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Recipe: Fried Green Tomatoes

Recipe: Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes What are fried green tomatoes: When you have a glut of tomatoes at the end of the season you can either ripen them on a sunny windowsill, make green tomato chutney or dredge in flour and shallow fry in rapeseed or vegetable […]

Blackberry Jam with Lemon and Nutmeg

Blackberry Jam with Lemon and Nutmeg

Making home made jam fills your kitchen with intoxicating smells and give you a sense of achievement.  We have an allotment where we spend loads of our free time and grow lots of our vegetables during the summer and fall growing seasons. Something that does […]

Keeping Kitchen Costs Down – Dinner for £0.45

Keeping Kitchen Costs Down – Dinner for £0.45

Tonight I was very proud to be serving a tasty, nutritious, satisfying meal to Mr R but which cost the total sum of £0.45!  How did I do that? Well, we had sausages, jacket potatoes, yellow courgettes and rainbow chard.   The sausages were turkey […]

Allotment Inspired Dinner

Allotment Inspired Dinner

There are loads of ‘Here’s what I had for dinner’ blogs but please grant me this one because I grew a good deal of the meal on my allotment! I do feel quite proud of myself lugging my trug home full of produce that I […]