In The Kitchen

Bramley apple overnight porridge It’s cold in the garden, but lovely gardening weather as long as you can stay off the grass! We’ve been doing some tidying up in the veg plot and pruning the fruit bushes and trees this week and once your body acclimatises it’s lovely to be out in the fresh, crisp […]

Winter Root Veg Bake This root veg bake is a real favourite in our house and always appears on the Christmas table. I’ve just made ours and it will sit happily in the freezer until the big day – although obviously not so big this year so I’ve split it into two and will keep […]

Our apple harvest has been great this year and we’ve been busy processing them over the last couple of weeks. We had a juicing session last weekend which has given us plenty of bottles to squirrel away, the freezer has loads of crumbles and puree ready to enjoy over the winter and the best keepers […]

It’s a slightly different Hallowe’en in our village tonight. Usually by now we’ve had several knocks on the door as unrecognizable family groups walk round Trick or Treating in their ghoulish costumes! This year though lots of houses have decorated windows or garden gates with spiders, witches and pumpkins for families to spot as they […]

It’s definitely soup weather here in North Yorkshire! Having said that the tomatoes have really benefited from the spell of lovely warm weather that we had earlier in the week and I’ve got a lot of fruits turning a lovely shade of crimson. The peppers have done quite well in the tunnel so I’ve managed […]