by Auntie Bulgaria | Oct 1, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
Isn’t autumn the best? I mean, today is dark, rainy and freezing – it’s a chilly 8°C right now, when this time last week it was almost 30°C – but who doesn’t love an opportunity to wrap themselves up in an oversized cardigan and legitimately wear Ugg boots?* ...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Aug 10, 2018 | Food & recipes, Gardening bore
Cake. Surely the best use of a vegetable? I’ve not yet found a great way to preserve courgettes. We recently tried fermenting courgette batons in brine (mixed with dill flowers, horseradish leaves and sour cherry leaves of all things – it’s a Ukrainian recipe)....
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 27, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
The first half of July was dominated by the World Cup and a visit from family. If you’re wondering how Guardianista snowflakes like us who live nowhere near a proper English pub watch the footie, it goes like this: Watching the match on the sofa while eating...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 4, 2018 | Gardening bore
Veg garden recovery The courgettes, rhubarb and beetroot are springing back to form after the heavy storms. It always amazes me that really delicate things like dill and asparagus ferns are totally unharmed by bad weather, while the big ole brutes look (temporarily)...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 21, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
The garden is ramping up and feeding us regularly, despite last week’s epic storms. In fact, we’ve eaten (small) beetroot, (even smaller) courgettes and (lots of) tomatoes from the garden every day this week. Our early Latah tomatoes, and spoils from the first...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 14, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
I say ‘the storm’, like there’s been just the one. But we’ve had storms almost every day for weeks and weeks. It’s normal for this time of year in the mountains – we have beautiful hot, sunny days followed by stormy evenings – and we never usually mind. One storm at...
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