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This little adventure started when Dan’s cousin Maura and her lovely Mum, Auntie Sheila, gave us a large and fully ripened marrow (Cucurbita pepo) when we visited at Christmas 2009. Most marrows seen on sale in the UK are bright green and look like supersized courgettes, but if you let the marrow reach a good [...]
Our very small back garden was relatively neglected for the first nine years we lived here… there always seemed to be something more pressing to spend the money on, like new floorboards, or kitchen cupboards, but late in 2008 we finally agreed on what we wanted and got the builders in. We then had the [...]
The thing that has surprised me most with this year’s first steps in growing vegetables has been just how many beans you get from a few plants tucked in amongst the flowers. First to crop were the dwarf beans, then the runner beans kicked in (and have been amazingly productive, even climbing over the fence [...]
Having got the garden produce under control for the moment, I still had a hankering to make more things for the store cupboard. On a quick trip to my local supermarket, I found large unripe mangoes on sale at a bargain price, so picked up a box full. I left them near the kitchen window [...]
Aubergine Chutney:
The Turks have a proper respect for the aubergine, and have probably made more use of it in their cooking than any other culture. A food writer once told a joke about a visitor to Istanbul who, at the end of a veritable feast, was asked if he wanted anything else; ‘A glass of [...]
Runner Bean Mustard Pickle:
It’s odd how sometimes mentioning something, even to dismiss it, can spark a smouldering interest which you find yourself returning to later; and having sorted out my french bean surplus without resorting to the ‘piccalilli’ solution, I still needed to do something with my continuing bumper crop of runner beans. The [...]
I decided to make a spicier version of my original Yellow Tomato chutney, as in addition to a last flush of the ‘Sun Baby’ or ‘Sun Belle’ tomatoes I’d used from our garden earlier this year, we also had a sudden rush of a heritage tomato variety called ‘Yellow Peach’. If you see this variety [...]
Late in the autumn, I had some dark red plums that were just asking to be made into something, and I also needed to sort out a couple of kitchen cupboards and use up some of the things I found there, to make space ahead of Christmas. I realised I wasn’t going to eat all [...]
Just after Christmas is hardly the time to be making chutney with anything from your garden (unless someone has invented Brussels Sprout chutney, there may be an opening there!), but late in the season I did make a batch of Runner Bean & Pepper Relish, using up some of our late runner bean harvest and [...]
