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		<title>Note to self&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bottled another 8 x 500ml of nettle beer today. Ready to drink next Saturday. Must pick more nettles tomorrow (I have to make a note here or else I lose track of what I did on which date!).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=heartsdale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1932932&amp;post=121&amp;subd=heartsdale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My little soldiers&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the nettle beer (most of it, the kitchen floor got a bit of a sprinkling, as did I!) is bottled &#8211; 8 x 500ml bottles. The instructions say to leave it for a week in a cool place, then drink, chilled. It definitely takes two people to siphon this stuff into bottles &#8211; it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=heartsdale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1932932&amp;post=114&amp;subd=heartsdale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beer update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, today is Day 3 for the nettle beer. It started off bubbling extremely vigorously, but has now slowed right down and almost stopped. The original recipe said to bottle it on Day 3 (ie, today) but I&#8217;m going to give it until tomorrow because it&#8217;s been in a cool place. I couldn&#8217;t help but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=heartsdale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1932932&amp;post=110&amp;subd=heartsdale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the kitchen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog is where I post my thoughts and experiences with food and drink &#8211; but of course there&#8217;s more to life than that &#8211; so if you&#8217;re at all interested in the other aspects of what we get up to in rural Ireland &#8211; my other blog is Darkginger&#8217;s Lair &#8211; where I witter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=heartsdale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1932932&amp;post=107&amp;subd=heartsdale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When life gives you nettles&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;make nettle beer! I awoke to find the sun shining on Ireland this morning &#8211; it&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve seen it. The dogs and I spent the morning in the field, picking nettles &#8211; rubber gloves of course! It takes a surprisingly long time to pick a kilo of nettles, but I got [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=heartsdale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1932932&amp;post=103&amp;subd=heartsdale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Book!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was travelling through Gatwick Airport recently, I noticed Heston Blumenthal&#8217;s The Fat Duck Cookbook on sale for £40 in Smith&#8217;s. It&#8217;s a very large and heavy hardcover book, so I managed to resist buying it &#8211; and I&#8217;m glad I did, because I ordered it from Amazon last week for £24.79 (and free [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=heartsdale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1932932&amp;post=100&amp;subd=heartsdale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lamb Kleftiko</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Klefitko&#8217;, apparently, means &#8216;in the style of the thieves&#8217; &#8211; the origin of this dish is that it was cooked by bandits in the hills of Greece, using ingredients they had to hand. In order to escape discovery, they cooked in tightly sealed vessels so there was no telltale smell. I have no idea how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=heartsdale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1932932&amp;post=91&amp;subd=heartsdale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Mead, and Mussels</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started a second batch of mead today &#8211; the method&#8217;s the same as before, but this time I used a lemon instead of the orange, and about four inches of peeled and chopped ginger root instead of the cinnamon. Both meads are bubbling away nicely. Estimated time until bottling &#8211; 3 months, so I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=heartsdale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1932932&amp;post=84&amp;subd=heartsdale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mead for beginners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few years since I tried to make mead, but it&#8217;s really one of the easiest things to brew. I&#8217;ve just started off a new one gallon batch, and this is how I did it (it&#8217;s an adaptation of a recipe I found at Got Mead): Ingredients 3lbs Boyne Valley Honey 1 orange, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=heartsdale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1932932&amp;post=74&amp;subd=heartsdale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My books are here!</title>
		<link>http://heartsdale.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/my-books-are-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Flavour Thesaurus and Formulas for Flavour arrived today &#8211; and on glancing through them, I&#8217;m delighted. The Flavour Thesaurus is so much more than a list of complementary flavours &#8211; it offers recipe suggestions, anecdotes and opinions on hundreds of different foods and flavours. Formulas for Flavour not only has a large section which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=heartsdale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1932932&amp;post=71&amp;subd=heartsdale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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