I love this time of year when we start to pull more than just salad out of the garden!
Creating meals with lots of fresh veg is always exciting, and I love that the garden is now starting to produce loads! Last nights tea contained two of my favourites, garlic scrapes and broad beans! I need to grow more of both next year.
In the polytunnel we have chillies and tomatoes so close now! I can't wait to taste them! The ones in the greenhouse are way behind these but hopefully should spread out when we have a huge glut (providing blight keeps away!).
As well as that I have about 6 plants for pickling cucumbers, they have so many little fruits on - I'm really looking forward to trying to pickle enough for us for the year. Does anyone have a good recipe they'd like to share? I'm after one where we can get them to last and not go mouldy!
Do you want to pickle your cucumbers whole (gherkins) or sliced? I'll make F pull out her pickling books and get back to you.
ReplyDeleteI seem to have lost my best preserving book - either that or lent it to someone!
Deletei just made pounds of scape butter to freeze. we use it all the time. what are you doing with yours?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds good! We just steamed ours and had it with a little butter as a side vegetable! The kids wolfed them down!
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