by Auntie Bulgaria | Oct 4, 2019 | Bulgarian life, Cat lover, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
You know what’s the surest sign that winter is on the way? It’s not the arrival of this year’s wood order, which finally turned up about a week ago… The annual Rob-in-front-of-the-wood-delivery picture. Nor is it harvesting the tempting butternut squash, which...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Sep 9, 2019 | Gardening bore
Not dry as in sober, you understand. (Number of alcohol-free evenings in the past week = a pitiful 1. Instead of cutting back in the weeks after a holiday, our alcohol consumption tends to notch up a gear for a while.) Dry as in no water. I can’t remember when it last...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Aug 3, 2019 | Food & recipes, Gardening bore
Just a small selection of this week’s bounty. Following last year’s ‘What to do with all those courgettes’ post, I thought I’d do the same with tomatoes – except this time with more of a plea for ideas. Here’s what we normally do with all our toms: Eating...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 16, 2019 | Food & recipes, Gardening bore
Here’s a neat way with courgettes that I made up all by myself, like the clever sausage I am. Now that we’re ramping up to Peak Courgette, it’s useful to have yet another courgette recipe to put into rotation, alongside other favourites like cake, briam (Greek...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 3, 2019 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
The stormy season seems to be getting longer every year. When we first came to Bulgaria, there’d usually be a stormy few weeks in May – lovely warm days, then these great crashing storms in the evenings. Then, within a couple of years, the storms started creeping into...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 10, 2019 | Gardening bore
We do like a good garden project, we do. Not those perpetual projects that never seem to get finished (or even really get off the ground). You know those types of projects – for us it’s things like replacing the nasty chain link fence at the front of the house...
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