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Starting the Olive Harvest

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:40:14 +0000

I don’t know how many olives we will be able to harvest this year. Time is not something we seem to have enough of at the moment and other things are just more important. It’s a shame seeing olives going to waste but such a low price commodity often rots on the floor I guess. We will do some though not the 150+ trees that we

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Schug Chili Paste Recipe

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:10:50 +0000

This year in the Self Sufficient garden, we have had an extremely successful chili crop. So successful in fact, that even my desire for all things Hot ‘n’ Spicy has been complete satiated. But I had never before made a Chili Paste preserve. I had nearly run out of things to do with them all. We have a fair few ripe chillies, both

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Making the Most of the Harvest – Herb Infused Oil

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:04:58 +0000

Today it’s all about making the most of the herb harvest, with basil infused oil so you always have summer to hand on the kitchen shelf. Okay, so we’re not technically self sufficient in basil. But, thankfully we know someone who is. And, better still (for us, not them), they’re spending summer in sunny Blighty. This means we get

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Preserving the Harvest Peppers and Chillis

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:52:52 +0000

Making the most of the vegetable garden, involves stocking up on those things in glut. At the moment it’s chillies and peppers. And, it looks like it may well stay this way for some time. That’s okay though, as I’m a lover of the humble pepper. Mild ones, sweet ones, spicy ones, super hot killer ones, I’m happy

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Brine Cured Dill Cucumber Recipe

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:38:02 +0000

The cucumber plants in the vegetable garden look terrible at the moment. The leaves keep being shredded by the wind. But, regardless, they’re fruiting like crazy. So we’re enjoying cucumber soups, raitas and many salads. But, we’re also ‘putting some by’ to enjoy in the winter months, as gherkins, dill

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Brine Recipe for Brine Cured Pickles

Brine Recipe for Brine Cured Pickles

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:05:35 +0000

With some things growing full tilt in the vegetable garden at the moment, I am on regular pickling duty. It’s not yet time for lots of chutneys, but every week a few batches of dill pickled cucumbers, pickled chillies and peppers are being made up. These types of pickles really are the easiest to create. It’s just a matter of

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Tasty Apricot Jam Recipe

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:48:26 +0000

We just love free stuff here at A Self Sufficient Life. Last week it was a carrier bag full of tiny sweet apricots. The wonderful lady who gifted them to us suggested I make some Apricot Jam, to which I responded I had too much Cherry Jam to do at the moment. But as the apricots sat, wafting their wonderful scent about the kitchen I gave

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Simple Cherry Jam Recipe

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:42:37 +0000

A break from the cheap easy meals for now and a short-term return to preserving. Here’s a recipe for cherry jam I cooked up last night. Cherry Jam Recipe Cherry Jam Ingredients 2kg ripe cherries 1kg sugar juice of one lemon Make sure the cherries are not overly ripe or you may have trouble getting the jam to set properly. I used

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Spare Cabbage? Make Sauerkraut

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:23:48 +0000

I have long had a love affair with Sauerkraut but always thought you needed to live in Eastern Europe and have a tonne of cabbage to make it yourself. I was wrong. It is simple to make sauerkraut at home with very basic implements. Best of all homemade sauerkraut is full of goodness most bought products have lost. And, if the spare

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Canning Fruit – Homemade Tinned Tomatoes

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:49:06 +0000

One of the easiest methods of preserving fruit is ‘canning’ or ‘bottling’ at home. The following technique can be used for any fruit, though you may wish to add some week sugar syrup, rather than brine to other fruits. We home preserve cherries each year in exactly this way. If your tomato harvest didn’t work

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