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Apple pie and ice cream
We are still using up apples from last year so we used a stash of them in an enormous apple pie. Such a dish cannot be eaten alone so we used our new ice cream maker again. This time we made a fruit ice cream. Having kept all the fruit we use to make our fruit liqueurs, we now had a use for all those gin-pickled raspberries. In ice cream they are lovely. We also made a bit more vanilla. We rationed ourselves so as not to pig out on the whole lot in one day. It took us four days of self-control to get through it all.
Until 2009 I was working in London, UK, but I gave it up to pursue a life of self-sufficiency. My aim is to grow or forage for all my food, produce my own power and live a healthier and greener lifestyle. I left London to return to my home village of Sunniside, near Newcastle, in the North East of England. I have a couple of plots of land there as well as the garden of my house. Our village is a commuter area for Newcastle but we are surrounded by countryside which we use for picking wild foods. My mission in life is to show that it is possible to live well without destroying the planet in the process. I am also keen to ensure knowledge of historic recipes and cooking is kept alive. I regularly try out recipes from old cookbooks using the food we have grown. I make videos about our progress and about how to cook home-grown foods. These can be viewed on www.youtube.com/jonathanwallace.
www.self-sufficientinsuburbia.blogspot.com
Source: http://self-sufficientinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2015/01/apple-pie-and-ice-cream.html
