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Bowl of pesto
Food & Drink, Recipe, Savoury

Garden glut – we made fresh pesto

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Everyone has one of those lists that they want to tick off, you know the ones I mean, the ones where you list all the things you want to do before you’re 30, 40, 50 etc.  So when the garden gave me a massive glut of basil, it was a […]

Jars of pickled gherkins
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Growing and pickling your own gherkins

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We decided that as one of our experiments this year, we’d grow our own gherkins for pickling. Specifically cornichon de paris which I really enjoy on a sandwich. A bit of research on the interweb made it all sound so simple and there were lots of recipes to choose from for […]

jar of dried of chillies
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Drying your own chillies

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Much like beetroot and tomatoes, when you grow your own chillies you get an awful lot of the little blighters and can’t always use them up so the solution is to dry them, that way you have loads of dried chilli flakes to use at will and they last. I […]

Food & Drink, Recipe, Savoury

Making tomato relish

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We eat a lot of relishes, chutneys and pickles, but it’s not something we’ve ever tried to make so today I decided I’d have a bit of a look around the internet to see what was involved with the aim of using up the last of the marmande tomatoes from […]