Your dinner sounds lovely, sorry to hear about your work though :(
Lushy x
Steamed Salmon from my pond, ;) ...
fried all the toms that had split while we were away, added a couple of fresh from the chickens eggs, couple of slices of home made bread, toasted, meal fit for anyone , followed by our just ready discovery apples ;DWho needs a Michelin star with a feast like that :)
Potatoes runners Roast parsnips(I couldn't wait for the frost)And a nice pork steak
Hyacinth, could you put the recipe up please? I have something of a glut and there's only so much ratatouille I can eat......
Salmon in foil, with mushrooms, and my spuds, carrots, french beans and onions all steamed. :P ;D ;D ;D
Made a very passable cake from a rather large round courgette that has been kicking around for a while. Made it to a carrot cake recipe and added sultanas. Tasty.
[we're having oxtail soup tonight, all but the tail's from the plot/freezer ;D]
Today we had Bangers and mash, with runner beans and gravy.Norfolk or pembroke.lol!!
I grew the spuds, runners and the onions for the gravy, [(not allowed to keep pigs!) ];)
Good thread BTW :)
* Goodlife I didn't know you could eat horseradish leaves !! :o how do you use them?
Goodlife I didn't know you could eat horseradish leaves !! how do you use them?
going to have these spuds for tea, with the asparagus in a stilton & asparagus quiche. Mmmmm
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:o how do you grow pork chops ;D
today we went out for lunch, but had rhubarb crumble (from the allotment) when we got home, with home-made Lemon Geranium (from the front room) Ice-Cream ;)
But how have you managed to get runner beans Jayb . Some of mine are flowering but no beans yet.
Lettuce, Potatoes and a raw pod of peas ;)
We are having lettuce with tea. Also had some lettuce on sandwiches at lunch. At the plot I did eat numerous baby carrots and strawberries! Yesterday made a nice spicey tomato dish with new potatoes, carrots, onions, parsley in. That was followed by jelly with rhubarb, gooseberries and raspberries in.
Poor Davy,
You sound very down, Have you not eaten anything today. Surely you must have something you can nibble on.
Please don't tell us that you have eaten convenience food!!!!!! Not even a bit of Rhubarb or salad stuff. Davy have you had a bad time with the drought?
Poor Davy,
You sound very down, Have you not eaten anything today. Surely you must have something you can nibble on.
Please don't tell us that you have eaten convenience food!!!!!! Not even a bit of Rhubarb or salad stuff. Davy have you had a bad time with the drought?
No i have had a bad time with my teeth........errr no that's not right i cant have a bad time with some thing i no longer have
Had kippers from an allotment (not mine) for lunch!!
How do you make rocket mash
oooohhhh rocket mash sounds good....I love rocket :)
Well I've never heard of cucumber soup, ???
My dogs love our left over cooked runner beans...... ;DThank goodness I have found a couple more mouths for them,I have such a glut of them.
My dogs love our left over cooked runner beans...
.. ;D My dog loves corn on cob... I tested what is her favourite treat by putting few different things on floor and a steamed sweetcorn cob...and she 'dived' on it.. ;DSalmon, mushroom and my onion parcels with my sweetcon and jacket spuds. ;D ;D ;D
Salmon (bush cuttings in swap forum) ;) with
Austurian tree cabbage, Huazontle flower tips and roasted Queensland Blue squash ;D
Goodlife did you get OH to eat any squash ?
Yes.. ;D It was option of either 'get your own food together' or 'eat what is front of you' ;) So lazyness from his behalf won ::)I love raw calabrese. Picked the last few heads today for lunch with a cheese sandwich. I know how to live, me.;D ;D
QuoteI love raw calabrese. Picked the last few heads today for lunch with a cheese sandwich. I know how to live, me.;D ;D
saddad - can't believe you still have tomatoes now, in a greenhouse. I want one more than ever! Is it heated?
What are collards Betty?
I had Celeriac & Stilton soup followed by Leek,Courgette (out of freezer) & spinach Tian (think thats how its spelt?)served with pasta & broccoli in a bousin sauce mmmmm' lovely
What are collards Betty?
