Despite Covid and all the restrictions we’ve had, we have had a very busy summer. We did not reopen until 1st July. It was with great trepidation that we re-opened, and we were so unsure of how...
https://ayearinredwood.com/2021/11/09/and-we-can-breathe-again/
Is it just my lockdown brain that is causing me to crave foods I haven’t had in years and years? Are others going through the same thing? I am frantically trying to avoid baking ….. well if I...
This is the third option on the Christmas liqueurs that I make. It is so simple and straight forward, it really and truly is. You have the Cointreau and Limoncino recipes both of which require a ...
https://ayearinredwood.com/2020/12/10/oldfarm-coffee-liqueur/
There is so much pressure on people to ‘shop local’ this year. A good thing in our opinion. Actually I wish they didn’t have to have this mammoth advertising push to encourage people to do ...
When my nieces and nephews were younger and came to stay, we would always carve a pumpkin. I hated the waste of just throwing the flesh to the hens or pigs (although they enjoyed them). I tried p...
Death is part of keeping livestock. There is a saying “if you have livestock, you will have deadstock”. Being able to say that does not make it any easier! When you raise animals be it pi...
https://ayearinredwood.com/2020/06/10/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
Well here we are. How many weeks into this ‘lockdown’/pandemic? I’m not sure. Some days I even struggle to figure out what day of the week it is! How are you doing? I have to admit some...
Within hours of posting my last post, our lives changed even further and now 2 weeks on, we’ve had big changes again! We are in what is being called ‘lock down’ with travel restrictions a...
Strange times indeed. Since last Thursday (12th March) our country has changed. The government announced measures to contain the now infamous #CoronaVirus by asking us all to restrict our movem...
https://ayearinredwood.com/2020/03/17/what-times-we-live-in/
You all know that I make liqueurs at Christmas time… mainly as gifts for friends, but it would be wrong not to keep some for ourselves, wouldn’t it? I’m not that into desserts myself … ha...
https://ayearinredwood.com/2020/03/03/cointreau-orange-cheesecake/