Tag: recipes
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Another year draws to an end
This has been a busy year. In the plot, I have grown a few new crops: oca, achocha, shark fin melon, salsify, scorzonera. And the year I tried seaweed meal as a soil conditioner and cardboard mulch in autumn. The year I planted more fruit bushes because I think perennials are much less effort and…
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Food price, at what cost?
wondering about increasing food prices, why people eat crappy food thinking it’s ok for them, and figuring out how much it cost me to have an organic meal last night (with recipe) The British, as portrayed in the media, are facing food poverty, or “nutrition recession” as the Guardian put it. Now, this is the…
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The how and whys of making yogurt
I should be writing about crop rotation, so why I’m posting on making yogurt instead? It is a truth universally acknowledged that growing your own affects the way you cook and eat. In my case, it has affected the way I think more broadly, for example about reuse and recycle. On the plot I reuse…
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Have you ever cooked artichokes?
After 4 years of toiling on the artichoke patch, this first week of summer yielded the first three edible ones: pride and joy! I love artichokes, and it is quite difficult to find them here in the UK… a few years ago, when staying at Bangors Organic in Cornwall, Gill served them for dinner: whole, just steamed…
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What can you do with lemon balm? And other plants
There are plants that I introduced once on the plot and now grow largely unasked. Their weedy behaviour means they multiply and tend happily to survive slug attack. They are usually loved by pollinators. It’s a pity to weed them out, given their success, so I have decided to find a use for them. I…
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Another year of elderberries
I have not written for a while: gardening is repetitive, so I sort of ran out of topics, and I am trying to figure out how to make my pages interesting in the little time I have. Also, I am not happy with pictures from my new camera, so my old blog format does not…
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Jerusalem artichokes
I am still enjoying my own Jerusalem artichokes, which I stored in the unused dishwasher and found like this: quite a spectacular sight. Having some leftovers after a big roast (oil, salt & pepper), I decided to improvise a curry (Italian style): I stirfried a small onion, with some chilli flakes, turmeric and curry powder.…
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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