It has been so cold these last few days. We’ve had water frozen in various different places and snow and rain blowing in to sheds and yards. We feel like we are in the grips of winter, because we are. January is definitely winter in Northumberland. Yesterday the sky was the most beautiful blue and so clear and if you were out of the icy wind there was the tiniest bit of heat in the sun. It was a beautiful, truly beautiful day. One to be savoured at this time of year and we did, coffee time was taken outside sitting in the sun and well out of the north wind.
There isn’t a great lot of things that you can do in the garden at the moment, a few tidying up jobs and a bit of pruning and some harvesting of winter salads and greens but the farm yard is busy. Sheds are getting mucked out and filled with clean bedding. All the livestock like “clean sheet” and the muck we produce here is very important and valuable to us. It is part of the nutrient and composting we do that we use to make our grass and vegetable grow. It is like gold dust or rocket fuel.
It’s nice to have a clean and tidy farm yard too.
Menu ideas for the week
Pulled pork.
Using the pork shoulder joint in this weeks deliveries. This is Lees absolute favourite. Serve it with homemade slaw and baked potatoes or as the Sunday dinner with greens, mash and gravy.
Bolognaise either with spaghetti or garlic bread and more winter slaw.
We like a coleslaw made with red or white cabbage and a crunchy slaw made with grated golden beetroot and carrot and some mixed seeds.
Tomato tarte tatin
don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. Sprinkle with some herbs or cheese if you like but I like mine just tomatoes and a little salt and pepper.
Golden beetroot in cheese sauce and any leftover pulled pork
Carrot and cardamom soup with onion bread
Apple and cinnamon fritters. Serve them with cream for an indulgent pudding
Beth
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