Since there is a market upcoming (although by the sound of the pouring rain as I type, it may be a no-goer) I thought it best to drag some of the umpteen squillion bags of raspberries out of the freezer and make some more jam. Everyone seems to love it. (Except my weird husband who avoids it because he is a sook about seeds in his teeth! 🙂 ) (more for me!!)
Sticky goodness
It was important to test it –
Fresh bread and jam
Tick.
Moving right along to make up that sweet chilli sauce
Sweet Chilli Sauce
Recipe for those who are interested:
You’ll need a long lead time if you want to grow your own chillies and garlic, otherwise its pretty straightforward.
Ingredients:
300 grams chillies (deseeded)
100 grams garlic
70 grams fresh ginger
1.2 litres of cider vinegar
2 kg sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Method:
Put your chillies, garlic and ginger in the Gee Whizzer with a bit of the cider vinegar to puree
Add to large pot with remaining ingredients and boil (keep an eye on it – horrible to clean up if it boils over)
Recipe calls for 25 minutes of simmering but I need a LOT longer (ie an hour or two) to reduce to the desired thickness
Do yourself a favour and DO NOT INHALE while cooking or even washing the pot. Seriously. Your eyes will water for a week.
Pour into sterilised bottles and enjoy.
Drizzle on cream cheese and biscuits (crackers) or very nice with spring rolls
Since I had made meatloaf yesterday I didn’t have much to do to get dinner ready, except trot down the yard to my personal supermarket to pull up some carrots –
Impressed with my carrots that I have mostly ignored all season!
Pick the first of the pumpkins It was so small but the plant has died back so why not try it? Glad we did – tasty!!
Cute teeny pumpkinLooks ok
And a visit to the herb garden for some basil, parsley and oregano. Honestly – have you seen how expensive ‘fresh’ herbs are to buy in the supermarket? Even if you don’t have a garden, grab a few pots and grow your favourite herbs. You won’t look back!
Herb Garden
I also had a taste for some stuffed tomatoes, so while the vegies were baking I prepared a few. Its another great way to make use of your excess tomatoes.
First whizz up some breadcrumbs and add some fresh herbs (or dry) and a bit of garlic salt
Breadcrumbs & fresh herbs
Get your tomatoes, cut in half and scoop out the centre.
Scoop middles
Smush up or whizz up the centres and add them to the breadcrumb mixture then spoon the lot back into the tomato shells.
Top with a bit of basil and a smidge of butter. They will take about 5 minutes under the grill so you can do them last thing before serving up dinner.
Ready for the grill
I have no photo of dinner because I was hungry and ate it – plus it wasn’t that photogenic anyway – but it was fresh and tasted not too bad at all!
(Fair warning – long post – go get yourself a hot chocolate first)
Since our move to Tasmania nearly 4&1/2 years ago we have had pretty much a constant stream of visitors. Of course lots of family and friends have made the trip down, but also what I call our “Randoms”
Just by luck & word of mouth we have had a lot of travellers coming to stay and enjoy our little area of the world.
Today I will introduce you to Nozomi, a lovely young lady from Japan who was in the first group of ‘randoms’ that we ever had staying here.
It was one of those serendipity things. A girlfriend of mine was at the coast in NSW and spotted Nozomi and her friend Yusuke (more on Yusuke another time 🙂 ) working at an orange juice stall. She recognised them as Japanese and since she spoke the language, went up and made friends and chatted a while. She found out that they were working around Australia and were bound for Tasmania soon so she said “My friends have just moved to Tasmania, they love Japan, you should go and stay!”
They got in touch and also asked if another friend (Omi – more on him another day) could join them (Jeff was starting to weird-out at this point wondering how many I was going to try to fit in!!) and I am like, hey why not?
Sightseeing – with our first ‘Randoms’ Omi, Yusuke & NozomiPutting our guests to work!
We all had the best time. I was supposed to get them to help in the garden and whatnot in exchange for their board, but we were new to Tasmania too and we just had a lot of fun making new friends and travelling about, definitely some gardening but oh so so so much great food!
Japanese Feast
Nozomi is a fabulous cook – we were missing Japanese food and boy did we get spoiled!
So nice when its not me in there!!
The kitchen seemed to always be a hive of activity.
