More home food
It’s not just black pudding around here – with the weather as hot as it is, slaving over a hot stove isn’t top of my list of things to do, however necessary it is. Anne, however, had a much better idea. She’s making elderflower champagne – a sweet infusion of elderflowers that you brew for a while. It ends up very refreshing and slightly fizzy. An excellent summer drink that we’ve missed a lot over the past few years (when we’ve not got round to making any!).
We’ve also dug up the first of this year’s new potatoes. The fennel and chard are going great guns. The broad beans aren’t as good as we’d hoped and the pea plants are still pathetically small. The runner beans have started coming up, though (we were stupidly late planting them :( ), though, and the squashes (courgettes, butternut squashes and cucumbers) seem to be doing well. Our first tomatoes should only be a couple of weeks away, and the sweet peppers are in their growbag.
Summer is a coming in!
pax et bonum
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