Today is going to be a relish ‘n’ pickle day, now we’re opening a small shop in pontypridd we have to get the stock ready lol, we’ve developed 5 new chilli relish’s, 5 varieites of smoked pickles including a recipe from the 14th century for mixed pickles, and Im currently smoking the ingredients for the Smoked Cherry Bomb (cherry toms, chillies, onions, garlic all smoked for 6 hours before being chopped n blended), the problem is boiling vinegar and chillies really does get uncomforatble after a while, ah well, must carry on lol

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FINISHED !!!!!!1 Ive just filled the last jar of the 650 I bought with Cowleys Killer Ketchup, I smoked all the ingredients first Toms, onions and chillies etc for 6 hours over oak, its worked far better than I had hoped, frantically making stuff for the new stall.

Though I can hear the Xbox 360 calling me for an hour or two shooting nazis in the face lol. Then Im making a vat of Chaucers Medieval Mixed Pickles, we went to watch Sherlock last night its the best movie Ive seen in years, went to Nandos after its been ages since we went out .

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its been a rather good day today, been to look at the new indoor stall, went to the printers to look at the new labels and invented a new Chilli Ketchup for the stall, its lush, I smoked all the ingredients before making the Ketchup and also added scotch bonnets to it for a bit of bite, its going on the stall as

Cowleys Killer Ketchup

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Its been nearly a year since my last post, and what a year, its been fanttastic, the last 8 months have been better than the previous 2 years, the weather was mainly to blame forthe problems but we have changed a few things , we’re doing more indoor shows and also supplying a couple of other traders and also a couple of pubs and today we’ve been to the printers to look at our new labels, once they are done we will be able to approach bigger shops and see what happens from then.

The butchery course last year was a resounding success and we are having work done on the garden to be able to run them at least once a month, we have a facebook page with photo’s, its …..

Martins Meat Meet

We’re also spending some time trading in Europe, we do shows in France, Holland and Belgium and we have had quite a lot of interest from traders in Europe who want to stock our jerky as well, which is nice lol.

We also went to ponty prodd indoor market today as we’re opening a stall there which we will be using as a shop front, Ive dug out my old recipe book and Im making chilli based pickles ‘n’ relishs.

The butchery and jerky making demonstrations we’re doing at the reenactments is also taking off quite well and last year we saved about 2000k by doing the demo’s for free instead of paying a pitch fee

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Heres to a cracking good year !!

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