four months without buying food: Christmas is over

Sorry for not posting sooner, but busy with the family and other things.
Christmas was a good time spent with the family, sleeping a bit longer ,working in the wooden house and going out for some walks. Food preparation did not take long as I did plan the menu' in advance. It was a very good feeling to be able to eat together dishes made at home from our cultivated ingredients, game, rescued products, and wild ones.
On Christmas Eve we had scallops Au gratin for starter and my fish cakes ( Cod ones).They were delicious. I used the small mince pies containers to create small individual mouthful bites. This recipe is worth a try. Cut the scallops in small pieces. In a bowl chop some parsley, garlic, and add grated breadcrumbs and a bit of cheddar cheese or Parmesan cheese.Then, add a bit of olive oil and lemon juice. You have to make a soft paste. Put the scallops in the container and then cover them with the paste. Grill for about 10 minutes.
The wine chosen was a white golden one made from rhubarb.
Christmas day starter was home made grissini ( too hard to be honest.do not know why), the very first home made ham and mushrooms from the queen rock above Drum. For the starter we tried a nettle wine.
The main course was home made lasagna.We drank red cherry wine for this dishes.
In the evening we had a partridge inside a pheasant, roasted with reduced wild cherry paste and roast potatoes and carrots, plus our first Brussels sprouts from the garden. I boiled them, then fried with garlic,parsley,bit of spices and wild cherry paste. Very good combination. Christopher ate them with no fuss.
A ciabatta bred with sesame seeds was made for this dinner. The wine we choose was a red Worcesterberries one.
To finish we had our first panettone cake with a rhubarb wine A which is much sweeter than the other batch.
Sunday for lunch was vegetable soup and rescued sandwiches. We were working in the wooden house so I had my lunch in there.
On Sunday evening we tried a scallop recipe from an old book.The scallops were simmered in milk first, then finished to cook in the oven in mini containers ( saved from mince pies ) on top of mash potato, and covered with a mixture of cheddar cheese, bread crumbs, Marsala wine and a drop of oil. The dish was interesting and the scallops had a much milder taste.
On Monday lunch was a different vegetable soup to keep ourselves warm, but in the evening after a two hours walk, we made a bonfire on the top of the garden and we roasted parsnips, potatoes and Tuscan sausages( a gift from our neighbour). We sat outside in front of the fire under our top garden hut, drank a dram of whiskey and had a good conversation about life, nature and related arguments.
There were left over from the roast pheasant and partridge.Lesley boiled the bones and separated the remain meat. On Tuesday night we then had a curried bird Shepperd pie made from Lesley. It was a real good dish. In fact we ate it all and Christopher had a double portion after he hesitated ....when he tried the first one.
Today a t lunch time I made a soup with potato, carrots, onions. butterscotch, coriander seeds and the stock from the birds. Very tasty indeed.
We did very well with our food recipes and we really enjoyed the all experiment with nothing than natural ingredients. It was a very good Christmas. I will be posting some pictures tomorrow.

Christmas starter with home made grissini and home made prosciutto.