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Monday, 22 August 2011

Late-August harvests


Harvested:

900g spuds
Beast #1 (Halloween pumpkin) 2.7 kg
Beast #2 3 kg
Minibeast 1.2 kg
Carrots 500g (incl a massive one: Giant Flakker)
Raspberries (incl some strawbs) 1.3 kg
Rhubarb 340g (I know we shouldn't have and it was too woody anyway)
Onions 300g
Yellow courgettes 800g
Parsley 100g
Corn on the cob 780g
Broccoli 900g
Radicchio 600g
Mini cuke 37g
Runner beans 600g

Recipes:

Evening meal with yesterday's chicken, spuds, corn on the cob

Made broccoli lasagna: used up the flowered broccoli here. Tastewise absolutely fine but the texture is really stringy so won't use again for quiches. Should be good for veg stock though.

Baked 12 carrot muffins using Jamie Oliver's recipe – very nice! Left out the walnuts as I had none available but it didn't matter. The cinnamon worked very well. Bit oily though. Maybe because of the granulated sugar instead of caster? Will try to use less oil. P from next door absolutely loved them though. If I pass baked stuff over the garden fence, he'll eat it.

Later made 4 pots of raspberry jam with the new 8.5ltr stainless-steel Maslin pot. Totally going back to my country roots here. Both my great-grandparents had allotments and kept ancient jars full of bottled fruit on their cellar shelves.

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