A snowy scene awaited us as we opened the curtains this morning.
Well - that called for a walk.
With sledges.
And a flask full of tea!
We walked through ancient old drover's tracks,
passed houses with date posts of 1697 and
through medieval field strips.
We went through pastures,
that in summer are filled with campion, meadow grasses, vetch and ox-eye daises,
but today we were knee deep in snow.
The boys sledged down every possible slope
Several times.........
We met some of the locals,
who seemed genuinely pleased to see us.
We crossed an ancient bridge - built in the 1670s
We walked by frozen mill ponds
and as we got nearer the end of our walk,
it started to snow again.
Wonderful.
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The best way to recover from a walk like that
is to do this..........
Fry diced onions with garlic in olive oil
Add to some par-boiled potatoes in their skins, which you gently smash
Chuck in roughly chopped parsley and
grate some really tasty chedder cheese
Mix together with a good gloop of milk
Put the resulting mix into a pastry case
and
voila'
Bon apetit!
And if you want a more accurate rendition of this recipe
It is known as a Homity Pie
Hmmmmmmm.
Yum.
That pie looks wonderful. You walk looks so inviting. The openess of your area is so appealing. I visit Italy, Rome, etc this past spring and my daughter and I went walking through the small villages, up and down and down and up and through paths that seems as though we were in someone's backyards. It kind of reminds me of where you are. I will post pictures this year of that special time. I told Amy of all the places in Italy we visited, that little village was my favorite!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful walk, beautiful homity pie which I suspect I shall simply HAVE to make.
ReplyDeleteJan -
ReplyDeleteItaly is somewhere I would love to visit, but there is so much here in the uk that I've not seen yet. I look forward to seeing your pictures.
Thursday - I thoroughly recommend homity pie, it fills the corners on a cold day. And if you can keep it that long, it cuts well when cold to be eaten as a packed lunch.