Posted in Allotments, Recipe of the month, Unusual veg on Jan 23rd, 2012
Romanian Sirbusca (Potato and Root Parsley soup-stew) Deciding what you do with your root parsley once you’ve grown it is easy: you just plump for one of its multiple identities and use it just like you would parsnips, or carrots (or parsley, if you’re using the tops). We had ours roasted alongside the Sunday joint, [...]
Posted in Recipe of the month on Dec 13th, 2011
Pan-fried Brussels sprouts with bacon, shallots and juniper This may come as a shock, but you don’t have to boil sprouts. I know it’s traditional: I know it’s the way we all do it. But sprouts are so much more versatile than that. You can have them raw, shredded into salads with salami or hazelnuts; roast [...]
Posted in Recipe of the month on Nov 18th, 2011
Squash and lentil curry Although it’s vegetarian this is a really meaty winter stew – the kind that warms your stomach all day long, a bit like an internal electric blanket. I used my wonderful potimarron squash, which makes for a subtly unusual flavour and even more weighty texture. but you can make it with any type of winter squash. [...]
Posted in Allotments, Harvesting on Oct 17th, 2011
Right: enough of the lovely but here-today. gone-tomorrow earlies and second earlies: it’s time to get to grips with the meaty maincrops, the ones with the whopping yields and the staying power to keep us fuelled through winter. Maincrops: Lady Balfour: The first up and out of the ground, as it had keeled over to [...]
Posted in Allotments, Harvesting on Oct 12th, 2011
That moment when you lift your last forkful of potatoes and lay them out on the surface of the soil to dry off the skins for an hour or two before storing is a turning point in the veg-growing year. Soon after, the covers start to come out again, there is muck-spreading to be done and then the [...]
Apples (late varieties like Cox's Orange Pippin), beetroot, cabbage (green and red), carrots, celeriac, chard, Jerusalem artichokes, kale, kohlrabi, medlars, parsnips, pumpkins, quince, raspberries (autumn varieties), salad leaves, sprout tops, squashes, turnips
