Rustical

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  • Painting Baby Pumpkins

    I don’t suppose many people will actually need a tutorial in how to paint a pumpkin for Halloween but it might be of interest to see the finish achieved using Annie Sloan Chalk paint. The little pumpkins are available from our pumpkin farm shop www.BigPumpkins.co.uk I selected the Annie Sloan ‘Graphite’ chalk paint as I wanted…

  • Busy day in the sun

    A very busy day making the most of the sunshine to get caught up with all the field and footpath mowing but the highlight was cutting our first pumpkins of the season. It usually gets to September before the PR people remember to think about Halloween but quite a few have been making enquiries already. The…

  • Rustic Chopping & Serving Boards

    Rustic Chopping & Serving Boards

    The past few days have taken place in a large cloud of sawdust as we try and catch up on a few bespoke orders for BIG chunky chopping boards. Thick milled planks are cut to best make use of their individual natural grain patterns. All boards are marked out by hand and consequently no two boards…

  • EU Referendum

    Our Chucks have considered all the information in the £9m leaflet and cast their votes early.

  • Sourdough Course

    Having already completed the Artisan Foodworks ‘Basic Breadmaking’ course at some time ago, the ‘Mastering Sourdough’ course was a natural follow on. David and Julie were again the perfect hosts and the gang of eager students were a good bunch. My haul of my own handcrafted sourdough bread made on the day was impressive: For…

  • Our first homemade wood fired pizza

    Yesterday we finally got around to making our very first homemade pizza in the wood fire oven. Liam made 1kg of pizza dough and a delicious (secret recipe) tomato sauce and so our first pizza trials began. The oven was lit with some dry brash and a few sticks to warm it up before it was…

  • Cooking sausages in a wood fired oven

    Having lit some 10 fires of ever increasing size in our new wood oven in order to ‘cure’ the construction (slowly drive out all the moisture) it was nice to declare the oven open and pop in a few appropriately named ‘firecracker’ sausages from Taylors at Lathom. At last… Dinner is served!

  • Dog with ‘Scouse Brows’

    Ever seen a dog with Scouse Brows? Sue’s friend Pam sent us this pic taken on their hols in Koh Samet, Thailand which made us laugh. Coleen must be so proud.

  • The 2015 Song For Pumpkins

    The pumpkin parody song for 2015 is ‘Milkshake’ by Kelis. With thanks to Sally & Aymon and Fish2 Photography Keep an eye on Sally’s instagram account for the results of the Saturday morning pumpkin patch photoshoot.

  • Layla and Jamie visit

    Sue’s work colleague Paul and his wife Claire called with their two kids to pick their pumpkins from the field, feed the hens, collect the eggs and pose for pictures on the big pumpkin. I think it is fair to say that collecting the eggs proved to be the favourite part of the visit for…