I had Celeriac & Stilton soup followed by Leek,Courgette (out of freezer) & spinach Tian (think thats how its spelt?)served with pasta & broccoli in a bousin sauce mmmmm' lovely
Collards are a type of cabbage and grow very easily for me. So easily that I didn't even plant any this year, they just seeded themselves! I'd forgotten how much my husband likes them so I will grow more next year.
As well as the normal... leeks, sprouts, potatoes, cabbage, onion soup, parsnips ... while cleaning out the greenhouse fund a couple of cape gooseberries in their shells... very nice they were too! :)
I just fetched Babington Leeks, chicory, rocket and cress from the greenhouse and rosemary, parsnips and lamb's lettuce from the garden.:D
Had the flu and felt rotten for a couple of weeks, but tonight we will finally have a much delayed dinner with our friends. We will have small individual salad plates with toasted granary bread and pate for starter, followed by roast chicken with carrots, potatoes, roast parsnips with beans from the freezer and garlic from the store, followed by meringue shells with ice cream and morello cherries (from the garden too, but in a kilner jar). Was debating whether to make winter squash soup for starter, but we had so much squash when I didn't feel like going out into the garden and I am yearning after a bit of fresh green stuff.
I just fetched Babington Leeks, chicory, rocket and cress from the greenhouse and rosemary, parsnips and lamb's lettuce from the garden.
Had the flu and felt rotten for a couple of weeks, but tonight we will finally have a much delayed dinner with our friends. We will have small individual salad plates with toasted granary bread and pate for starter, followed by roast chicken with carrots, potatoes, roast parsnips with beans from the freezer and garlic from the store, followed by meringue shells with ice cream and morello cherries (from the garden too, but in a kilner jar). Was debating whether to make winter squash soup for starter, but we had so much squash when I didn't feel like going out into the garden and I am yearning after a bit of fresh green stuff.
How did you bottle the morello cherries Galina? in syrup? It sounds delicious :DI packed washed, recycled, sauce jars with pop-up lids with washed and stoned cherries. Then made a 4 to 1 syrup, ie one mug of sugar, dissolved in 4 mugs of hot water. Filled cherry jars with syrup to half an inch below rim, wiped rim, wiped cleaned lids and closed lids.
Thanks Galina-not that the handful of cherries I got last year lasted that long, nor were they morello, but interesting to see how done.
Anne x
only the potato cakes from spoiled spuds and onions, kept in the freezer for when I need comfort food ;D
Haven't eaten them yet but prepared 2 1/2 lbs of carrots for soup that were in a bed we cleared... mostly a white one and purple haze... so not sure what it will look like! ;D
planted out my heritage yellow mange tout and peas, sowed beetroot, collected seed potatoies for chitting and sowed a second batch of peppers for friends
lettuce, red mizuna and red mustard ;D
sowed in modules in february in the poly, planted out a couple of weeks ago :)lettuce, red mizuna and red mustard ;D
Love red mustard but forgot to sow. Still there was lettuce, spring onion and chard. When did you sow your mustard? Was it overwintered?
First strawberry, well actually four. Yum! and a few rather small peas. Parsley, rhubarb, russian kale and fat hen and tea made from goose grass.
the first New Potatoes of the year, with loads of asparagus ;) :D
manicscousers: I've got a mixed leaf selection, tho' not nearly as ready as yours. Do you like the pepperyness of Red Mustard as I find it way too hot for me and have it cooked instead.. :D
Tempted to move south . . . but only for the growing conditionsha ha !! ;D
Look what I've had.. ;D ;D
I had my first ripe peach of the year... :P
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Chas I had a very excited phone call last night. Well more of a boast ;) really about all that had been eaten from the lotty round the corner from you ;) ;D. She loves filling her trug & taking her treasure home for the family. Little one wanted to take some 'next door' so of she went. A voice shouted 'mum, which next door?' She was told Ruth & Rog. She said ' I'm on the right path then' ;D.
Plums! How lucky you are Goodlife! Mine have a long way to go but boy is the wait worth it!