Visiting Sisters Beach
From these three initial guests we have been introduced to no fewer than 10 other Japanese travellers who have stayed with us! Some come and work in the garden and kitchen in exchange for food and board, others have paid us a bit of money to simply do a bit of sightseeing.
Nozomi returned with another friend about a year after her initial trip, a lovely man, Aveen, who we have become really good friends with. He is whacky and funny with a heart of gold! (I am sure more on him later too! 🙂 )
Drama time at Rocky Cape National ParkAveen hamming it up for the camera
Nozomi worked hard while in Australia and saved enough money to fly both her Mum and her Aunt to Australia and treated them to a 13 day holiday to show them where she had been living and working the past couple of years! What an amazing girl!
Of course part of that trip was a 5 day Tasmanian Adventure.
Family at Boat Harbour BeachViews over Rock Cape
We fit so much in in our five days! Beaches, hiking, national parks and wildlife! Plenty of wildlife!
Pretty friendly for a wild wallaby!
Joey’s poking their heads out of pouches are always so sweetKoala at local wildlife refuge poses for photos
Hungry little Tasmanian Devils
And just to prove that not all Australian wildlife is out to kill you… here is a baby devil – totally sweet huh? –
The ‘awww’ factor is strong in this one
And did we eat well while the family was here?? You Betcha!
The ladies cooking up a storm!A work of art in foodAnnoyingly I don’t let people eat until I have taken photos
I think Jeff may have shed a tear when they left!! He especially LOVES Japanese food! 🙂
We really enjoyed their visit – it was pretty much their first time out of Japan and they were so much fun to show around! Like little kids with their eyes open wide! It was great to be a part of that.
Skip forward a bit and Jeff and I got to go back to Japan and travel around a bit. Of course catching up with our friends was an important part of the journey.
Beautiful raked gardens
We went down to Fukuoka to meet Nozomi, who had gotten herself married to a gorgeous fellow, Tetsu!
Happy Couple
They were living with Tetsu’s parents in this beautiful 200 year (plus) home and we were invited to stay. It was the first time ever that foreigners had stayed here! We were welcomed and made part of the family – beautiful lasting memories!!
We slept in this beautiful tatami room
Family home dating back a couple of hundred years!
Every morning Tetsu’s parents take an early walk around the local rice fields and shrines. We joined in one morning and it was fantastic.
Persimmon seasonWild CosmosShrines are common along fields and pathwaysWalking around the rice fields
Our welcoming family
And of course we ate really well! Our favourite place was the ramen noodle stalls in Fukuoka!
Ramen bar
First you choose a stall and squeeze right on in –
Love the atmosphere in these bars
Then you start ordering. The portions are small so you can order a nice variety of whatever takes your fancy! The food and atmosphere are equally wonderful –
Simply delicious!
All of these wonderful experiences and new friends just wouldn’t have happened without a chance meeting at an orange juice stall and us opening our home and saying “Sure – come on down”
The directions life goes can be interesting and when you embrace it whole heartedly it often shines back on you tenfold.
We were so happy to meet Nozomi and we look forward to seeing them all again someday – they now have a baby girl who we can’t wait to give a cuddle to!
Clearly I didn’t think I had quite enough fruit and vegetables to sort out, so I picked up 3kgs of distressed banana’s to add to my list of “things to chop”
Well, I couldn’t help it. I recently made a couple of banana/raspberry bread loaves and they were stonkingly good. Pretty sure we needed more. (Will add this recipe at a later date)
Banana bread with raspberries
Since the raspberry harvest this season was fabulous – I have a freezer stuffed with packs of frozen raspberries. Brilliant to be able to just make any raspberry item that takes my fancy at any time.
Unfortunately what took my fancy included bananas that I didn’t have!
So I peeled and mashed my box of banana’s (note – peels chopped and will be fed to the rose bushes as I read somewhere about that being good for them) and bagged them up to join the raspberries in the freezer to cook at a later date (After all – my food processing day had hardly begun!)
Now in the freezer
It wasn’t raining, so I set the stall out the front again. Funny thing, when I checked it an hour or so later there was a random dollar in the jar but nothing had been taken!
I have two theories:
Someone thinks I am busking.
Someone short changed me yesterday and has conscientiously made the effort to pull up and give me my dollar.
I am good with both these theories.
Todays total take was $11.90 😀
I am a bit puzzled about the 90 cents, but I have decided it goes with the sign that says “take what parsley you need and donate something” 🙂
I finished my current lot of tomato sauce, filled the dehydrator with apples again, pre made dinner for two nights – and then decided to get on with the chillies!
