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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #420 on: May 25, 2010, 10:19:16 »
Rhubarb tiramisu!!!
make a rhubarb compote, nice and sweet. instead of coffee, soak the biscuits in apple juice with a splash of brandy. I guess you could use cider...?
Then make the usual marscapone cream and layer: biscuits, rhubarb compote, cream etc etc.  It went in the blink of an eye.
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #421 on: May 25, 2010, 10:28:01 »
Radishes. Lovely and fresh and then POW that peppery taste. Brilliant.
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #422 on: May 26, 2010, 22:27:38 »
My first peas...few Early Alaskan and Golden Sweet mangetout... ;D ;D

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #423 on: May 26, 2010, 23:13:40 »
I've got the first buds on my rather pigeon-pecked Hatif D'Annonay, but no pods on anything yet. I've only got a few of those so I won't be eating more than the one pod.

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #424 on: May 31, 2010, 13:55:45 »
Found some Leeks in the back of the freezer and made some thingy-a-Leekie soup.

I've only some pickled Beetroot remaining from last year  :'( Roll on July.

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #425 on: June 01, 2010, 13:00:59 »
Yesterday (BHM) we got the first of our broad beans (from the few that survived the snow) and they were yummy. Still (hopefully) loads to come from the replacement sowing.

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #426 on: June 01, 2010, 14:08:58 »
A baby cut and come again lettuce with a handful of rocket, landcress and chives, and s handful of strawberries. Last night we had teh first potatoes! They were absolutely divine!
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #427 on: June 01, 2010, 14:18:41 »
A few mangetout, a few strawberries.  Before shops appeared this must have been a very lean time of year.  Rocket lettuce and other greens.  A spring green plant OH said it was nice and sweet. 


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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #428 on: June 01, 2010, 14:23:37 »
Asparagus,freshly dug new potatoes and newly laid eggs from a lottie mates hens.
Does life get any better? :)
Well perhaps if the first strawbwerries hadn't been nibbled by slugs :(
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #429 on: June 02, 2010, 22:39:27 »
Radish ( they are so different from shop bought- much more peppery) and lettuce in a salad with soft boiled eggs from the chickens. Tomatoes from freezer used in main meal. Mange tout and courgette.
Also ready but not used tonight - cucumber (just finishing off shop bought one before going onto home grown) Broad beans are now ready to use and have some strawberries but will pick tomorrow night.

I am in the south so some things may be ready earlier than for those people further north

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #430 on: June 03, 2010, 00:08:56 »
The last of the toms from the freezer in the spag bol. I have 1 strawberry nearly ready....just a day or two more....
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #431 on: June 03, 2010, 07:27:20 »
garlic and tomatoes in the lasagne, with asparagus
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #432 on: June 03, 2010, 07:37:37 »
Strawberries and they were lovely.xx

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #433 on: June 03, 2010, 07:48:31 »
Our produce so far -
6 strawberrys - yummy nice and sweet.
10 mange toute - love the fresh taste.
Rhubarb - for the crumble
and some fresh hen eggs from a friends lotty

Not bad Ist proper produce!

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #434 on: June 03, 2010, 07:52:14 »
Lunchtime salad: Spring sown lettuce (Ice Queen) - nice and crisp, Chives,Dill,
Coriander.

Evening stir fry:
Immature courgettes (cut them off before they fell off as my 6 plants all produced female flowers first)
Mushrooms - courtesy of 'spent' mushroom compost dug into polytunnel beds earlier in the year.
Shallots from last autumn.

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #435 on: June 03, 2010, 08:23:25 »
re; what will I eat today...
all crop has been inspected last night..and I can tell that I will be eating my first courgette of the year today...with some shallots, and mangetout, radish, cabbage, garlic greens..hmm..sounds like stir fry coming up.... ;D

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #436 on: June 03, 2010, 08:34:46 »
Today I will be having red mustard leaves, pea shoots, bronzed fennel, chives, sorrel & a few other snippets of herbs to make a fragrant salad ;D
It will be a few more weeks before my main crops start to be ready for harvesting.....I can hardly wait ;)

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #437 on: June 04, 2010, 04:51:14 »
Not from my personal lottie , but on the soft fruit hedge that is part of our communal area I ate blackcurrants today XX Jeannine
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #438 on: June 04, 2010, 06:06:46 »
About a third of a Durham early cabbage and the same of a cauliflower (plants bought at GH, can't remember variety)... I'd all but given up on the caulis, several died over winter, at least one bolted.... a week ago the remaining plants looked like spring greens, then suddenly there were four heads..... Ate them raw with some italian salad dressing....

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #439 on: June 04, 2010, 08:20:14 »
Purple sprouting broccoli and Tuscan kale - strange, but true.  They just keep on going this year.......

 

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