting quite a few eggs everyday. The pure breed Cochins have put their knickers on for the winter and are not bothering but the Light Sussex seem more than happy to lay one each a day.
I took the plunge today and hard boiled a load of eggs for [...]
Posted in Food & Cooking, Growing on Aug 31st, 2009
For quite a few weeks now we have been picking and eating runner beans from the allotment. Very nice! There are still signs of a lot more to come and we may end up freezing a load if we end up with too many to eat.
I know that we need to plant a lot more [...]
Posted in Food & Cooking, Poultry on Feb 10th, 2009
I have ordered a few boxes of gourmet Sasso hatching eggs for our own chicken meat production. With the aim of eventually keeping ourselves in chicken meat all year round 1st time – it’s going to be an experiment!
Incubation (3 weeks) to end of growing on (12 weeks), making a total of 15 weeks from [...]
Posted in Food & Cooking on Feb 10th, 2009
I did a little experiment today with the microwave :-0
Ingrediants:
100g SR Flour
100g Caster Sugar
100g Margarine
2 Eggs
All you need to do is stick it in a mixing bowl, combine the ingredients until it looks like cake mix. Then pour it in a suitable pudding basin and nuke it in the microwave for 4 1/2 minutes.
On the [...]