Variety is the spice… ??
I really don’t know how I ended up with so many varieties. I don’t think I pay attention to a lot of the things I put in the ground – but its a lovely surprise when random things grow. Like those round fat chillies! They were meant to be normal capsicum!
This time I ‘suited up’ to tackle the chopping and deseeding part. I suspect a lot of my friends got sick of my whinging and whining about stinging hands for three days after the last effort – seriously – chillies are diabolical!!
The thing about having a nurse in the house is easy access to gloves!
How awesome is the colour tho??
Best colour in the garden!
Happily there will be enough chillies there to make up another batch of sweet chilli sauce – there is a market on Sunday which I am aiming to get to if the weather is agreeable.
I don’t think my dinners are really that interesting all the time to bore you with – but I can’t tell you how good it was to sit down this evening to a couple of home made hamburgers. (I had forgotten about lunch so was a bit peckish by dinner time!) As I mentioned somewhere in an earlier post, we get out beef locally, and its great having the (mostly) home-made/grown bits and pieces to make the patties and build up the burger!
It was as windy as all getup here today. Keep looking at the gums looming over the house hoping their roots are holding on tight.
Regardless – it had to be an outdoor day. Too much kitchen time not enough garden time. There is a lot of work to be done – I am sure I will get around to it! 🙂
The corn stalks weren’t really properly dry, but they are messy and providing slug/bug homes so I had to do something with them.
So I reduced them from this –
One of my messes
to this –
Corn stalks reduced for the compost
Lovely scraps to be put in the compost! Very pleased we bought the little mulcher – such a useful tool for this place!
Still plenty of food other than tomatoes. I took time to enjoy hanging out with my ever growing zucchini!! I am curious to see just how big it will get. Was quite awkward trying to get the selfie – lucky I am not too precious about scrounging down in the dirt!!
Vegetable Friends
While I was lying back in the vegie patch, this is the view that myself and (Insert name for zucchini here when I think of one 🙂 ) were enjoying in the sunny afternoon –
Views from the earth
So besides madly oversized zucchini’s, I have pumpkins –
This pumpkin is currently climbing up the fence!The biggest pumpkin in the garden so far
Heirloom capsicum (these were an accident as I planted ‘normal’ capsicum and got these instead – and I am totally converted! They taste SO good!!) They also change colour from green to yellow to orange and then red! But edible from yellow –
Sweet tasty delights
One struggling eggplant –
Hiding eggplant
My beautiful runner beans! They haven’t made it up and over their arch yet, but I live in hope –
Scarlett Runner Beans
Living on the beans at the moment is quite a colony of very cool little bugs. I don’t think they are doing any harm, but they are really pretty.
There were also little family groups!
I suppose they are all very cute until they start munching their way through your garden!
To finish the day I did eventually have to get back into the kitchen. Due to tomato problem, I made tomato soup for dinner. Have no clue where my recipe is for it so I just had to make it up, throw in what I thought should be in there and hope for the best. Happily it turned out pretty fab (if I do say so myself) and even better I used up a stack more tomatoes. Happy Days!
Homemade tomato soup
And to round off the day with apples, I made an “Apple Slump” A wonderful old fashioned recipe from my Great Aunt Ruby (who is 99 years old!). Its not fussy or pretty but it tastes great and is a good recipe to have on hand when apples are in season. (I will post a ‘how to’ recipe for this at a later date)
Aaaaand – I totally forgot to feed it to Jeff before he went to work! Bad Wife!
He said he is looking forward to it for breakfast!
Apple slump
That rounds off another day from Norwich House!
Cheers!
PS The stall is on the up & up – I got $9 today!! 😛
I am trying out this whole “Circle of Life” thing and applying it to the household budget, garden produce and grocery shopping thing. I figure I need to make the property pay its way as much as possible, then put those dollars back into things I can’t make or grow myself.
Today was one of those ‘mostly kitchen’ days where I am trying to convert raw food into saleable food, and most of that entails an awful lot of chopping!
