I am very pleased to share this post today. I have been so scared about making preserves but when I brought in a kilo of green tomatoes after tidying the garden I just knew I had to find a good use for them. To be honest I had heard about green tomato chutney but never actually tasted it. But I thought it was probably worth a gamble so I gave [...]
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This one pepper has been looking quite ripe for a while now. I have been unsure how long to leave it on the plant once it has taken its full colour. Do peppers increase in size after getting their colour? In the end I left it a couple of weeks looking like this before finally succumbing, cutting it off and serving it in a salad. Tasty! Emma
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This recipe was included in the My Kitchen Addiction Kitchen Bootcamp Roundup for April 2012. I consider baked ham my trademark meal so you are very privileged that I am going to share it with you here! In fact it is not difficult but it does require some time to cook. Adam and I like to do a roast almost every weekend because it usually works out as quite good [...]
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Ok this is a bit tongue in cheek but this really happened last weekend. We get our groceries delivered every two weeks, usually on a Saturday afternoon or evening. Needless to say, by the second week fresh supplies are running low. Well this time we were staring at what looked like an empty kitchen with growling tummies. Out of desperation I started to collect anything edible I could find; the [...]
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It is nettle season again so I thought I would share this nettle foraging and recipe with you. We actually made this a year ago and I never got around to posting it at the time. Woops! Nettles have a few uses for gardeners but the most famous legend about nettles is that they are edible. I remember being told this as a child. The natural question would be “but [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I sneakily planted some marigold seeds in the garden. I didn’t mention it because I wasn’t sure if they would sprout so I didn’t want to get mine, or Adam’s, hopes up! Well, it looks like they have decided to sprout! I was so pleased to see these little shoots come up about a week ago but it has been raining ever since, so I [...]
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This tomato soup is incredibly easy to make from the larder. The ingredients are likely things most people keep in stock and it cooks in 20 minutes. Perfect! Add a chopped onion to a pot and soften in oil for a few minutes over a medium heat. If you like your soup garlicky you can also add a clove or two of minced garlic after a few of minutes. I [...]
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As promised, here is my mini quiche recipe. This recipe has come about because we were given two muffin tins for Christmas; a 12 hole tin and a 6 hole tin. I like muffins but I thought we must be able to make some other things in the tins as well, Adam had the idea to try and make mini quiches and they have been a success. First off, I [...]
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Look at this cute little bento lunch! This year we have been really good about making all our own lunches for work. It is a great way to save some money and time every day (I don’t want to spend my whole lunch break standing in a queue for a sandwich). The downside of taking your own lunch is that it can get boring sometimes. So I have been trying [...]
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Like so many people I am a bit sceptical about commercial holidays like St. Valentine’s Day. I don’t like being coerced into acknowledging my love but I also feel slightly cheated if I don’t get anything. Ah, so much pressure! So I decided that this recipe would be a happy compromise- something easy which I already happily make as a special treat for the man in my life, with a [...]
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