Random crops question!

[veggiechicken]

When you walk around your garden/plot, do you see your crops as vegetables/fruit or do you see them as ingredients in a recipe?

As I wander I wonder whether I could combine some of the ingredients in a novel way - hitherto undreamt of by all the TV chefs!

How about stewing apples with lovage for celery flavoured apple sauce?

Would raspberries complement carrots? Would it be a savoury or a dessert?

Maybe cook apples in a soy sauce flavoured stirfry with leeks - or in a curry?

Have you tried any odd combinations that you can recommend?................and no, I haven't tried any of these concoctions.........yet.

[Chestnut]

Reminds me of a conversation with mum, when I was a nipper
Mum was adamant she had absolutely no idea of what foods/flavours go with one another - until I pointed out that she’d never yet served us custard on roast beef, or icecream with pickled beetroot.....

[SarrissUK]

I do see my fruit and veg as ingredients more than the finished product... and I tend to cook in a way that incorporates something sweet, something savoury and something sour. It's finding a balance, and I think most things go, in terms of ingedient combos.

[Thelma Sanders]

When I look at harvested veg in the fridge, I always think what I can do with them, but that doesn't include any strange untried combinations though.
Carrots in a sweet dish, or apples in a savoury one, are nothing new, though - if you've ever read old recipe books.
When I had apple trees in my old garden I did used to put them in curries and grate them in coleslaw, still will if they've been in the fruit bowl a bit too long
Apple and mint jelly is good, so apple and celery is certainly worth a try.

[Can the Man]

When I look at harvested veg in the fridge, I always think what I can do with them, but that doesn't include any strange untried combinations though.
Carrots in a sweet dish, or apples in a savoury one, are nothing new, though - if you've ever read old recipe books.
When I had apple trees in my old garden I did used to put them in curries and grate them in coleslaw, still will if they've been in the fruit bowl a bit too long
Apple and mint jelly is good, so apple and celery is certainly worth a try.

I often put apple or pineapple in curries, sometimes even raisins or sultanas.
Shredded apple in bread stuffing for chicken or turkey and especially stuffed pork steak

[veggiechicken]

I've made the red cabbage with apple and put fruit in coleslaw /Florida salad and sweet and sour type dishes, but......................when you don't have all the ingredients you have to improvise.

[chillithyme]

I see my plants as food, if I can't eat it I don't want to grow it I do love flowers too, for viewing not eating.

I need to have chillis with everything, including on my toast in the morning. If I don't eat chillies I don't feel like I've eaten properly.

[SarrissUK]

I need to have chillis with everything, including on my toast in the morning.

Wow, that's a new one on me! Chilli on toast??

[chillithyme]

Make a piece of toast, spread over whatever you fancy, add sliced chilli . Simple and yummy, can't wait for breakfast But you do have to like chillies!

Another one is apple and cheese cubes, when I see apples, I see cheese

[veggiechicken]

Toast, marmalade or honey and chilli???

That's extreme randomness

[chillithyme]

Jam, Marmalade or Houmus, if you like chillis then it will make you feel warm and happy, especially in the cold winter months

[chillithyme]

I don't like chilli and chocolate, thats just weird, or honey and chillies, I respect the bees too much

[roitelet]

Grated cooked beetroot and apple salad with walnuts and walnut oil is good

[Mr Bones]

Grated cooked beetroot and apple salad with walnuts and walnut oil is good

Similar to what I was thinking Roitelet. Grated raw beetroot, apple and sultanas with either creme fraiche or sesame oil.

[Bren In Pots]

I see my plants as food, if I can't eat it I don't want to grow it I do love flowers too, for viewing not eating..

That's my view as well, Nasturtiums are nice to eat though, I don't think I eat any odd combinations or maybe they don't seem odd to me