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Roast celeriac, parsnips, spuds and elephant garlic on a yorkshire with carrots, broad beans and sprouts smothered in an onion, red wine and dijon mustard gravy.... I grew all the veg in that lot....

You can grow CELERIAC :P :P :P

The first batch of lovely smooth delicious silky velvety jerusalum arthichoke soup   :P

Roasted Red Desiree pots (from the sacks), steamed black Tuscany kale (freshly picked), steamed Scarlet Emperor runner beans (from the freezer), home made mint sauce (picked today (it had a second growth spurt this autumn)) with roast lamb and shop bought peas (already eaten all of the plot grown ones, even the frozen ones too  :()

Ninnycrops

Made a coleslaw from carrots and onions grown on the plot. Unfortunately I had to buy the cabbage.

Duke

For lunch, a thick soup made with chicken stock, foraged sweet chestnuts, own onions, parsnips and leeks, with a scrap of chili.

Just made chicken and leek soup, 18 portions for £5.00 and that was for the chicken wings  ;D
the rest was garlic, leeks, carrots that have started to go bendy and a couple of butternut squashes that have marks on them , lovely  ;D

Mash and carrots from the lottie with lamb steaks.  ;D

Not eaten them yet but shelled out five freezer trays of beans ... Barlotti, runners, trail of tears, top of the pole... and others ... just going out to see if there are anymore tomatoes!  :)

The usual... potatoes, beetroot and carrot.

Picked a pile of kale Saturday - looking forward to trying it - not grown it before.

Not to be eaten but from the plot: 90 good sized Scarlet Bedder wallflowers. 

Quote from: pumpkinlover on October 22, 2011, 22:26:34
You can grow CELERIAC :P :P :P

Yeah... it's getting a bit bolty, I might have put it in a bit too early, but the secret is put it on the autowatering that feeds the greenhouse so it gets a watering every day. Mines got microbore leaky pipe all through the bed and it gets 90 minutes a day.... or did until last week....

chrisc

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

Quote from: banksy on November 01, 2011, 15:49:05
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.

I'm hoping it'll be cooked tomorrow for dinner. If not I'm cooking dinner on Saturday (not before as I'm cooking for my parents as usual) and we'll try it then for the first time.  ;)

(Just realised I picked it last Saturday!! It's still in the larder fridge - hopefully fresh as a daisy newly picked kale)

Quote from: Aden Roller on November 04, 2011, 02:46:53
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...

Thanks!

We are totally converted to the kale, its delicious once I have blasted the leaves to get rid of the blasted whitefly  >:(

Will be off to pick more tomorrow.  ;D


Iain

Tesco had sea bream half price.  So I had half of one with sprouts, PSB, calebrese, carrots and parsley sauce with so much parsley it was more of less green.  And a few strawberries.  Cheap gourmet meal.  Though I tend to splat the food onto the plate rather than arrange in prissy little swirls.

Runner bean seeds which were surprisingly nice.

Mrs lottiman knocked up a big batch of bubble n squeak some for tea and some for the freezer.OK not all the veg was mine as we had a few disasters this year :'( but it was very scrummy! ;D

Tomatoes,sweet peppers,homemade bread toasted for lunch, potatoes carrots and beetroot and the last of the Brie for tea.. Followed by half of the last home grown pear [Concorde]. Plus apple[sans pareil I think] on meusli at breakfast. :) Must get to the sprouts. sowed them too early and they're getting away from me.Sod the whitefly enjoying the mild weather. :(

Leaf beet, This really is a lovely vegtable, treat like spinach but it is milder, full of Iron. Beetroot, cabbage, potatoes had to abandon the late carrots, full of carrot root fly. The roast lamb was delicious and I covered the whole lot with delicious gravy made with the juices of the lamb.

Quote from: Poolcue on November 04, 2011, 19:43:54
Runner bean seeds which were surprisingly nice.

I like these too. "White Lady" is lovely!