Trish Ish | The urban guide to becoming selfsufficientish

Taking the fear out of winemaking part 2 – By MKG

January 6, 2010 Trish Ish 14

Part 1 – Getting rid of the fairy stories – is available here. Messing around in a bucket Those somewhat fictitious “traditional” ancestors of ours made wine in anything they could find. Usually, they would […]

Taking the fear out of wine making part 1 – By MKG

December 11, 2009 Trish Ish 11

Getting rid of the fairy stories If I said to a fairly representative group “Take some fruit juice, squeeze some lemon juice into it, empty a bag of sugar into it, top up to about […]

Comfrey

October 30, 2009 Trish Ish 5

Common Comfrey is related to both the herb ‘borage’ and the similar plant ‘Russian comfrey.’ Herbalists have used it for centuries, including the classical Greeks and the Turks. Its old English name was […]

Iron, Calcium and Salt

October 30, 2009 Trish Ish 3

IronIron is useful throughout the body but it is mainly present in our blood where it is attached to a molecule known as haemoglobin. It is the presence of these haemoglobin molecules that gives us […]

How to dye clothes naturally

October 30, 2009 Trish Ish 1

Extract from Selfsufficientish Bible You can use a range of plants for home dying. Clothes that are dyed with natural dyes should not be machine washed as the colours can run. Before dying, treat the […]

No space to grow? No problem

October 30, 2009 Trish Ish 0

This article originally appeared on the Big Green Idea’s newsletter for December 2008 The dream of becoming self-sufficient in at least food is one that many of us aspire to but unfortunately few of us […]

Perennial Far Eastern Potato Soup

October 30, 2009 Trish Ish 0

This is a great recipe for any time of the year as many of the ingredients can be grown or foraged all year round (i.e. wild leaves and mushrooms) or as with potatoes, carrots and […]

Wild Food July

June 23, 2009 Trish Ish 0

Things really start to hot up in July, the evenings are still long, schools are out and Americans celebrate Independence Day. In the world of plants and fungi there is a celebration of it’s own […]

Mixed Fruit and Yoghurt with Seeds

December 10, 2008 Trish Ish 0

Mixed Fruit and Yoghurt with Seeds This can be made without the seeds if you don’t have any, but seeds will make it a lot tastier and will set you up for the day. This […]

Using Sour Milk – Pancakes, Soda Bread, Toad in the Hole

November 24, 2008 Trish Ish 0

A couple of weeks ago I opened up the bag and to my horror found a litre of unopened milk that had been sat in the bag for somewhere between 4 days and a week! I picked up the semi-solid, yoghurty liquid and put it in the fridge cursing myself for being so wasteful. Later that day I returned home with some eggs and clumsily dropped a full box of them on the floor! As I poured the three broken eggs into a jug I thought to myself that making a batter with the eggs and sour milk would be the best course of action rather than waste all of that food. […]