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Category Archives: Recipes
Pumpkin Spiced Bundt Cake
With such an amazing haul of pumpkins and butternut squash harvested from the allotment this year, I was on the lookout for a new recipe to use this produce. I have always been a fan of Nigella, and her new … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged Bundt tin, Nigella, Nigella Lawson Pumpkin Bundt Cake, Pumpkin, Pumpkin Bundt Cake, pumpkin recipes, pumpkin spice
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Chilli jam for chilly days!
The weather has certainly changed since a few weeks ago and you can definitely feel you are in Autumn. The allotment beds need clearing of the spent produce and plans for preparation for next year are in full flow. The … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Recipes
Tagged chilli jam recipe, chillies, green chillies, green pepper, red chillies, red pepper
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Mary Berry’s Gingerbread Cookie Dough
Gingerbread cookies are a family favourite in my home any time of the year. I have a variety of cookie cutters and my youngest daughter has so much fun picking out the novelty designs to use with the basic gingerbread … Continue reading
Brussel Sprouts – love them or hate them!
Brussel sprouts generally get a bad press as a tasty vegetable. They would come into what I would deem to be the Marmite category – you either love them or you hate them. Well, in my household we are definitely … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Recipes
Tagged Brussel Sprout, Christmas, Christmas dinner, Delia Smith, Delia Smith Christmas, Marmite, vegetable
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Give thanks for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated across the pond with our cousins in America and Canada, where people give thanks for what they have. It is a family orientated holiday, sometimes celebrated more than the Christmas period where people take … Continue reading
Posted in Information, Recipes
Tagged national holiday, pilgrim, Pumpkin, pumpkin pie, pumpkin pie recipe, Puritan, Thanksgiving, turkey
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Pumpkin Soup with Parmesan
Nothing tastes better on an autumnal night than a bowl of thick, hot pumpkin soup with well buttered crusty bread. This recipe adds a cheesy flavour with the help of Parmesan cheese. When using Parmesan, don’t throw away the rinds. … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged autumn, butternut squash, cheese, freezing, parmesan, Parmesan rind, Pumpkin, pumpkin recipes, pumpkin soup, soup, winter squash
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Garden Vegetable and Chicken soup
I tend to be happiest at the moment when I’m either tinkering in the garden, weeding and tending my plants or baking and cooking in my kitchen. I’m ecstatic when I can combine the two! Harvesting produce out of my … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Recipes
Tagged Allotment, carrots, celery, chicken, Chilli, containers, frozen peas, garden, harvesting, leeks, onion, pallets, parsnips, peas, potatoes, pots, raised beds, recycled, runner beans, soup, stock cube, vegetables
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Sweetcorn Relish
Keeping with the preserving and pickling theme that I seem to be writing a lot about at the minute, I thought that I would try making sweetcorn relish using the sweetcorn that I had stored in the freezer. There were … Continue reading
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Tagged freezer, Mrs Beeton, mustard seeds, pickles, preserve, relish, sweetcorn, vinegar
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