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have not eaten them yet, but got 6 eggs today off my new chickens(2days in my coop).

Roast breast of lamb (from Tesco) with Arran Victory roasties, roasted golden nugget squash, runner beans, carrot, swede and cabbage from the plot and homemade redcurrant jelly. Followed by raspberries, also from the plot. Life is good!

Mutton chops from a friend's sheep, braised in cider with shallots and garlic and tomatoes and apples and leeks; mashed potatoes full of herbs, sweetcorn, cabbage in garlic white sauce, yellow courgettes, broad beans frozen earlier; blackberry and apple pie with bought cream (miss my cow). The pastry (frozen chunk left over from an earlier baking) was mysteriously laced with chilli powder.

Nightmare getting everything ready at once for five people, after a morning on allotment.

Did a roast chicken dinner for family, with 'Cream Delight' carrots (which they thought were parsnips because of the colour!), potatoes etc.

Used some of my toms and green peppers, shallots and garlic to do a risotto for me with smoked mackerel....yum! ;D

Just had some boilys, french beans and sweetcorn with my pork chop, I also took a sweetcorn to work with my sarnies.   :P     ;D ;D ;D

Had some sweetcorn variety from Franchi.  Lovely red leaves.  Cobs have very slim centres so the corns do not look ready but they are lovely.

Purple dwarf beans just started producing followed some blown lettuce.  Plus the usual suspects.

Just used the outside stems and some of the leaves from our celery with baby carrots and our onions to make celery soup for tomorrow, gorgeous  ;D
carrots, spuds, onions, squash, parsnips and runner beans out of the pods as they had gone too big while we were way, all to make stew, only use 8ozs steak for 4-6 portions  ;D

It was roast lamb (from Tescos), roast potaotes,'cara' carrots 'Chantenay', 'White lady' runner beans, Roast beet root 'boltardy', Greyhound cabbage and spinach. Had so many different veg had to try them all. Really tasty :) :)

Cabbage, spuds and onions from plot, sausages from a pig.

Raspberries today all i had time to pick! I only managed one bush and I have a full container from that.

My jacket Kestrels and shallots with steak and chesnut mushrooms.    ;D ;D ;D

Parsnips Carrots onions  tomatoes cooked in the slow cooker with some bought celery(cos we can't grow it) and beef with horseradish and chive suet dumplings

We will have cara pots roasted, baby parsnips and butternut squash and marrow roasted,with chicken then strawberries and raspberries for pud  ;D

slow roasted lamb shanks in red wine, garlic and mint gravy, our potatoes, calabrese, cabbage and parsnips, for afters, our conference pears stewed with cinnamon and ginger with a light lemon sponge on top , then we will have to sleep it off  ;D

Roasted pink fir apples, long red florence onions and hunter butternut, plus a defrosted curry containing homegrown onions, broadies and courgettes

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amongst other things a rather delicious tomato and Basil soup...  ;D

Well, yesterday for family Sunday lunch (9 persons) we had roasted lamb (not mine) with roasted Desiree, parsnips and crooknecks along with possibly the last of the Cosse Violette and a massive vat of Cavallo Nero.

I was most impressed with myself  ::)  I'm only one and a half seasons into this growing lark.

Actually, last night, roast pork (from Morrisons) and apple sauce from allotment, and then roast squash, pots, cabbage, runner beans and about 10 small sprouts (all from the allotment).  Very nice.  Tonight, cold pork, toms, lettuce (from allotment) and hopefully squash soup which is cooking now if it tastes OK.  Recipe from here so should be good.  ;D ;D ;D

pea and ham soup made with someone else's gammon  ;D

i dug over 1 of the beds and planted my garlic . we also finished building a bin to hold a couple of tons of manure and filled it.  ;D a good day . then came home and had a well deserved courgette soup and made tomato and chili chutney