Something Stirring
Let me keep you company while also encouraging you to make that leap to try out new things in the kitchen and in the garden. If I can create simple, tasty meals then you certainly can. Join me and listen in on how I do it as I prep and cook meals from scratch with healthy and nutritious ingredients. It might not be as hard as you think!You could also join me in the garden and find out what grows and what doesn't. As a latecomer to gardening I have found that I would like to pass on my...
Ambient - Indistinct Chatter
Enjoy the white noise of indistinct chatter for 15 minutes.
In the Kitchen - Super Salad
Join me in the kitchen while I throw together a really easy salad from common kitchen ingredients. It is healthy and nutritious as well as being delicious and customisable.
Chickpeas, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, olives, red onion, dressing.
Help! My lettuce has bolted...
Join me while I have a look through the polytunnel and see what plants have succumbed to bolting in the hot weather.
In the Kitchen - Shepherdless Pie
Join me while I cobble together a vegetarian shepherd's pie with bits and pieces I have in the store cupboard and in the vegetable drawer.
Potatoes, carrots, onions, soya mince, 2x tins of mixed beans, grated cheese.
Ambient - Morning Routine
Getting the animals up and fed while also making coffee for myself.
In the Kitchen - Chunky Celery Soup
Join me while I make an easy, affordable and nutritious soup to keep you warm during these cool spring evenings.
1x pack of celery, 3x med potatoes, 2x large onions, stock & seasoning.
June Garden Updates
Take a walk around the garden and find out what is growing and what isn't!
Ambient - Billy & the birds
Spend 20 minutes chilling out with Billy the goat accompanied by a background of birds singing.
Kitchen DIY - Coleslaw
I am a big fan of doing things from scratch with fresh ingredients. Today we look at coleslaw and either making it from scratch or embellishing a store bought version and making it your own - delicious.
In the Kitchen - Potato based Quiche
Join me while I make a delicious, if a little complicated, quiche with a difference. It is a versatile dish that lasts in the fridge for snacking on either hot or cold. Yum!
3 medium potatoes, 7 eggs, 1x courgette, 2x sweet potato, feta cheese.
Kitchen DIY - Bean dips
Today it's bean dip! Totally easy, I don't know why everyone isn't doing it.
In the Kitchen - Pasta sauce with feta cheese
Listen in while I roast some cherry tomatoes and feta cheese to make a delicious pasta sauce.
4x punnets cherry toms, 1.5x packs feta, 2x onion (preferably red but I used white), stock & herbs.
Garden updates - phew, what a scorcher!!
Join me while I walk the garden and see what is growing and what has given up.
In the Kitchen - Chicken & Mushroom Soup
Join me while I guide you through making a very easy and tasty soup for this never-ending winter we seem to be having!
2 punnets mushrooms, left over chicken, chicken stock, onion, 2x cloves of garlic, long grain rice
Kitchen DIY - Tartare & Tatziki
I am a big fan of making things from scratch instead of buying them. Today we are going to make Tartare sauce for fish and Greek Tatziki dip. Two super easy 3 ingredient recipes.
Ambient - The Dawn Chorus
It is 5.30am, the birds are waking and singing their song. A full hour of the beautiful sound of the dawn chorus. Close your eyes and let the sound wash over you.
In the Garden - Updates
Join me for a brief walk around the garden to have a look at the successes and the failures.
In the Kitchen - Chili Non Carne
Join me while I cook up a batch on vegetarian chili. All prep done in under 20 minutes and a 20 minute simmer. Delicious!
2x onions, 3x carrots, 4 sticks of celery, stock, tin of tomatoes, tin of black beans, tin of taco beans, sweet potato, red lentils & spices.
In the Garden - Composting
Passionate about composting? I am...
In the Garden - Making a Raised bed
Join me while I construct an additional raised bed for the polytunnel, and listen to me witter on about all things garden... (sorry for the longer than usual episode!)
In the Garden - Just Chatting...
Join me while I start off chatting about the garden but go off on a huge tangent!
In the Kitchen - Yellow Split Pea Dhal
Join me while I cook up a delicious yellow split pea dhal.
Soaked yellow split peas, 2x onions, red lentils, grated sweet potato & carrot, 1x can chickpeas, spices.
In the Garden - Planting on
A quick update about what is happening today in the garden.
Ambient - The white noise of rainfall
Drift off while listening to rainfall with birds chirping in the background.
In the Garden - Successes & Failures
Join me in the garden as I check out what plants are growing and what ones are losing the battle to survive.
In the Kitchen - Banana Bread
Join me and make the easiest banana bread that is both tasty and (sort of) healthy.
3x bananas, 1x egg, 1.5 cups flour, 1/3 cup butter, 3/4 cup of sugar & tsp baking soda, salt, vanilla.
Recommended Podcasts
A brief breakdown of the podcasts I listen to regularly.
Ambient - In the Kitchen
Relax with the ambient sounds of me prepping in the kitchen.
Use the space you have.
A little bit of background about why and how my garden works. No matter what size you have, make it work for you.
In the Garden - Marigolds
Join me in the garden. The weather is looking up and there are plenty of tasks to complete. We start today by scattering some marigold seeds.
Ambient - Incremental Birdsong
An experimental offering of birdsong. Relaxing? Maybe not. Have a listen and let me know!
In the kitchen - Chunky Veggie Soup
Once again I am in the kitchen making a healthy and nutritious soup from the veggies in my larder.
1x potato, 2x carrots, 2x sweet potato, 2x onions & red lentils.
In the Garden - Seed updates
It only took 3 days for some of my seeds to germinate, nature is truly amazing!
In the Kitchen - Shakshuka (Paul's version)
Join me in the kitchen as I use up what's in the larder and make a very tasty version of shakshuka, a tomato and pepper based dish that can be quite versatile.
2x onions, 2x peppers, olives, 5x plum tomatoes, garlic, 1x block feta and 1x tin taco beans.
A diet for a change.
How and why I am dieting.
In the Garden - Garlic
Join me as I survey the garden after the winter and see what needs to be done.
Music track excerpt: Enlivening by Pufino
Why am I doing this!?
Let me tell you a little bit about why am I am doing this podcast.
In the Kitchen - Spinach & Feta Frittata
Join me and keep me company while I create a recipe that popped on my feed. A delicious, healthy and nutritious frittata, full of goodness.
6 eggs, 5 frozen squares of spinach, 1 potato, 1 can of cannellini beans, 1 block of feta & 1 onion.
Check out my Instagram for pictures @somrthingstirring.podcast
Ambient - Glencar waterfall
Drift away while listening to the soothing sound of running water at Glencar waterfall.
Visit https://www.discoverireland.ie/leitrim/glencar-waterfall to place yourself in the location, or visit Instagram @somethingstirring.podcast
In the kitchen - Very Celery Soup
Join me while I prepare and cook my Very Celery blended soup.
8-12 stalks of celery, 1 lge potato, 1 lge onion, 4 cloves of garlic, stock & seasoning (milk when blending)
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