First things first, since the day was sunny and breezy I had to do at least some housework related jobs, so two loads of laundry got put out on the line, but I successfully avoided the folding of all the previously washed stuff (that’s why we have a spare room right??)(Altho that pile is getting a bit of a worry as Jeff was complaining about lack of clean undies)(and no – there wasn’t a lack – they were just hiding under some t-shirts)(because you all needed to know that)
Anyway – so, ever hopeful I go and set up my “For Sale” tables out the front in the hope that people may stop and take some tomatoes off my hands and give me some money in exchange.
Roadside Stall
That done, it was time to get the tomato relish bubbling away and chop into more tomatoes. I had been up silly late last night chopping tomatoes and onions so they could ‘sit’ overnight ready for me to do something with today.
Tomato relish cooking
Even with that 6 pounds in the pot and a box of them out the front I was still left with this to sort –
Tomatoes just keep on coming
So chop chop chop, another 6 pounds done and put in the pot with the right ingredients to get some tomato sauce under way.
(See bottom of post for Tomato Relish Recipe)
We eat our dried apples fairly smartly… so its back to apples!
Red DeliciousAfternoon under the apple tree
There is a local market held on the foreshore twice a month. I try to get there to sell off my excess produce, sauces, relishes and jams. People seem to like the fact I have grown and made it all myself – organically – so I do reasonably well.
Local Market
I get to meet lots of people, its lovely and social and the view of the ocean can be pretty good too!
Wynyard Beach – on one of its grouchy days!
I put aside the money from these ventures and it goes back into buying our meat (which we source in bulk locally) and other things like milk, butter, flour, chocolate etc. My aim is to have more money coming in from produce than leaves in supermarket costs. So far this year I failed in January, but succeeded in February! Yay !!
On tomorrows list? Chillies, tomato sauce, corn – stalk mulching (if its not raining) and apples… will be dreaming of apples…
Still plenty of apples left
PS In case you were wondering, my roadside stall brought in the princely sum of $3.50 today!! Hilarious! Best not give up my day job huh?? Hang on – this IS my day job!! 🙂
RECIPE – TOMATO RELISH
Credit to my Nanna!
INGREDIENTS:
6lb ripe tomatoes chopped
2lb onions diced
2lb sugar
3 tablespoons mustard powder
2 tablespoons curry powder
vinegar (I use white to keep gluten free, but malt and cider also work fine)
salt
Cornflour
METHOD:
Mix chopped tomato and onion in a large pot, sprinkle with a handful of salt and leave overnight. Next day pour off excess liquid, then pour vinegar into the mix until covered. Add sugar, mix in and bring to boil. Reduce heat and let simmer uncovered for 2-3 hours. Prepare about 10-12 jars – clean and sterilise in oven (I do mine at 100 deg celcius) and wash lids. Mix mustard and curry powder with a couple of heaps dessert spoons of cornflour into a separate bowl. Add water and make into smooth paste. Pour into tomato mixture and reheat to thicken. I usually let that cook for 5 – 10 minutes more.
Pour relish into hot jars and seal.
Fabulous on most meats – hot or cold. Gorgeous on ham and cheese sandwiches and it makes a delightful pizza base sauce! Enjoy!
I had never been to Steamfest before, so I rang my friend Margie and asked if she wanted to go for a drive into the country with me to check it all out. (Husband on nightshift so he is no fun during the day)
I got a yes from Margie, so up we went. Of course, being all grown up, the first thing we did as soon as we got through the gates was get ourselves onto the teeny steam train for a ride!!
We parked ourselves in the First Class Carriage for the trip up –
Margie looking forward to the train rideTravelling First Class
And then braved the elements and soot in the open carriage on the way back –
Margie still smiling!Choo Choo
Lack of husbands on this trip meant a guilt-free dawdle through the craft halls – I immediately found some beautiful hand spun and dyed merino wool which I purchased… later to be made into someone’s birthday or Christmas present I reckon!
Garment in Waiting…
After some exhausting browsing and chit chatting (its quite amazing how many people you bump into that you know when you drive an hour from home!) we (Margie) spotted a small sit down tent area where the lady was serving scones with a cuppa of your choice. In need of fortification, we immediately sat and ordered some wood-fired scones!! I am sorry to say there are no photos of those little clouds of delicious-ness because we scoffed them before I thought of getting my camera back out. But I did get a photo of the very cool oven they were cooked in:
Wood fired oven
A bit further up the track we found a sight worth seeing – a squadron of primary school kids having a tug-of-war with a steam roller! Not something you see everyday and there was great excitement each time the kids managed to pull the engine in their direction! (I do suspect some mechanical help may have played a part)
Ahhhh! Good, clean, wholesome, country fun!
