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Our girls get a Valentines Day gift
“Murphy’s the name. Siring’s the game.” Well, that’s what he might have said if Murphy the 10-year-old Berkshire Boar who lives about half an hour from Moons Green had bothered to introduce himself to us. Murphy belongs to Jane Howard, … Continue reading
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Lunch in France
“Fancy lunch in France sometime?” asked Bill, definitely not a founding member of Francophiles-Are-Us. “Why not,” I responded, dreaming immediately of Alain Chapel’s truffle-stuffed chicken tightly enveloped in a pig’s bladder and poached in a rich chicken broth. We decided … Continue reading
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Pear tatin
We had a great crop of Conference Pears this year at the Moons Green Smallholding. They don’t usually last as well as apples but miraculously a few survived and Ingrid produced this the other day. Serves 4 750 g firm … Continue reading
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Celeriac soup
We made this soup the other day from the stored vegetables, grown last season on our smallholding in Moons Green in Kent. The South East of England has the perfect climate for market gardening and it is just great to … Continue reading
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Pollock with five spice
Serves 4 700 g pollack fillet 2 tbsp five- spice powder 1 tbsp flour 4 tbsp groundnut oil juice of 1 lime 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce 1/2 red chilli 1 clove garlic 1/2 tsp sugar 1 tbsp water 2 … Continue reading
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Ingrid orders the scallops…
Horticulture is really Farmer Phil and His wife Trish’s arena although in recent years both Bill and his wife Ingrid have been making some serious inroads with the introduction of the serious, fenced-off vegetable garden out in the pig field … Continue reading
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Things are heating up on the farm
Here at the smallholding at Moons Green, it’s already earned a number of nicknames; “the pink knocker’, “The Moons Green Mosque”, “Bill’s folly”. But make no mistake, Bill’s bread oven is not just a very visible landmark on the farm, … Continue reading
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Chocolate and prune ice cream
OK, we didn’t grow any of this on our Smallholding at Moons Green! But it is a great recipe and one that my friend Gillian is very keen to try out. Serves 12 250 g prunes without stones 100 ml … Continue reading
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Rainbow Crisps
Rainbow crisps We had surplus crops in our market garden at our Moons Green Smallholding in Kent this year. We researched and dug up this recipe. We did intend the crisps for John’s kids but somehow the bowl just disappeared, … Continue reading
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The Pig Diaries, cont
The old ways work best Charlie’s a young and spirited 71. Ron’s 65 and a former gamekeeper in these parts. Add it up and they’ve been practitioners of the art of using ferrets to hunt rabbits for more than 125 … Continue reading
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