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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.

Radishes. Lovely and fresh and then POW that peppery taste. Brilliant.

My first peas...few Early Alaskan and Golden Sweet mangetout... ;D ;D

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.

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.

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.

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!

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. 

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 :(

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

The last of the toms from the freezer in the spag bol. I have 1 strawberry nearly ready....just a day or two more....

garlic and tomatoes in the lasagne, with asparagus

Strawberries and they were lovely.xx

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!

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.

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

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 ;)

Not from my personal lottie , but on the soft fruit hedge that is part of our communal area I ate blackcurrants today XX Jeannine

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....

chrisc

Purple sprouting broccoli and Tuscan kale - strange, but true.  They just keep on going this year.......