Coming in from the cold
Frost .. Schmost. With the cold weather starting to kick in, there’s still lots to make and do in the vegetable garden. I’m stunned still to have some chillis and […]
Category Archives: Own recipes
Dessication Situation
It’s all too easy to see growing your own vegetables through rose-coloured glasses. But home grown products easily can turn out underwhelming: awkwardly-shaped, tough and – worst of all – […]
Heaps of Harvests
..the joy tempered only by my enrolment in the caterpillar calamity club You could be forgiven for thinking my garlic plants were dead a couple of weeks ago, with their […]
Finding Flavours
This is that phase of the vegetable growing year when all the hard work seems to be done: digging over and clearing ground at the end of winter and sowing […]
A game of squash
Having wanted for a long time to try cooking spaghetti squash I took the plunge today. The squash concerned was a decent two and a half pounds specimen, the biggest […]
Drying and Roasting
Just like squirrels burying their supply of nuts, it’s time for vegetable gardeners to bring in final harvests from many of the main growing season’s plants and store them for […]
Fig Roles
The biggest harvests coming in from the garden at the moment are tomatoes: delicious, strong-tasting, deep red tomatoes. And happily there are so many ways of enjoying them that the […]
Beige is history
Or how, in time, one’s grub can turn green Imagine you judged the desirability of food by its colour. When I was a child I liked food that was cake […]
Oh Great. Just go and leave us, why don’t you ..
No, you go, we’ll manage just fine. Go and enjoy your holiday – we’ll just have to look after ourselves won’t we .. Despite hours of carefully setting up hoses, […]
Heinous Horseradish
Or The plant that knew no boundaries … The unseasonal high temperatures – 12C with five days to go until Christmas – left me no excuse to delay the inevitable […]
