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Might be: then it's blood as I thought.

When I eat poultry I aways love the little bits: heart, liver, kidneys, the bits of meat between the smaller bones, and most of all the dark, half-fluid stuff just inside the top of the back. My husband says it's called oedema, which sounds strange to me. It looks more like congealed blood. Does any...

I can't get shrimps here locally! Only potted, and then not often. And prawns are not nearly as nice.

Does anyone know whether you can freeze potted shrimps? I so love them but it’s not easy to buy them anywhere! xA

Chestnuts you always have to keep a few weeks for them to ripen properly. Like you do with walnuts, hazelnuts etc. All these nuts will then keep for quite a while, provided you put them somewhere not too damp and not too dry. My walnuts last a whole year, I'm just finishing off the 2017 ones! Chestn...

I put some markers on their graves!

We've got so many now I am doing a trial: some I bury in a tin in the garden and some others in a plastic jar. Some more I will just put in the ground like the squirrels do. The rest go in the wire net in the corridor, as always. I will let you know the outcome by spring!

These days, these days - I'm glad I can still pick them up from the road in my old age! I'm privileged to live in the countryside. I think I bought the tins when I was young ....

Good idea, that biscuit tin! I don't like storing everything in fridges and freezers when there are good old-fashioned alternatives.

Thanks!

Got no coalfire ..... :-(

The chestnut tree down the road is prolific this year. In the past I have kept them for a while and then soaked them (because by then they had dried out) before cooking them with Brussels' around christmas. But can I also cook and eat chestnuts straight away, or do I have to keep them a bit, like I ...

I am slowly reconciling myself to the fact that after a week in the fridge I have to throw a jarful of grains on the compost every day. I hate waste but it teaches me to no mind so much .... My neighbour benefits though: I give him one jar every week and he takes a spoonful of grains daily instead o...

You may have heard of kefir - a marvellous probiotic drink, much better than pills. Easily homemade. Water kefir is different again, but as lovely and can be made into all sorts of lovely drinks. The grains grow and grow, so you always have a surplus. Which is why I am offering them, for postage cos...

Thank you Aura. I am now marinading it. In a mixture of olive oil, pepper, salt and some too-sour-to drink water kefir. Which reminds me, I can offer water kefir grains, I will now look which forum that has to go under. Will let you know how the pigeon breasts work out!