Category: Spring

  • Puntarelle – recipes and how to grow

    Puntarelle are glorious to eat. This type of chicory is a versatile vegetable which you can eat raw or cooked. It’s also a doddle to grow. We grew it for the first time last year and it will be a firm favourite for the future. You may see recipes for Puntarella, with an ‘a‘ at…

  • English heritage wheat sourdough bread

    These three sourdough loaves are made with Doves Farm English Wholegrain Wheat flour mixed with Shipton Mill’s Organic White Strong Flour. I made up the dough yesterday and folded it four times and about one hour intervals and then left it in the fridge overnight to retard. This morning I took the dough out of…

  • Seedy Penpals February 2013 Update

    Our second Seedy Penpal exchange has got off to a great start. we have lots of enthusiastic people who are making new friends and oo-ing and ahh-ing over new seeds and other presents.

  • Seedy Penpals January 2013

    As many people found in August 2012, Seedy Penpals is a great way to share seeds with like-minded people. We all like to send and receive surprise treats: with Seedy Penpals you get to grow them too (and eat some). Follow the links at the bottom of that post to see the fun other people…

  • Ginger and Pecan Muffins Recipe

    This is one of Debs’ inventions that I made yesterday. When I first tasted them I was in food heaven. Lovely spicy ginger flavour with the roasted pecan taste and a hint of spice. It’s such a gorgeous combination – they are my favourite muffin now. What’s even better about this recipe is that you…

  • Peat Free Diet Audio Book Review

    Emma Cooper – The Peat Free Diet – Audio Book Running time in excess of 2 hours The Peat Free Diet (PFD) on Emma’s blog is a really useful resource for anyone interested in growing things. If you’re also interested in saving peat bogs by going peat free, then all the better: the book or…

  • Sourdough bread pudding recipe with spices, apricots & cranberries

    The rubbish ‘summer’ weather we’re having prompted a need for comfort food. I had a surfeit of bits & bobs of sourdough loaves in the bread bin, so bread pudding called to me. Instead of just using the normal dried fruit, I wanted some sparkle in the pudding. The vibrant orange of apricots and red…

  • Seedy Penpals

    Yesterday, Mel at Edible Things tweeted a link to a great idea for food bloggers and blog readers to get to know each other, by sending a lovely parcel in the mail every month. I re-tweeted the link to the US & UK schemes and soon got into a chat with Mel and Karen at…

  • Tarragon vinegar recipe

    My friend Emma has started Project Nosh to eat as many of the edible plants in her garden before she moves. One of the plants Emma wants ideas for is French tarragon (artemisia dracunculus). The dracunculus in the Latin name means ‘Little Dragon’, perhaps referring to the teeth like shape of the leaves or its…