Posted in Fruit, Harvesting, Recipes, Vegetables, tagged Fruit, onions, plums, preserves, Squash on 7 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Take plums, not too ripe:
A big bendy squash (this one’s a Tromba di Albenga):
Small onions, stunted by the shade of a cherry tree:
A selection of spices (looking disproportionately large) and some muslin or cheesecloth:
Now, chop up the fruit and vegetables, put all the ingredients into a pan and — chutney!
This excursion into the world of [...]
Posted in Fruit, Harvesting, tagged berries, Fruit on 31 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A pound of gooseberries, picked yesterday. I was determined to beat the pigeons to them this year.
Posted in Courgettes, Fruit, Harvesting, The plot, tagged apples, chillis, Courgettes, Fruit, loganberries, plums, potatoes, Tomatoes on 27 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
So much of this year’s fruit crop has disappeared in the interval between it being almost ripe and my next visit to the plot that I decided to act promptly today. I brought all of the Victoria plums home, a few loganberries (which could have done with another day or two) and a couple of [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Fruit, Harvesting, Vegetables, tagged berries, Courgettes, Fruit, potatoes on 17 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last weekend I dug up the first Charlotte potatoes. The picture doesn’t show it, but their flesh is more yellow than shop-bought Charlottes and they have an entirely different texture, making for a heftier mouthful than I expected. They are delicious. Here are some, with spring onions and herbs alongside:
The courgettes are late this year. [...]
Posted in Fruit, Harvesting, tagged Fruit, redcurrants, white currants on 26 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
Just about the entire crop of jewel-like white currants, and a few redcurrants.
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