Topic: What did your allotment/garden provide for the Christmas Dinner?

[daveyboi]

I had some runner beans and french beans that I froze back in the summer along with potatoes and carrots  ;D

[goodlife]

We had mixed roast veg..garlic, squash, potatoes were our own...everything else I had to buy as own grown are in frozen ground ::) But once the winter freeze is over I shall enjoy what ever survive ;D

[ajb]

Roast potatoes and roast parsnips ... mmm any leftovers?

[Tin Shed]

Roast potatoes [Blue Danube - will be growing them again next year!] and carrots.

[grawrc]

Potatoes, carrots, parsnip, fennel. shallots, onions, garlic, rhubarb wine, elderflower wine, blackcurrant wine!

Tiramisu before ya gogo!!

[Lottiman]

spuds,parsnips and runner beans(frozen)

[plot51A]

Fresh sprouts, frozen broadies and raspberries. Couldn't get the carrots and parsnips out the ground, had to buy them   :'(

[George the Pigman]

Parsnips and Potatoes (dug during the thaw a week ago) and a Japanese Pumpkin given to me by a fellow allotmenteer. Couldn't get to the plot to get  the sprouts so ended up getting them from Sainsbury's).
Grew some Cape Gooseberrys and used them in a Chestnut stuffing and it was a cracker!
Home grow onions with a Parsley and Apple stuffing but had to buy the Parsley as it was frosted out in our garden.

[Susiebelle]

Please share grawrc, just how did you manage fennel on christmas day - I tried storing mine in peat as suggested by someone here but unfortunately it just rotted!

[hippydave]

I had carrots, parsnips,potatoes,sprouts, and braised red cabbage made with my apples and onions.

[pumkinlover]

Freshly squeezed apple juice and damson jam on toast for breakfast.

Curried pumpkin soup (own garlic, onion and big orange pumpkin-no flavour-hence curried!!) :-[  for lunch

Dinner- parsnips, potatoes, sprouts, and french beans from the freezer.

Anne x

[brownowl23]

well for today sadly only the spuds. Couldnt get to the allotment to dig the parsnips but I think they'd have been too snow bound.

For tomorrow ive got tomato soup made from puree made rfom tomaotes from the lottie and garden. I also have new christmas potatoes.

[Melbourne12]

We had home grown onions and apples with (bought) red cabbage.

Sprouts were bought because we couldn't harvest our own.  :(  Ditto parsnips.

But the vegetarian option, which was a spinach and cheese soufflé, had own own spinach in it.

Home grown raspberries for pud.

So not too bad, given the weather.

[Bugloss2009]

chilis, squash, parsnip, haricot beans, redcurrants  and a LEMON  8)

[Sparkly]

I managed to chisel out some parsnips and carrots from the plot yesterday! We used our potatoes, carrots, parsnips and garlic :)

[PurpleHeather]

Well we went to a certain supermarket yesterday and they had lots of veg marked down including packs of lovely fresh washed salad for 20p. It did not seem worth while getting the pick axe out to try to rescue veg from the frozen solid ground.

The red onions, picked and stored from the plot, quartered, went into the mixed roast roots and there was some apple sauce from our Bramleys. Garlic too which had been gathered and kept.

We must be pigs for potatoes because even though half the plot was turned over to them we managed to get through ours by the end of November. Small ones I have kept in the hope we might get seed potatoes from them but I looked yesterday and they are beginning to sprout already.

There are still strawberries in the freezer and they will be going into a strawberry trifle.  Even though they will be soft the flavour will be better than the ones sold as fresh at this time of year.

I made soup from our tomatoes and courgettes which I froze and  thought of having but, there is only a certain amount one can eat.Sadly.

[GrannieAnnie]

Pumpkin pie from butternuts.

[Mortality]

We had Leeks, French Beans, Carrots and Peas, all grown in my postage stamp garden  ;D

[grawrc]

Please share grawrc, just how did you manage fennel on christmas day - I tried storing mine in peat as suggested by someone here but unfortunately it just rotted!

I lifted a lot of veg in November when the weather was starting to turn nasty. Most of it has been stored either in brown paper bags in my cool larder or in the salad drawer in my fridge. There were a few brown patches on the fennel that I had to cut off but mostly it was fine.

[betula]

Well I could have supplied huge amounts of Runner Beans but they did not get a vote so all our lunch was provided by the lovely M and S as my Daughter thinks that is the only way to provide Xmas lunch and I must admit it was very very good   ;D