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HOMEMADE PASTA – IT’S HARD WORK

September 4, 2011 No Comments

I made tortellini from scratch for Sunday night dinner, and oh my stars it was a lot of work! It was very satisfying, but I’m not sure I’ll do it again until I am really trying to impress someone.

As is my usual cooking style it was a mix between three different recipes this one, this one and one from an old Italian cookbook that my mum lent me. I don’t know why I can’t just follow one recipe, commitment issues?

My mix and match recipe went something like this:

Baked Spinach and Ricotta Tortellini with Pumpkin and Sage Sauce

Garden

A YEAR OF GARDENING

July 31, 2011 No Comments

It’s been a year since we started our first little 1x.8m veggie garden bed, we have slowly taken over every available space like weeds. No bare patch of soil is safe in our garden!

Our first transition into winter was a bit clunky, and I’m determined to have the garden bursting with produce all year round, the huge paved area is begging to be used. Doing our final design for our PDC has inspired us and we’re going to see if the landlord will let us completely make over the garden. Fingers crossed.

Garden

RUTHLESS PRUNING – JUNE IN THE GARDEN

June 30, 2011 No Comments

June has been a slow month. Our potato plants began to die so we started digging up their little red treasures. Our PDC lecturer inspired us to buy some bare rooted trees. We bought an almond from St Erth to grow up and hide the flats and a nectarine because it rates as one of my favourite fruits. The almond is going to share its plot with a sweet little kiwi berry and some spring bulbs. Dylan pruned the poor almond down to three branches, but come spring the sad little twig should sprout into an abundance of leaves and flowers…fingers crossed. Perhaps his min swale will help it flourish.

Garden, Recipes

COLOURFUL CARROTS – MAY IN THE GARDEN

May 30, 2011 No Comments

Autumn has finally hit and the orange and gold leaves are stunning. I took some rather late sage cuttings, I assume spring would have been a better time, but perhaps a warm window sill will be enough to encourage them to anchor into the soil. Pulling beautiful purple and yellow carrots from the ground was such a thrill, although I must admit my carrots had quite the cushy life and had more top than root and had to be supplemented by some absolute giants from the Sunday Market. I’ll have to be much meaner to them next time so they fatten up!