Shared Kitchen

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Category: Julie’s Blog

Time to RAK

The week’s round-up of recipes, news and views.
But more importantly, it’s time to do a RAK (Random Act of Kindness)

BUBBLE OF ONE

Bubbles! A bottle of bubbly needs friends, unless it is Covid Lockdown. In that case, either buy a Champagne stopper, or drink the lot!

Desperate to garden

Lockdown affects everyone, just in different ways. I don’t mind being alone, and like many writers, prefer it most of the time. Not having so many emails to deal with is a bonus. But I truly am desperate to garden. My little Podular housette is delayed, of course – the site is all ticked off and ready […]

Who’s in your bubble?

I’ve got a friend. He’s a bit spiky and he’s very shy. Still, it’s nice to have someone pop by. I also have pheasants – they’re very noisy – rosellas (they’re squawky but colourful), ducks (extremely noisy but quite magnificent), dozens of rabbits (that’s probably a bad thing but their little ears poking up out […]

Housette Update

9th August It’s all about site preparation. Last week a big drill thingy arrived so I knew holes were on the agenda, and sure enough the digger turned up again and did one of the other jobs it does well, dig holes. Who knew? I thought they just scooped up stuff. A sleeve is wrapped […]

A Busy Week

Yep, it’s been busy around here with trucks and diggers beeping and buzzing and men in hi-vis and hats. The progress with the ground work for my PODULAR housette has been hampered by rain, but finally this week the digger arrived and work commenced. You can see more in the pic and link below. Meanwhile, the oven has […]

RIP

Rest In Peace or Rip It Out …Moving a vegetable and herb garden is not easy!

Going French

Enjoy the classics … a little bit of pastry, a little bit of goat’s cheese. Mmm mmm.

Feedback on Shared Kitchen Book

Thank you Julie and Ilaria Your cookbook has been safely received. I have already included several of your recipes in our weekly meal plan. They all look so delicious and I love that the recipes are generally ‘no fuss’ – that’s my sort of cooking too! I really enjoy your newsletters as well. Jenny  Hello […]