Edward Barrow
@ejoftheweb.bsky.social
Part-time Londoner: woke liberal socialist, empiricist. Likes food, dancing, gardening, interested in politics, economics, environment. Likely to block bigots and denialists of any stripe; will block crypto bros etc.
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The very last of this year's tomatoes. And basil from the pot on the kitchen doorstep.
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The very last of this year's tomatoes. And basil from the pot on the kitchen doorstep.
🍽️Leek Tatin🍽️ sections of leek, browned on their ends in butter, allowed to cool, topped with cheese and all-butter puff pastry from the supermarket, baked, inverted. Was very nice, all gone now...
October 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🍽️Leek Tatin🍽️ sections of leek, browned on their ends in butter, allowed to cool, topped with cheese and all-butter puff pastry from the supermarket, baked, inverted. Was very nice, all gone now...
As a ch'ti, it's got to be Vico en direct de Picardie
August 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
As a ch'ti, it's got to be Vico en direct de Picardie
🍽️ Today's jam: red gooseberries picked this morning, cooked to 104°C with 70% sugar-raw fruit ratio, taste-test on fromage blanc. Colour great, beautifully sharp, refreshing dessert. 🍽️
July 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
🍽️ Today's jam: red gooseberries picked this morning, cooked to 104°C with 70% sugar-raw fruit ratio, taste-test on fromage blanc. Colour great, beautifully sharp, refreshing dessert. 🍽️
A field of flax up our lane being cut. It will lie in the field for months before being collected to be processed into fibre for linen. 75% of the world's linen is grown in Northern France. Love that my favourite summer fabric is so local to me.
July 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A field of flax up our lane being cut. It will lie in the field for months before being collected to be processed into fibre for linen. 75% of the world's linen is grown in Northern France. Love that my favourite summer fabric is so local to me.
A self-sown wild cherry tree in the garden is making decent sized cherries, and it's close enough to the house to deter the birds from taking them all
June 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A self-sown wild cherry tree in the garden is making decent sized cherries, and it's close enough to the house to deter the birds from taking them all
@stuartbourne.bsky.social operation recover the secret rose-garden from two years of neglect continues. Still waiting for some of the bower roses to bloom. The hedge at the back needs serious surgery to give more light, but that will have to wait until nesting is over.
June 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
@stuartbourne.bsky.social operation recover the secret rose-garden from two years of neglect continues. Still waiting for some of the bower roses to bloom. The hedge at the back needs serious surgery to give more light, but that will have to wait until nesting is over.
🍽️ and considerably more lime peel achar than we need: time to find something else to do with squeezed limes.... 🍽️
May 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🍽️ and considerably more lime peel achar than we need: time to find something else to do with squeezed limes.... 🍽️
🍽️Restocking the larder with almost-instant desserts for the winter (just add custard, fromage blanc or crème fraîche): gooseberries and rhubarb the start of the season that will end in November with the last of the apples. 🍽️
May 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🍽️Restocking the larder with almost-instant desserts for the winter (just add custard, fromage blanc or crème fraîche): gooseberries and rhubarb the start of the season that will end in November with the last of the apples. 🍽️
🍽️ Garden produce for lunch today: new potatoes, broad beans, a tiny courgette, garlic greens, tomatoes and basil. All picked this morning - a hopeful harbinger of many more summer lunches. Butter, salt and pepper not home-grown. 🍽️
May 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🍽️ Garden produce for lunch today: new potatoes, broad beans, a tiny courgette, garlic greens, tomatoes and basil. All picked this morning - a hopeful harbinger of many more summer lunches. Butter, salt and pepper not home-grown. 🍽️
@realseeds.co.uk First tomato of the year - and outdoors too! (ten days after planting out). I'm sure you can guess the variety! (Walnut for scale)
May 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
@realseeds.co.uk First tomato of the year - and outdoors too! (ten days after planting out). I'm sure you can guess the variety! (Walnut for scale)
Like this "Wild Edric", which beat every other rose into flower this year, even 2//n
May 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Like this "Wild Edric", which beat every other rose into flower this year, even 2//n
I know they're now considered an invasive weed - but R.rugosa hedges are unbeatable. Everything you want in a rose: a scent so powerful and the ephemeral beauty of the flowers all summer long. Its genes are in many commercial roses, 1/ #gardening #roses
May 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I know they're now considered an invasive weed - but R.rugosa hedges are unbeatable. Everything you want in a rose: a scent so powerful and the ephemeral beauty of the flowers all summer long. Its genes are in many commercial roses, 1/ #gardening #roses
🍽️Neighbour gave us two goose eggs. Can confirm that one goose egg is the same as three small hen's eggs. We had them scrambled for breakfast.🍽️
May 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🍽️Neighbour gave us two goose eggs. Can confirm that one goose egg is the same as three small hen's eggs. We had them scrambled for breakfast.🍽️
🍽️ Practice makes perfect, and there are some things I only get to practise once a year, like hot cross buns - but these seem to have come out pretty well. 🍽️
April 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🍽️ Practice makes perfect, and there are some things I only get to practise once a year, like hot cross buns - but these seem to have come out pretty well. 🍽️
Mine is much more of a mess after a year of total neglect but I did rebuild the rustic rose bower. Prickly work. It should look, smell and sound much better in a couple of months.
