Hurrah for Winter ~ A Croziflette
OK as I’m in the French Alps I NEED Alpine food. It’s the law! I’m talking full on cheesy winter warming food here my friends. The sort of food that stokes and fuels you for cold winter days when...
View ArticleCannellini Beans ~ How to grow, store and cook shelling beans (revisited)
I couldn’t go away on my holidays and not take a seed catalogue or two for light reading could I? And it’s not like I have ENOUGH seeds already, it’s just that you never know what else I might fancy …...
View ArticlePoor man’s asparagus
Poor man’s asparagus – that’s what the French used to think about Leeks. Well peurph, bish and tosh to the French! Whether leeks are a poor man’s asparagus or not and leaving the French out of the...
View Articlewhen the greenhouse is trashed make soup
When the trashed greenhouse is waiting for you to get your ACT together, the weather is foul and you just don’t fancy dragging yourself out and up the hill to the allotment I’ve found time spent in...
View ArticleA Pie For All Seasons
Make the pastry and choose the filling. There are days when I need simple and easy, there are days when I need inspiration and there are days when the chard and spinach growing on the allotment is on...
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