For dinner today......

[bluemoon]

That sounds delish! How long do you roast your onions for?

It usually takes 45 - 50 minutes. It depends upon the size of the onion. One of the good things is, if you have children you can use some of your smaller onions, but would have to pop them in the oven 10 minutes or so after the adult sized ones.

[zazen999]

We dug up the rest of the Kestrel and Amorsa potatoes yesterday, and got 3 trays full and a big bag of biggies that we brought back.

We had huge baked potatos for lunch, along with roasted veg which was onions, golden beetroot, and courgettes; all sliced, and some olive oil, pepper and herbs that I bought in the South of France; topped off with some fried Halloumi. Step Daughter had her potato with beans. IT was GORGEOUS, and as we have picked slug resistant varieties this year, it is great having non-slugged potatoes that we can bake. YAY.

I have to recommend Golden Beetroot roasted, I found that normal beetroot need to be roasted whole, but the Yellow stuff can be peeled and chopped/sliced and bunged in and nothing else gets covered in yellowness.....and it tastes lovely.

[HayleyB]

Tonight we have rolled shoulder of lamb (from my farmer friend) and I will rummage some new potatoes (probably the Charlottes) with lollo rosso, some red salad bowl, spring onions, radishes (if I have any that haven't bolted) and baby raw carrots.

[Snadger]

Smug Sunday lunch today! *Would have been smugger if we'd used the home reared chicken in the freezer but opted for half price topside from Tesco's*

[Flummery]

Risotto Primavera - with home grown onion, sweet and hot peppers, skinned and chopped Brandywine toms, peas, small 'crimson flowered' broadies and the addition of some hot-smoked salmon and chopped hard boiled home-laid eggs. Smugness on a plate!

[nelliegemini]

A Weightwatchers recipe of sweetcorn soup with bacon and scallops - really creamy and luscious and only 3.5 points.

I would like to say that it was my own sweetcorn, onion and cauliflower, we killed and cured our own pig and I, personally collected the hand dived scallops ..... however my only contribution was the chives!

However, we did divvy up our first ever courgette (in the hope that the sacrifice of one tiddler will encourage the rest to grow) as the smallest ever starter.

[Bren In Pots]

The first of the carrot thinning and a few runner beans that's are ready, not sure what else, maybe salmon and potatoes.

[Lovage]

Today was a roast dinner with our own potatoes, carrots, fennel & kohl rabi ( with a little pork as a side dish! ) followed by blackcurrant and gooseberry crumble

Yesterday was lettuce, rocket, cucumber & beetroot (with salmon on the side) followed by raspberries and red currant muffins

Tomorrow has to include sugar snap peas and courgettes & when will we eat the spinach?

Living like kings! - have you ever known a better season?

[bluemoon]

Smug Roast Sunday lunch for us too today, but with pork rather than beef (which we didn't produce). The flour and milk for the Yorkshire puds was bought too, but everything else was all ours.

[zazen999]

Roast spuds for dinner tonight, with braised cabbage and onions. The cabbage was flippin lovely.

[bubblewrap]

Broad beans, runner beans, carrots, beetroot, potatoes, parsley sauce,(all grown on lottie) & fish.

[maytreefrannie]

Steak from the butcher (rib-eye), onions from the supermarket,
broad beans, carrot thinnings and one courgette from the garden.
Plus - new potatoes grown and given to us by a friend.
Washed down with elderflower champagne (or Shampagne).

A royal feast!

[dexterdoglancashire]

We've had home grown tatties, broad beans, onions and swiss chard with orgaic pork loin for tea. Still got turnips, beetroot and of course, courgettes to go, oh and lots more poatoes, onions and courgettes to go.....

[Hilary B]

Roast beef, roast spuds (small one each), bought.
New pots, assorted legumes, home grown. (french beans, sugarpod peas, just a taste of the asparagus peas. May have some runners by next week).
Afters, banana and apricot bread (real 'bread' recipe with added bananas and dried apricots).