Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
It was with a slight sense of fear & trepidation that I presented, for the first time, our very own olives at last Saturday’s Kitchen Gardening lunch! Not that it’s the first time I’ve ever tried to ‘keep’ our harvest before, but...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
I’m thinking asparagus with a poached egg, wilted pea tips & baby leaf amaranth, scattered with a few baby broad beans for dinner tonight. What do you think? Spring, oh spring delight!
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
Morning tea cakes for spring garden visitors, with some unlikely companions: crabapple blossom & the last of the exquisitely coloured, crinkly kale Redbor.
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
Oh yes…there will be rhubarb for our weekend breakfasts! The supply has been a bit hit & miss these last months – sometimes a wheelbarrow load, other times slim pickings, but this weekend there’ll be no shortage of crisp red stems to...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
Really do have the most extraordinary growth habit. And yes, I know the photograph is upside down…for some reason, I took it this way (it seemed amusing at the time….then the light faded and I was determined to eat them with last night’s roast...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
Preparing the day’s flowers – they’re good enough to eat, and the pungent scent of rocket fills the air…
