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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #440 on: June 04, 2010, 22:05:40 »
Lettuce, rocket, basil and parsley salad.  :)

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #441 on: June 05, 2010, 16:55:30 »
I've just picked: asparagus (lots), the first baby carrots, radishes, a baby cauliflower, some red spring onions (over-wintered), a couple of lettuce and my first head of garlic. Plus rhubarb picked yesterday.

But my birthday meal is incomplete: no potatoes!!!! For the first time since I've been gardening - and probably in my entire life - I haven't been able to lift any. Serves me right for boasting on the Potato Challenge thread a few months back!

No broad beans yet, either.

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #442 on: June 05, 2010, 17:05:16 »
Not that much stuff ready on our plot yet, but yesterday we did have red onions and lettuce in our salad. Today we are having mashed potatoes, broad beans and runner beans frozen from last years crop. I have just done a freezer audit to try and ensure we finish off the stuff in the freezer so have some room when the crops arrive. I thought we had eaten allthe broad beans - no there are 13 x 3 portion bags! Same with the carrots - no 6 x 3 portion bags. I have also totally forgot about the huge box of plums and huge box of blackberries I froze to make jam!

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #443 on: June 05, 2010, 18:33:43 »
Found the last few raspberries at the back of the freezer.

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #444 on: June 05, 2010, 20:53:30 »
first watercress salad of the year  8)

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #445 on: June 05, 2010, 23:30:25 »
Peas ;D
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #446 on: June 06, 2010, 19:24:53 »
Another yummy stir fry with peas, courgette, radish, shallots, garlic, horseradish leaves and  parsley from lottie with some shop items..mind though..didn't need much adding to that lot... ;D ;D

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #447 on: June 06, 2010, 22:56:06 »
New potatoes and asparagus,  :D
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #448 on: June 06, 2010, 23:04:58 »
Webs Wonderful Lettuce!!
Rocket!!
Chives!!
Radish!!

* Goodlife I didn't know you could eat horseradish leaves !! :o how do you use them?
dont be fooled by the name I am a Lady!! :-*

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #449 on: June 07, 2010, 12:42:02 »
Had the first of our sugar snaps over the weekend - they were fantastic. Will definitely do them again next year.

Broad beans and lettuce the only other things ready. Rhubarb has, I think, suffered from the drought

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #450 on: June 07, 2010, 12:47:28 »

* Goodlife I didn't know you could eat horseradish leaves !! :o how do you use them?

can be used in salads or used to wrap food in to cook but there's this you might like

http://www.eatweeds.co.uk/horseradish-leaf-bubble-and-squeak

and this

http://www.horseradish.org/homepage.html

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #451 on: June 07, 2010, 12:52:42 »
cabbage

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #452 on: June 07, 2010, 13:04:16 »
Radish and Rocket  :)

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #453 on: June 07, 2010, 13:19:04 »
 
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Goodlife I didn't know you could eat horseradish leaves !!  how do you use them?
I just pull some off and chop them smaller and slightly cook them..like kale..or cabbage..or to spice up salads you can eat it raw too.. ;)..in sandwich..etc..

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #454 on: June 07, 2010, 14:14:34 »
Peas, mangetout, PSB, cabbage,  radish, rocket and some potatoes dug up over the weekend for the spud challenge with parsley.  Strawberries yummy.   

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #455 on: June 07, 2010, 19:25:17 »
My challenge spuds with fresh mint and chicken kebabs on the barbie.  :P       ;D ;D ;D
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #456 on: June 07, 2010, 19:36:58 »
The rest of my challenge spuds, first pick of broadies, a little bit of calabrese that had decided to run to seed ( ???) and a few - very few - peas. Lovely!

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #457 on: June 07, 2010, 21:38:35 »
Been eating mixed rocket, spicy leaves, red and white icicle radishes. Debating whether to have a firckle for some potatoes.  ;D

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #458 on: June 08, 2010, 10:49:11 »
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harvested some honey at the weekend, yummy!!
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #459 on: June 08, 2010, 17:20:32 »
Just had my first of this season - Had a small firkle and nicked some baby spuds and I thinned out some baby turnip  :) Used them in a veg soup that my wife had made.

4 weeks time I will be in full flow.

 

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