Sally Vincent’s Diary of Food and Life on a Devon Farm.
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Hashi!
Or perhaps, more importantly, sono hashi ni tuitara, wattatte shimae……or “ cross that bridge when you get to it………………” September went out on a high; a heat wave to remember, temperatures soaring into the eighties. People flocked to park and beach grasping the last vestige of summer as rumour spread of a freezing winter to…
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Slow roast pork
Ideally, if you have time, stuff a boned shoulder of pork with apples and celery, onion and breadcrumbs, sage and lemon, all bound together with soft butter and a beaten egg; salt and pepper of course. But if you’re in a hurry, on the way to work or taking the children to school, leave out…
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Vegetable Soup
But first I need a warming Vegetable Soup for a quick lunch. There’s nothing as comforting as a big bowl of homemade soup when dogs and I have been blown home from the farmyard by a sharp south easterly. I choose the ingredients for soup according to the sort of stock I have in the…
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Summer Again
“Our little village among the trees, by the river” As Devon fills up once more with holiday makers we somehow remain untouched in our silent valley, the world passing us by. A few more cars hoot on the bend by the gate, voices and laughter occasionally waft across the hillside but mostly our silence is…
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Bread
Lambs and ewes bask in the sunshine on top of the hill sheltered from the strong south westerly, a wind so strong this Sunday morning that it pushes me back as, scrambling up to the top of steep field, I stumble through the gate following the distressed cry of a lamb and the frantic baaing…
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Spring Lambs
Untitled from Paul Vincent on Vimeo.
