In The Kitchen

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 […]

Blink and you miss them – it’s courgette time! The extremes of weather we’re having at the moment seem to be perfect for our courgettes this year! Let’s just say we could eat them for every meal and still have some spare! I try and pick one or two every day so that they’re not […]

Marvellous mangetout We always grow some mangetout in the tunnel to get a really early crop of this delicious veg before moving on to a row of it in the veg plot. Martin grew some in a large pot as well this year so we’ve already had plenty in the kitchen. A lot of it […]

With the asparagus growing so well at the moment we’re trying to use some in most of our dishes and this is one that can be combined with another of our favourite spring veg – spring greens. It’s surprisingly filling and is packed full of goodness. both spring greens and asparagus provide a huge amount […]