The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers
Posted in Cooking on Oct 28th, 2011
This was my first attempt at Pear Jam. Its a cobbled together version of the recipe I do for all my jams. I used two pound of pears which had been peeled, cored and cut up into chunks; I large lemon; one pound of preserving sugar and some water. I put the pears into a pan [...]
Posted in Cooking on Nov 29th, 2010
Today I made one of my favourite cake recipes. Its a variation on a classic Madeira Cake. All it is is one part soft butter, one part sugar and one part self raising flour and the batter can be adapted to the size of your baking tins. I use a smallish loaf tin and the following recipe:- 150gms [...]
Posted in Cooking on Nov 17th, 2010
We have loads of jobs to do in the garden but rain has stopped play today. We have had torrential rain since the early hours of the morning so couldnt carry on outside. We have come indoors and I am making Butternut Squash Soup. One medium sized Butternut Squash One small onion One potato One/Two [...]
Posted in Allotments on Sep 13th, 2010
We had the usual glut of courgettes this year and I have used some of them in this recipe, given to me by Marie, my Yoga teacher. 3 table spoons of olive oil 2 medium Courgettes thickly sliced 3 large flat mushrooms sliced 4 large ripe tomatoes sliced 2 teaspoons of dried Oregano 3oz grated cheese Pre-heat [...]
Posted in Allotments, Cooking on Aug 19th, 2009
Made my first ever pumpkin pies this morning using just a quarter of a largish pumpkin. I did a search for a recipe as I had no idea what went into it apart from pumpkin and pastry. I used a block of frozen shortcrust pastry and lined two tart dishes. I pureed the pumpkin and [...]
Posted in Allotments, Cooking on Jul 28th, 2009
Last night we went to the plots and while Rob laid a wood chip path in the fruit tunnel I picked the rest of the fruit. The gooseberries are past their best now really. We have already picked and frozen a lot of the red so I decided to pick some green ones and make [...]
Posted in Allotments on Oct 9th, 2008
I hadn’t made made soup since I was at school. Whenever we wanted soup we bought a tin from the supermarket. However as we had rather a lot of tomatoes and they were ending up being thrown to the chickens I had a look how to make it. Simple. Why hadn’t I done it before? [...]
