What's For Supper?

We are really busy right now with bed and breakfast guests, some of whom have booked evening meals here.  Probably a wise move, as it never ceases to amaze us that it’s just not possible to get an evening meal in a pub or restaurant in the Tyne Valley on a Sunday evening – and Mondays can be pretty tricky too!  Ok – perhaps limit the evening meals in the winter, but in the height of the tourist season???!!!!

We have got four guests staying the night from Luxembourg – that’s a first for us.  I have cooked a Chicken Tagine with Lime and Lemon Couscous and a Rhubarb Syllabub for pudding.  Obviously, a tagine is not a Northumbrian dish, but rhubarb syllabub is very much a traditional English pudding – just hope they like rhubarb!!!!!!!!!!    Mike picked the rhubarb from the garden this afternoon.  It’s so good to eat fresh garden produce when it’s in season.  I have to say that my sons might not be impressed with rhubarb, but it is particularly delicious as the rhubarb is cooked in the juice of an orange, spiced with star anise and cardamom pods.  Yum, Yum!!!

Our pigs are growing enormously and loving their woodland freedom – not a chance of weighing them as they have grown so much and are really speedy. They are really sociable and always rush over to see you.

Talking of things growing, our little cria who was born last weekend, has put on 1.9 kgs in a week.  I think we can safely assume that she is doing fine!