January 1st went out with a bang! No I don't mean fireworks. I mean metaphorically. As I mentioned, we started as we mean to go on and got 32 ducks eggs in the incubator. The ducks have been laying fantastically during December so we had plenty spare.
The chickens have been laying though not as well. We did find a nest where to 2 or 3 escapees have been laying.
We won't be incubating any chicken eggs until the new ones start laying which will be March (time all being well)
January is about getting back to healthy, home cooking after a month of indulgences. I make the kids a white loaf and looking to make this one for me. Ste is on the carnivore diet so can't have any.
Needless to say. eggs are featuring on the menu daily, Ste's too as he can eat them on the diet he's doing.
As we are working through the food left over from Christmas (I don't mean turkey here) I have one eye on what's in the garden as that's what I'll be relying on soon.
Steven managed to get the new compost bays finished and they look amazing. We are going to add a pathway in front of the bays to allows the barrow down and make it 'sweepable'.
They are a great size and I think will stand the test of time. He's done a grand job and are going to add so much value to the veg garden.
Mid week I sent this photo to Lou, my besty over in Wales. It's funny what makes you happy as you get older 😂 but she got it!
It means we'll stop piling the recycle up on the counter top.
Before the purse snapped shut on January 1st I had bought this lovely 2 litre cast iron pan (this is it if you can't resist either: https://amzn.to/3NXTgBr )
The first meal I made it in was a salt of the earth meal, mince and taties with carrot and red cabbage.
Ste brought some bones home from work to make bone broth. These are beef bones and we roasted them in the aga. The bones were then added to water and cooked for 24 hours before pressure canning them to put on the shelf.
It hasn't been as cold as previous January's but its still cold enough to have the log burner on. There was a ground frost on the veg beds this morning.
I wanted to share with you something that my daughter Grace got me for Christmas. Isn't it beautiful, you can't beat a nice basket.
How lovely to be able to get the animals out in the day light.
Lou also told me about a baked oat recipe that sounded lovely, so I looked online and got the details to add to what she had sent me. It was really nice - I made it in the video we did for this weekend's vlog. Vlog Link 
After a lovely breakfast I met Ste outside for a few hours of work, part of which was to get this plum tree in. It's a Victoria Plum on a semi dwarf root stock.
I also managed to get some Chilli pressure canned which is great as that's now a meal on the shelf.
I hope the first week of the year was productive for you.
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