I have been eating beetroot, roasted with olive oil and balsamic vinegar with melted goats cheese on top and on think toasted farmhouse bread. I must say that a visit to the bathroom the day after the beetroot gave me a hell of a fright until I remembered what I had eaten.
Also been eating cauliflower cheese with my ALR's. Delish
I am knee-deep in jam and pickle this year!
You've got yourself into right pickle then.. ;DConsidering I have been up since 6am, peeved to say nothing as yet, I'm stuck at home waiting for OH to bring the car back and glaring moodily at the pouring rain which suggests I'm never going to get out there today!!!! >:( >:(
Please can I have a cutting from your salmon tree. ;D
Which reminds me... I must get some more allotment trout...
I trade Damsons with a fisherman! :)
So far just a couple of tomatoes as I went round opening the greenhouses for what promises to be a scorcher! :)
The OH had a received in the suggestion box a note requesting proper green cabbage ??? so off he went with 9 of my best, I think it maybe a case of be careful what you wish for ;D
The OH had a received in the suggestion box a note requesting proper green cabbage ??? so off he went with 9 of my best, I think it maybe a case of be careful what you wish for ;D
He is a chef in a school in case you were wondering. ;D ;D
Well not exactly but I have been promised a new winter coat ;) so I think that is fair deal, it's not like I'm short of cabbages...lol :) :)
:-\.....never have grown turnips,...had no idea their green tops could ever be used for anything,....will try them,...just for the tops,..next year,....or do they grow,..this time of year?.. :-\
The cabbages were a huge success ;D they thought it was cool they came from the Allotment and there was nothing left over.. ;D
and seen a couple of nice coats - happy days. ;D ;D
When the new winter coat arrives I'd resist calling it: "My cabbage coat" ;)
You can grow CELERIAC :P :P :P
We are having cavolo nero kale with our dinner tonight, never had kale before so we steamed a few leaves earlier and love it - have tasted nothing like it before. This is also the first proper thing we have harvested from our allotment since taking it on in May, its nice to see all that hard work digging is starting to pay off ;D
Tomorrow we will be eating autumn stonehead cabbage.
Iain
Good for you!! :)
Mrs Roller turned her nose up when I arrived happily home with a bag of freshly cut kale... same variety as yours.
snip...
Runner bean seeds which were surprisingly nice.
Boiled up some gigandes supposed to be drying out for storage, but going mouldy....added olive oil, salt, pepper, parsley and coriander - absolutely lovely. I simply CANNOT increase their numbers fast enough. I intend to put in 20 seedlings next year. Or 30.Are gigandes the same as what we'd call lima beans or some folks call them butter beans? They take a long growing season here.
Also chewed raw a final runner bean and a slightly manky mangetout.
Boiled up some gigandes supposed to be drying out for storage, but going mouldy....added olive oil, salt, pepper, parsley and coriander - absolutely lovely. I simply CANNOT increase their numbers fast enough. I intend to put in 20 seedlings next year. Or 30.Are gigandes the same as what we'd call lima beans or some folks call them butter beans? They take a long growing season here.
Also chewed raw a final runner bean and a slightly manky mangetout.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y253/nonrancher/lima1.jpg) Grew those in 2009 but we ate them green after boiling and buttering.Boiled up some gigandes supposed to be drying out for storage, but going mouldy....added olive oil, salt, pepper, parsley and coriander - absolutely lovely. I simply CANNOT increase their numbers fast enough. I intend to put in 20 seedlings next year. Or 30.Are gigandes the same as what we'd call lima beans or some folks call them butter beans? They take a long growing season here.
Also chewed raw a final runner bean and a slightly manky mangetout.
Butterbeans are lovely! Tell us more, please!!!!
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y253/nonrancher/lima1.jpg) Grew those in 2009 but we ate them green after boiling and buttering.Boiled up some gigandes supposed to be drying out for storage, but going mouldy....added olive oil, salt, pepper, parsley and coriander - absolutely lovely. I simply CANNOT increase their numbers fast enough. I intend to put in 20 seedlings next year. Or 30.Are gigandes the same as what we'd call lima beans or some folks call them butter beans? They take a long growing season here.
