Published Date:

December 2011

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

By Andrea Maguire / 23 Dec 2011
Fireplace

I’d like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy holiday season as it’s also Chanukah… Amy helped me make Christmas Florentine biscuits…

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Pear-fect

By Andrea Maguire / 27 Nov 2011
Pears

We picked the last of our pears today and that is the end of a bumper crop this year!  We’ve been eating them, juicing, making…

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Smooth(ie) Operator

By Andrea Maguire / 14 Nov 2011
Smoothie

That old saying – we are what we eat – keeps coming up again and again.  This time I spotted an article (Sunday Times, 11…

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RAWsome!

By Andrea Maguire / 21 Oct 2011
Split Farthing Hall

We did it!  It’s been an exciting couple of months with the launch of The Retreat at Split Farthing Hall.  We’ve held our first few…

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Spreading the word – or not!

By Andrea Maguire / 2 Oct 2011
Butter

As you should know by now, the provenance of my food is what is so important to me.  And that is why I’ve always been…

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We’re Jammin’ Again

By Andrea Maguire / 7 Sep 2011

It’s that time year again – already.  All the plums are ripe at the same time again, including the Damsons!  Plus we just collected bags…

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