Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking, Special Events
Where oh where do the days vanish to? I don’t know, but perhaps it’s just ‘that time of year’! There is so much happening…in the garden, preparing for events, cooking (to name just a few distractions), which is why there’s not been...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
Experimenting with ‘ripeness’ of the Cape Gooseberry. I’ve only grown them once before, a few years ago, so I’m not entirely sure at which point to pick them. I baked these ones ’til wrinkled, and they were absolutely sublime. ...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
Simple, yet satisfactory. Some days there is an awful lot to harvest….on others, not much at all, which can be a relief! For just a few days last week I was on my own, and it’s quite extraordinary how little one actually needs. The egg, of course, could...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
Er….did I say something a couple of days ago about heading for a Kitchen Garden detox??!! What pure joy to return to garden-to-plate food!
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
Wow….the little indicator tells me this is blog post no. 500!!! Woohoo! Whoever would have thought? What a lovely post for that milestone to coincide with: the Great Glenmore Garlic Harvest of 2014! I decided late on Sunday afternoon that the task of digging...
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...
