Rhubarb fool When you have a five-foot wide rhubarb clump throwing out big thick stems every day with leaves you could lose your kids under, you start to get a bit obsessive about rhubarb recipes. I have recipes for rhubarb cake, rhubarb chutney, rhubarb crumble biscuits (and muffins) and even fig and rhubarb marmalade, a [...]
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Recipe of the month: April
Posted in Recipe of the month, tagged cooking, purple sprouting broccoli on April 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
PSB Pasta Quite a simple recipe, this one, but a favourite when we haven’t had time to do the shopping and have to fall back on whatever’s in the veg garden plus what we can find in the store cupboard. The purple sprouting broccoli makes a nice crunch contrast with the pasta, and it’s all on the plate within half [...]
Recipe of the month: March
Posted in Recipe of the month, tagged baby leaf salads, cooking, leeks on March 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Leek and Bacon Pasta Bake This will sound immodest, but I’m famed for my leek and bacon pasta bake. I cobbled it together one evening when I was in a hurry and hadn’t had enough time to do the shopping, raiding the fridge and adding leeks and salad from the garden. It’s been a firm [...]
Recipe of the month: December
Posted in Recipe of the month, tagged beetroot, pickling, preserving crops on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pickled beetroot Beetroot is so obliging. I have a row growing somewhere most of the time, and just leave it in the ground till I need it. Unfortunately, in my family, I’m the only one who likes it unpickled. So, with regret, I gave up trying to persuade husband/small people to enjoy roast beetroot: instead I came up with [...]
Recipe of the month: November
Posted in Recipe of the month, tagged cooking, pumpkins on November 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Pumpkin and ginger bread Another cake recipe – but then one can never have too much cake in one’s life, I find. This is a great way to use up all that pumpkin flesh you scooped out to make your Hallowe’en lantern: the pumpkin gives the bread a lovely moist texture and a natural sweetness, [...]
Recipe of the month: October
Posted in Harvesting, Recipe of the month, tagged cooking, courgettes, gluts, preserving crops on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Courgette cake When you’ve eaten courgettes every day for months, your friends have stopped inviting you round in case you give them yet another jar of chutney, and your freezer is groaning under the weight of courgette soup…. it’s time to celebrate by baking courgette cake, the moistest, stickiest, most melt-in-the-mouth, most undeniably green* cake you will ever eat. 200g butter [...]
Recipe of the month: September
Posted in Recipe of the month, tagged cooking, cucumbers, gluts on September 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Cucumber relish All right, yes, I know, it looks a bit bilious. But you’ll just have to take my word for it – it tastes absolutely scrummy, with just the right amount of crunch. If you want it a little less yellow and a little more green, cut down on the turmeric (or cut it out [...]
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