April 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Mine is much more of a mess after a year of total neglect but I did rebuild the rustic rose bower. Prickly work. It should look, smell and sound much better in a couple of months.
🍽️ Lunch today is leek and chicken pie with mash. Leeks were €3 for a huge 3kg bunch in the market yesterday. 🍽️
March 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🍽️ Lunch today is leek and chicken pie with mash. Leeks were €3 for a huge 3kg bunch in the market yesterday. 🍽️
🍽️ The last pancake of the day, by which time I get most of them right. Once a year is not enough practice! Plenty of melted butter stirred into the batter makes them extra good. And nothing beats old-fashioned sugar and lemon juice on them 🍽️
March 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🍽️ The last pancake of the day, by which time I get most of them right. Once a year is not enough practice! Plenty of melted butter stirred into the batter makes them extra good. And nothing beats old-fashioned sugar and lemon juice on them 🍽️
🍽️ When there's sleet outside and the oven says 'bake' it would be churlish not to. So I baked a dozen hazel and chocolate bakewell tartlets, freestyle recipe... I use a gluten-pastry for this sort of thing, it is much more forgiving and equally delicious 🍽️
February 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🍽️ When there's sleet outside and the oven says 'bake' it would be churlish not to. So I baked a dozen hazel and chocolate bakewell tartlets, freestyle recipe... I use a gluten-pastry for this sort of thing, it is much more forgiving and equally delicious 🍽️
🍽️I tend not to use recipes, even when baking. And this is a freestyled success: a chocolate cake made with ground hazelnuts. The other half is in the freezer; with this cold weather the Rayburn oven invites more baking than is healthy for two retired folk to be eating 🍽️
February 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🍽️I tend not to use recipes, even when baking. And this is a freestyled success: a chocolate cake made with ground hazelnuts. The other half is in the freezer; with this cold weather the Rayburn oven invites more baking than is healthy for two retired folk to be eating 🍽️
🍽️ Lunch today will be a hot bean stew - garlicky gigantes swimming in oil and chopped chard leaves, beans and chard both from our garden via the cupboard and freezer. To be served with baked potatoes.... 🍽️
February 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🍽️ Lunch today will be a hot bean stew - garlicky gigantes swimming in oil and chopped chard leaves, beans and chard both from our garden via the cupboard and freezer. To be served with baked potatoes.... 🍽️
🍽️ Eggy bread - Poor Knights, pain perdu, French Toast - is usually sweet. But this is masala eggy bread: stale sourdough soaked in egg, milk, s&p and what ever spices take your fancy, fried and served with grilled tomatoes - a quick, easy and delicious supper.🍽️
February 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🍽️ Eggy bread - Poor Knights, pain perdu, French Toast - is usually sweet. But this is masala eggy bread: stale sourdough soaked in egg, milk, s&p and what ever spices take your fancy, fried and served with grilled tomatoes - a quick, easy and delicious supper.🍽️
Poor Tom had a misadventure last night. Probably missed his footing while in next door's farmyard and fell in some cowdung. We have been cleaning him up all day.
January 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Poor Tom had a misadventure last night. Probably missed his footing while in next door's farmyard and fell in some cowdung. We have been cleaning him up all day.
🍽️ We've been saving the skins of all the limes we squeeze, and have made a significant batch of lime pickle from them. (H/T a throwaway remark from Nadiya Hussain on The Kitchen Cabinet)
January 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🍽️ We've been saving the skins of all the limes we squeeze, and have made a significant batch of lime pickle from them. (H/T a throwaway remark from Nadiya Hussain on The Kitchen Cabinet)
Saw these on sale at Aldi in Auxi-le-Château. I'm guessing It doesn't have quite the same connotations in France as it would to old UK ravers...
January 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Saw these on sale at Aldi in Auxi-le-Château. I'm guessing It doesn't have quite the same connotations in France as it would to old UK ravers...