This tasty little rack of chops came from an 8 month old Merino x White Suffolk lamb.  The lamb in question was born and raised on our property and slaughtered by my husband, Terry.  It is reassuring to eat meat when you know exactly what the animal has eaten and how it has been handled from birth right through to slaughtering.  Terry is not a qualified butcher but his years of experience in home butchering means we always enjoy the best cuts of lamb and beef as well as home made sausages.  Perhaps making sausages might be another whole blog post one day!

My mother in law recently gave us a big box of plums from her prolific trees.  I simmered them slowly with a cinnamon stick and a split vanilla bean until they were very soft. They tasted incredibly sweet with a jam like consistency, although I did not add any sugar.  Perfect with muesli and natural yoghurt for breakfast!

Thanks again to my mother in law’s peach tree I baked this upside-down peach cake.  I used this recipe which Kate shared through her lovely blog Foxs Lane.  I breathed a sigh of relief when it came out of the cake tin relatively neatly!  The brown sugar on top caramelised slightly and served warm with cream it was a delight.