There were really interesting, working machines everywhere.
Truckload of wheat ready for processing
It was great hearing them fire up the engines and seeing the process of the wheat being separated out and the remaining hay baled.
All I see are the eyes!!Bags of wheat one end, hay at the other!
It was a different way to spend Sunday and a lot of fun. A small escape from the kitchen with its waiting kilos of tomatoes!
The afternoon brought the sunshine back and once home it was nice to sit on the back veranda with a cup of hot chocolate, enjoying the view and listening to the delicate sounds of cows bellowing in the nearby paddocks!
Before our move to Tasmania, we had had no experience with chickens and I was surprised at just how much I really really liked them!
They are hilarious creatures – free entertainment really – and they totally pull their weight when it comes to earning their keep!
When we first moved here, my parents came to visit to check out our new surrounds and my Dad took it upon himself to clean out the coop and run – and got us our first 6 chickens as a housewarming present! (Thanx Dad!) It was so exciting.
Four years later we have had chickens come and go, but one of our original girls, Screecher, is still with us.
“Screecher”
She is quite tame and doesn’t mind a cuddle but when you pick her up – she screeches!!
We don’t have too many problems with our girls. They are Houdinis when it comes to getting out of where they should be and into where they shouldn’t be!! Trust me when I say you don’t need them in your vegie garden!! Apart from hoovering everything in sight, they are like mini back hoes the way they dig! One of them (I have my suspicions this one) –
The Chickenator – Destroyer of Strawberries
got out of the chicken run, under (or over) the fence that separates the two halves of the yard, up to the strawberry patch and found the one hole in the netting and had a perfectly lovely couple of hours rotary hoeing my strawberries!! And then put herself back as if nothing happened!! Complete Strawberry Devastation! The strawberry harvest was sad this season and the above bird is VERY lucky she didn’t end up on a sandwich!!
We once had a possum visitor that made itself comfy in one of the nests. It had no inclination to leave and it was quite the event evicting it!! The girls weren’t keen on their new coop-mate and found a new nesting place to lay eggs for about a week before I found them and retrained them back to their proper nests!
Possum B&B
Between the chickens and the compost we have very little kitchen waste. They are like little garbage disposal units with attitude!!
They get plenty of fresh garden greens and I can pick up free out of date bread from the local supermarket if I ask at the right time. I also like to cook them seed/grain cakes and make them warm mash in the winter. As a result, the eggs taste divine!
Loving their fresh greens
Fun with chickens!
We have plenty of eggs for ourselves and we sell the excess to family and local friends. They are always in demand and I love having eggs ‘on tap’ to use whenever it takes my fancy.
Easy dinner when I feel lazy
The coins we get paid for the eggs get put aside which pay for their feed, with the rest saved for some specific thing we want to do or buy. We put in two screen doors and screens on the windows from the egg money. The egg money also bought a book of movie tickets!! Awesome chickens!
Squirt – half Australorp half Silky
Chickens can be kept in smaller areas in normal backyards (if your council allow it) quite successfully. I highly recommend having them – they are not difficult to take care of and there are very few issues we have come across. I think the worst is when they die as you get so attached!! (Yes – we cry) Clean water, safe area to scratch around, nice mix of pellets and scraps, a place to lay and roost and that’s all you need – er – plus your chickens of course!!
Go for it!
Cheers
Those beady eyes can spot a grasshopper at 20 paces!!
We are lucky to be surrounded by beautiful natural areas in the north west of Tasmania. Each week I will try to feature a place we enjoy visiting.
Dip Forest Reserve is only about 40 minutes west of us and inland a teeny bit. Its actually a lovely drive through the farming country to reach it.
Walking through the man ferns to the Big Tree
It’s beautiful walking through the tall man ferns – all lush green. They grow at about 1cm per year, so some of these have been around for an awfully long time! And after a gruelling three minute walk along a flat path you reach “The Big Tree” (Someone with a creative turn of mind obviously came up with the name)
The Big Tree
This 400 year old giant is a Browntop Stringybark, or Eucalypt Oblique. At a height of 62 metres (203ft) and an impressive 17mt girth, it really makes you feel a little bit small and insignificant!!
