Today I Mostly Harvested....!

[sewer rat]

Box day today so 50 heads of Spinach, 30 kg Milan turnips, 47 marrows, 11kg peas, 5 kg broad beans, 1 lettuce, 3 bunches Spring onions, 5 cauliflower, 47 red cabbage (check my album for piccie of the biggest one), as well as tatties, carrots and onions.

[Newbie]

My 1st two sweetcorn cobs of the year - hurrah! (and delicious they were too!), enough baby carrots for a meal for two, and a load of runner & french beans. Go about 4 cucumbers to pick too but don't know what to do with them (yes i know, eat them, before anyone says!!).

[Winged one]

Well, on Friday I mostly are harvested for weekend dinners:

Friday - toddler's tea - fresh peas (not even cooked, just shelled) and some tomatoes fresh from the hanging basket (the adults had a few as well).

Saturday - roasted Anya potatoes (on some garlic and rosemary), roasted yellow onions, beetroot (simply boiled), and broad beans (boiled, skinned and tossed in garlic, lemon juice and butter) with some pan fried "blossom" fish. (Had to buy fish, lemon and butter).

Sunday - roasted anya potatoes (with rosemary), roasted red onions, steamed brocolli with a gouda cheese sauce and roasted chicken legs with tarragon, garlic and lemon butter. (Had to buy chicken and gouda, used leftover lemon and butter - rest all our own). I also gave the toddler the last of the fresh peas as she isn't mad about brocolli (but she wanted LOADS of cheese sauce). The toddler, having been a bit picky about food for the past few days, DEMOLISHED her dinner, fed herself (a nice break for me!) and even had a second helping while we ate and was quiet about it too!!

(The toddler also ate well earlier while we did the supermarket shopping - a plum, a few cherry toms and half a carrot).

Today, I am having a salad for lunch (didn't have them for the past week or so and really feel the worse for it). Not much homegrown this week - but there is enough lettuce for the week and a few toms.

Rogan josh tonight (onions and garlic only), and spaghetti bolognaise tomorrow (again, onions and garlic). But I hope to have a big stir fry on Wednesday - with brussels sprouts, beans (broad and borlotti and french), courgettes, onions and garlic, and brocolli (and perhaps a pepper or a few mushrooms from the shop), to accompany some salmon, with either some rice or maybe roasted anyas if I have enough time. And I'll probably do my chorizo bake on Friday with our own spuds. As for thursday, I am only feeding myself, so definitely some kind of stirfry with rice or pasta (perhaps even a nasi goreng if I do rice on Wednesday), with lots of brussels sprouts and brocolli).

[Winged one]

Last Thursday, I did do a stirfry. With prawns and rice, and only our own veg (a courgette, some shredded brussels sprouts, brocolli shoots, some onion and garlic, broad, borlotti and haricot (from french) beans, and a few peas - a dash of soy sauce and some chinese 5 spice powder for seasoning. It was yum.

On friday night, we had a chorizo bake (using up some anyas again).

On saturday, I did a lot of cooking. Boiled a chicken with lots of veggies (carrots, celery from shops and onions from garden) and some thyme and bay leaves. Liquidised the veg with some chick meat and stock for soup for lunch (and OH used more stock with some fresh brocolli and onion from garden, and a couple of carrots from shop, for soup on Sunday). The toddler had chick with fresh peas for her dinner. We made a really yum lamb bhuna for dinner, with fresh naan breads, on the Saturday (who knew I could make bread?! ), which only involved onions from our own hands.

Sunday dinner was a roast beef, with roasted anyas, and roasted carrots/parsnips/red onions (again only our own onions in veg, but our own spuds) and proper gravy. I was going to do roasted baby leeks in a cheese sauce as well (which were our own) but ran out of time and energy.

The toddler had the leftover spuds (not very many left) chopped into slices and fried for her dinner last night - there were none left for me!! She's having tomatoes from the garden in her lunchbox for creche a few days every week still (as her piece of fruit).

This week, the shepherd's pie (last night) had brocolli, onion and garlic in it (and shop courgette, peas and carrots, and spuds for mash). The spag bol for tonight has onions and garlic in it, and I'll throw the fresh peas into that as well. Tomorrow is a lamb joint roasted in a tin with anya spuds, and our own onion, garlic, courgette, and plum tomatoes. with some shop peppers and mushrooms. I'll have our own beans alongside some fish for thursday. And I'll bake the leeks with cheese sauce on Friday with some pork chops.

[minipop]

The other day i made chicken noodle soup using leeks, mange tout, sweetcorn and sweet potato from my lottie - it was delicious! And less than £1 per serving - Bargain!

[Two_Sheds]

I've been away for a fortnight, so the plot was in a right state. Still, I managed to harvest half a dozen Double Standard sweetcorn, a carrier bagful of French beans to dry & shell, 4 big fat Cylindra beets, courgettes, some kale and lots of carrots

[Vladibab]

Rocket salad, the last of my purple brocolli and some bolted leeks

[Nes]

Had our first completely non-shop produced meal - roasted shoulder of lamb (courtesy of the in-laws who have a few sheep in Wales), roast potatoes, runner beans and swiss chard, all from the garden. Lovely. Hoping for a better choice next year now I've finally got a half allotment.

[wellie]

Courgettes, Mangetout, Runner Beans, Borlotti Beans.... So made a vat of Risotto for dinner with a view to freezing what we don't eat, in individual portions in silicon muffin mould trays.
With the risotto frozen like that, I can retrieve small portions from the freezer to add to Peppers for stuffing, use instead of potatoes with chicken breast meals I make, or add to a portion of soup to make the soup more 'filling', etc. etc...
"Which was Nice..."

[sewer rat]

Spent an hour or two this afternoon picking some veg during a torrential downpour, for my display box for tomorrows "Taste of Caithness & Sutherland" event.
All produce is home grown and consists of Tundra cabbage, Red Drumhead cabbage, Early Nantes 2 carrots, White Lisbon Spring Onions, Brora swede, Purple Top Milan turnips, Ambassador Courgettes, Taxi Courgettes, Red Duke of York potatoes, Witkiem Manita Broad Beans, Redbor Kale, Winterbor Kale, Pepinex 69 cucumber and Moneta beetroot.
I will also be displaying jars of Sweet Chutney, Picallili, Pickled Beetroot, Pickled Shallots, Cucumber Pickle, Rowan Jelly and Bramble Jelly

[New_Bud]

Some carrots and cherry toms (they just keep coming!).

[wiccanlou]

a few chillies, some kale and a couple of grapes!

[butter fingers]

today all i picked was some runner beans, that or beetroot and i dont like beetroot so didnt bother to pick any.

[FionaH]

Seven chillis from my one and only plant

[Two_Sheds]

Dug up my last spuds - a carrier bag each of Pink Fir and Rooster. Stored in a chest of drawers in the shed now.
Picked and shelled 3 carrier bags of French beans ... my favourite job
Cut 6 butternuts (Harrier F1) and left them in the sunshine to dry off a bit