Making melt and pour soap, scented with orange and jasmine essential oil, is incredibly simple. I love scented soaps, and used to enjoy buying nice soaps in the UK. However, shopping opportunities are very limited around us here. We have 3 small local stores within about 15 minutes’ drive, or we do the hour car run to…
Archives for January 2019
Starting our vegetable garden
We start a vegetable garden in the Alentejo, Portugal. One of my biggest goals in life is to create a vegetable garden that can feed us throughout the year. Everyone near us in Portugal grows their own, and every vegetable garden both in and around the Alentejo villages are a joy to see. All year they…
Quick Quince Chutney
How to make a quick, simple and delicious quince chutney. ‘Tis the season for quince here, and the quinces that grow around us are amazing. They are large, yellow, fragrant fruit that grow plentifully on trees in the local kitchen gardens. We don’t have a quince tree on our land – something I hope to remedy…