Photo opportunity for the parentsGnarly base
Somehow over the years, it has survived the fires and logging and is a wonderful place to take visitors. It’s good for the soul to stroll along and look up at the younger trees and man ferns that loom above you.
Under the canopyNot many of the old growth trees leftMan ferns acting like umbrellas
A walk down the long staircase to the bottom of Dip Falls is the next place to go. Its a pretty steep descent and a real bugger to walk back up again, but it is totally worth the little extra effort!
End of the stairwayDip River
The falls themselves can change remarkably over the different seasons. Sometimes there is no more than a trickle, and at other times a deluge!
SummerSpring/autumnWinter
About ten minutes after the above photo was taken I managed to do a really ungraceful pirouette off a slippery rock and spun myself down to fall into the (at the time) raging Dip River.
It. Was. Cold.
I took my camera for a swim as well which happily survived its dunking. I bravely proceeded with the rest of the touring with friends in wet squelching undies. Not recommended.
Autumn brings out a variety of simply gorgeous fungi of all shapes and colours. One day I am going to go and visit Dip Falls at the right time when I am not with tourists and spend some special time with my macro lens, a tripod and go nuts!
The curling ferns and varieties of mosses are fascinating to see if you have the time to stop long enough and really take notice of your surrounds.
Hopefully you have enjoyed the first “Friday’s Footprints”
The day was pretty gloomy with sideways misty, soaking rain. Pip the Siamese Cat took one look and went back to bed. (Really very tempting to follow him but a fair bit of guilt about the waiting tomatoes kept me awake instead)
So I grabbed my brekkie and opened my emails to find a note from my best friend wishing us a happy anniversary!! Eep!! Really? That’s the date?? Damn!! I looked about the house and spied no bunches of flowers or boxes of chocolates so rightly assumed Jeff had forgotten too! Whew.
So I dutifully reminded him and we smooched and looked through some wedding photos and marvelled at how fast nine years goes by!! I couldn’t resist putting some photos up on facebook of me looking a lot cleaner and prettier than my normal self, holding roses instead of a bunch of vegetables!
Blushing Bride (Photo Credit – John Russell)
This is the more usual me:
Dutch Cream Potatoes
Oh it does my heart good to see all those potatoes and that lovely red dirt!!
Anyway, so I carefully dressed in some daggy trackie pants, wind-cheater and bright blue knitted slipper-socks (I am nothing if not sexy) and did the dishes and started chopping up the tomatoes.
Classic Nanna Scales
After 6lb’s worth, I needed some outdoor time so I went and raided the hothouse, because it was still wet and miserable and I didn’t want to be that far outdoors!
I wonder if the rock melon is ripe?
By this stage I was kinda over tomatoes, so I donned my apron (seriously – does anyone except me these days wear a house apron??) and stuffed it with apples so I could fill the dehydrator again as dried apple snacks are almost better than chocolate. (Almost…)
I think my apron is a bit cool…No apple shortageThe dehydrator working overtime
Ok – now we can get onto the anniversary stuff and have a great dinner – Glad I thawed the nice steaks out! Baked some potatoes (of course) and made a basic salad while Jeff did the manly BBQ thing and cooked the steaks! All washed down with glasses of cordial as were not sophisticated enough to crack a bottle of wine! Maybe we should plan better for the ten year anniversary!
Aaaaand very romantically I am still awake, Jeff has gone to bed and Pip is having a bath.
Time for me to sneak a tipple of my home made plum liqueur!!
The best time of the year is when you rarely need to stock up from the supermarket and instead just step out into the backyard and pick or dig what goes on your plate. Its not too hard to build up a basic garden for summer salads, even if you don’t want to go all out with a massive enterprise! It really lightens the load on the budget
Tonight was one of our scrappy dinners, as is usual when the hard working husband comes off a night shift. I just grabbed some fresh salad items – lettuce, tomato, cucumber, heirloom capsicum with a bit of basil to make it more exciting…
Most of this was growing 10 minutes ago! (er – not the cheese)
We had a good corn harvest from the garden this year. We have been scoffing down corn like it was going out of fashion! Nothing better than biting into a fresh juicy cob of corn!!
Corn stalksFreshly picked
I have frozen several cobs and also cut the kernels off the not so perfect cobs to save space in the already bulging freezers!
This made it easy to add a chicken sweet corn soup to the dinner menu, toast up a bit of home made bread and we’re done.
