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The veg patch has always been full of surprises!

Food by LoisMay 9, 2018

Hough… How? Huff? Hocht?

Names, naming and words by LoisMarch 6, 2013September 11, 2018

A traditional recipe

Food by LoisFebruary 21, 2013January 4, 2019

Food by LoisNovember 4, 2012November 4, 2012

Too much cauli? It has to be piccalilli!

I bought a huge cauliflower and made some rather gorgeous soup… however as Bari doesn’t like cauliflower, I was left with half a cauli the size of a football. The obvious answer to this cauli-glut was to make it into piccalilli… which I did. I took a lovely picture of all the vegetables cut up and soaking in brine, cauliflower, cucumber, marrow, […]

Food by LoisOctober 27, 2012

Chutney, lots of chutney!

We did manage to harvest a few red tomatoes, and they were sweet and lovely, but most of the vines were heavy with tomatoes which didn’t ripen… so green tomato chutney! As usual with a new recipe I followed it exactly, but there seemed a heck of a lot of liquid, and it was still very fluid after the […]

Food by LoisJuly 8, 2012June 6, 2013

How does my garden grow?

We were so thrilled with how well our garden did last year; our raised beds were full of lovely vegetables, our apple trees were laden with almost too much fruit, and the japonica was equally full of lovely quinces. We were full of optimism and anticipation for this year’s harvest… there was a very warm spell in February, […]