Also chewed raw a final runner bean and a slightly manky mangetout.
Butterbeans are lovely! Tell us more, please!!!!
What an awesome thread!Tell my about Mizuna!
Swiss Chard, Turnip leaf, Cabbage leaf, various mixed leaf salad, a round lettuce, Mizuna, a few Tsoi sim flowers, Thyme, Rosemary, Continental Parsley, Curly Parsley and some mixed micro herbs/salad (first try, as seen on HFW River Cottage, not sure as it just seems like some cress, but tasty, maybe a waste of seeds?) oh, and some Rocket.
This was lunch and dinner, and quite a surprising haul for November, I think lucky weather here :) Makes it all worthwhile!
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/orientalgreens.html
Further down the page... Though I fancy a few of the others too x
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/orientalgreens.htmlThanks, Ruth, I'll give it a try- especially like that it is both heat and cold tolerant. That's a real plus, besides the appearance.
Further down the page... Though I fancy a few of the others too x
Dug some of my Christmas spuds for Sunday lunch(Bootiful) along with parsnips and brussells.
Celery soup... and (beef) and aubergine curry... :)
Half a swede left from xmas with mash sausage and onion gravy :P
Home-made pasties - not a spot of meat - butternut squash, spinach, garlic and cheddar cheese.
Absolutely delicious hot or cold. :)
My 7 month old has been enjoying our last few winter squash over the last couple of weeks. It's great to be able to wean her with something home grown ;D
Dorset Apple Cake.. :)
Eat?
That's something I really must remember to make time for a bit more often. ::)
Rhubarb, more PSB more asparagus... :)
Still having potatoes from store... and PSB but the first real cut of asparagus... :)
Had the first broccoli I've ever grown on Wednesday;
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Norty Ninnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyys ;) :P
Ate my first homegrown strawberries today. They were huge, and absolutely gorgeous. :P Also cooked our first courgettes - a green and a yellow. Got a great buzz out of that since it's my first time growing them. I have a double-barreled yellow about to flower. The granddaughter's gonna get that in her baby food. ;)
Raspberries, blackcurrants, broadbeans, Lady Chrystal, parsley, mangetout, calabrese
3 dwarf beans, courgettes. one sungold tomato, it might be the last, total this year 6.
Tonight's supper was:
A nice glass of white wine with absolutely fresh peas, eaten raw from the shell.
A nice glass of red wine with absolutely fresh broad beans, cooked to a turn, with a little butter and hunks of home-made rye bread.
Simple and superb.
Sounds good Ninny.
If you've got a motorbike too your welcome this way with your frying pan anytime. ;) ;D
To celebrate an English winner of a French race I chose a meal in Italo-scottish style therefore accompanying the bottle of Prosecco was Un salade de Glaswege.... ie a bottle of italian fizz plus cheesy chips with some cut adn come-again salad.......
courgettes there growing like mad
5 lbs of Courgette sauce for pasta Tasty as hell and ready to freeze !Quote
Ok theplotthickens. . .
wot, no recipe??
.......yet more courgettes!
:help:
Were the bottom ones hot lemon? I grew that this year and love the flavour.Yes..they are and there is still lot of more to deal with..they always perfom well.
Sheppard's pie with my pots onions courgettes as Ive got lots few herbs from my herb garden behind the greenhouse ( mush, garlic not mine) mountain of runner beans and rhubarb crumble ;D.....
And all for me as the Mrs and kids are on hols..... was meant to be working but been laid of :(
After a very quick and brief dash to the plot....
Leeks. :love10:'em
Sorrel - made a lovely quiche. I don't like sorrel much but as a quiche it is fabulous. Plus of course kale tops for Mike, and proper purple sprouting for the rest of us.
PS for the quiche recipe see the recipe thread! :wave:
meant to say,enjoyed your blog antipodes,the piccies of your veggie efforts are great.
your quiche sounds interesting cant recall making a crustless,bet that's tasty....Jude would like it too as she cant tolerate pastry in any quantity as it gives her horrid indigestion.
Gazza