Month: July 2010
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Sage glut!
The next glut after soft fruit is going to be sage. I have been talking about sage before, and provided a couple of recipes, not least my favourite one: sage focaccia (which I have just updated with the latest post-breadmaking course improvements). I have found you can fry sage leaves in a batter to be used as starters (recipe…
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Chillies flowering!
Finally the time has come when my chillies have put out the first bloom (which I read I should pluck out but have not dared yet). They are everywhere in the greenhouse, under cover outside, on the windowsill at home: will I manage to be self-sufficient? In the meantime, salad and courgettes are filling my…
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More preserving
Yesterday I spent the day at home, preserving some more of the glut of soft fruits. I tried three recipes which I adapted a little (see below). I also tied up the garlic and hung it in the kitchen and plan to do the same with onions. Tonight I will make a bit more pesto…
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Huge disappointment…
… as my precious rhododendron turns out to be after all a weed – how could I fall for it? My horticulture text says some plants look different in their juvenile form from their mature one… the thing is that a juvenile plant would not flower and my seedlings has blossomed, shouting weed, weed! Hope…
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Grow-my-own changing the way I cook
I cook every meal. I like big portions, but I have little time and patience, so what I usually do is to cook a quick, big pasta, or pizza or main course and veg (recently I have also started cooking more than I need for the meal, so that I can take it to the office…
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Preserving
aJuly is the time of endless bounty of soft fruits. This year it was raspberry first, followed by gooseberry and redcurrant is just coming now. Pound after pound of raspberry for dessert were getting a bit too much, so I have frozen some for later on (trick to keep them whole I discovered is to…
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The warmest, sunniest harvest day ever
It is the first time since I have had the allotment that I can pick onions and garlic and leave them in the sun to dry. The crop is not massive, so it’s unlikely I will be self-sufficient in garlic as I had planned. I must have left it too long in the ground, as the…
About Me
M.Paola Andreoni
I got the first allotment in 2007 (in the UK) and started growing my own food for the first time. Learning as I went along was not enough, so I studied some horticulture. I am striving to abide by organic principles. Brexit gave me a new life in the Netherlands, and two new plots by a nature reserve.
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