Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
It’s hard to believe there are still figs on the tree here…..about half a dozen beauties still filling out to their optimum size. They are heavy, sweet and delicious. A really scrumptious late season treat. My eldest daughter and I are sharing them out...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking
Saturday’s Cooking Day with Stefano Manfredi was simply delightful, for everyone involved. From the peaceful start – me with armfuls of flowers from the garden to arrange; Stefano loading up the Dairy benches with tantalising ingredients, getting things...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
This season, the great raspberry haul has simply gone on…and on….and on….not a glut as such (I’m certainly not making jam), but they are simply the best we’ve ever had! For a couple of weeks I was filling a small ramekin dish each...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
This unexpected friend sprouted just outside the kitchen a couple of months ago and I took to weeding around him, on the off-chance that he might become handsome! I didn’t plant him and wonder if he arrived in the loads of horse poo I shovelled into the bed in...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Delightful Discoveries
Sometimes ideas creep up on you: very, very slowly. I can’t recall just what exactly posessed me, years ago, to order seed of ‘leaf amaranth’. I must have read about it somewhere, thought its spectacular feathery plumes worth a trial and the rest,...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Glenmore House
The sound of pipes carrying across the paddocks in the late afternoon light was a fitting end to a glorious Sunday. I was concerned by 2’ish, that I hadn’t heard the man who plays at his mother’s grave each Mother’s Day and was relieved...
