Recipe: Medlar Jelly
What is a medlar I hear you ask? Mespilus germanica is a small odd shaped fruit grown here since Roman times. A small sized roundish fruit with a rough mid
Recipe: Crab Apple Jelly
I am a preserver, by that I mean I make use of as much produce, foraged, home grown and free as I can. From my plot (400m2), from friends as
Recipe : Gooseberry & Strawberry tart
Strawberries it seems go with everything, at the early end of it a friend introduced me to a Strawberry and rhubarb tart along with strawberry and rhubarb jam , both
Recipe: Gooseberry and Elderflower fool
Gooseberries and elderflower are good companions, not least because they are out in the world at the same time. We have had a bumper crop of berries this year, slightly
Recipe: Gooseberry crumble
This is first in a short series of gooseberry recipes. There’s a glut, pretty much every year and I sometimes need to be reminded of what to do with the
Growing Garlic this year?
On a whim at the end of last year I planted a bag of garlic that I purchased from the clearout tray at Homebase. Jamie Oliver‘s latest packaged item announced