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Pickling spices, cucumbers and nostalgia
As a small child I spent many weekends staying with my grandmother and some of my earliest memories are helping her to bottle fruit and vegetables at the end of the summer, ready for the winter. The...
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Squash, leek and marscapone risotto
Uchiki Kuri Squash I’ve been slightly frazzled today, although my father, who was a farmer all his working life, would laugh at the idea that sitting in front of a computer for ten hours could be...
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The trouble with brussel sprouts
I’m a big fan of the brussel sprout, but in the last few weeks my love of them has been sorely tested. When I planted them back in the spring they grew magnificently and healthily. I staked them...
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Very Easy Christmas Cake
Stir up Sunday came and went at the end of November, I thought about making a Christmas cake, but I couldn’t really face it. In the past when I’ve made a proper dried fruit Christmas cake my...
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Banana, Apple, Almond and Polenta cake
The cake I made so the Christmas cake actually made it to Christmas unmolested. So this is the cake I made to stop the kids from eating the Christmas cake before it even cooled enough to come out of...
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A Happy New Gardening Year
Christmas is now offically over... It’s January the 6th, Christmas is over, the decorations are down and all that’s left is to hoover up the pine needles – which I’ll probably still be finding under...
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First harvest of 2012
As soon as I saw the first signs of purple on my Purple Sprouting Broccoli earlier in the week I knew that I wouldn’t be able to resist harvesting it for long. I should probably call myself The...
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Brussel Sprout soup
I was possibly over enthusiastic when I planted out 12 brussel sprout plants last year. I love sprouts, but each stalk has a surprisingly large number of sprouts on it, so I’ve still got a lot left....
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Spring at last
Peas sprouting A very brief post with no recipes because I’ve been snowed under at work. But so excited that things are starting to grow again. Purple sprouting broccoli delicious – had some in a...
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In praise of salsify and sunshine
After a month in which I was beginning to think that I might never get out into the garden again, let alone do any gardening, and that the only option was to build an ark, the sun is finally out....
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