Tag: food

• Minted Pea & Ham Soup

  

  It’s the end of Great British Pea Week, and what better time to celebrate my love for the humble garden pea! Starting life as a shrivelled up wrinkly seed, the first luscious green leaves that emerge are a welcome sight in early spring. Once they start growing, they don’t need much encouragement as they soon start…

  Katrina

  15/07/2018

  Recipes, Summer, Vegetables

  eat fresh, food, grow your own food, homegrown, kitchen garden, national pea week, organic, peas, recipe, soup recipe

• Butternut Squash and Chorizo Macaroni Cheese

  

  I don’t know about you but autumn is the time of year when I am most excited to be in the kitchen! I think it’s just when the weather begins to turn frosty and the leaves outside crispen and curl that I particularly enjoy cooking the hearty, comfort foods that we all love to indulge…

  Katrina

  21/11/2017

  Recipes

  Allotment, Autumn, butternut squash, cooking, food, grow your own, homegrown, recipe

• Oh My Squash!

  

  My first successful squash harvest!

  Katrina

  26/10/2017

  Autumn, Vegetables

  Allotment, Autumn, butternut, crown prince, food, garden, gardening, grow your own, growing, gyo, harvest, pumpkin, pumpkin day, spaghetti squash, squash

• Squash Overload

  You might remember how excited I was to find my first squashes including some tiny butternut squashes forming last month. Well, it seems 2017 is going to be the year of the squash! I keep seeing more and more pop up beneath the jungle of leaves. I counted..wait for it…

  Katrina

  18/08/2017

  Vegetables

  Allotment, butternut squash, edible garden, food, grow your own food, growing squash, kitchen garden, pumpkins

• Greenhouse Update (with video!) 

  The small greenhouse is becoming very crowded! Only thing is, I still have even more (yes, I probably over did it a little..) pepper and tomato plants growing at home, eager to be moved into the new polytunnel. Fingers crossed it will *finally* go up this weekend – that is IF the weather holds out.

  Katrina

  25/05/2016

  Polytunnel, Spring

  Allotment, courgette, food, garden, green fingers, greenhouse, grow your own food, growing, kitchen garden, organic, progress

• Potato Plans

  Preparation The potatoes are chitting away nicely and while they develop knobbly, vivid shoots I’m frantically clearing and digging what will be their enormous bed to grow in. The bed is about 6m x 3.5m which is at least four times the size of what I grew my spuds in last year. The lack of space…

  Katrina

  23/03/2016

  Vegetables

  Allotment, food, garden, grow your own, growing, potatoes, Spring