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Kay Sexton - Grow your own »
Poached Pears and Almond Cream
Posted on 1:00pm Saturday 7th November 2009
Winter desserts don't have to be boring - pears poached with almond cream and chocolate on a brioche base.
Alan Phillips - Life with Lottie »
Moctecmuza’s Delight.
Posted on 8:40am Wednesday 4th November 2009
Kay Sexton - Grow your own »
A recipe for green tomatoes
Posted on 2:30pm Friday 30th October 2009
If you have some rather small and not particularly ripe tomatoes left at the end of the season, you can always make chutney, but we really like tomato clafoutis, which we first had in France – a clafoutis is something like a Yorkshire pudding and something like a soft batter pudding, in that it’s crispy and brown on top, but soft and melting underneath.
Alan Phillips - Life with Lottie »
A Blaze of Glory
Posted on 8:20am Thursday 29th October 2009
I always wonder why politicians and bankers do not learn from Lottie; they should go out in a blaze of glory.
Kay Sexton - Grow your own »
Pumpkins – curing and cooking
Posted on 4:58pm Friday 23rd October 2009
‘Curing’ a pumpkin begins with harvesting – pumpkins and gourds should not be picked while they are still soft. Green or immature fruits only keep for a few weeks before they begin to shrivel. This means that before you harvest them you need to make sure they are bright and rich in whatever is their normal colour – orange for pumpkins, anything from pure white to deep yellow for various other forms of squash and gourd and – most crucially – they should have a fairly hard rind.
Georgy Edgson - urban avant gardener »
Julie Green Talks "Grow Your Neighbour's Own"
Posted on 9:50am Wednesday 21st October 2009
I’m a committed advocate of encouraging people to garden anywhere and everywhere. Lack of soil or space hasn’t stopped me from growing vegetables and herbs for my family, and it shouldn’t hinder you either. There is, of course, a lot going for the joy and masochistic satisfaction of double digging and actually working the land – and you can’t do that with a container garden.
Kay Sexton - Grow your own »
Winter Vegetables: the celeriac
Posted on 10:45am Saturday 17th October 2009
Celeriac is not a pretty vegetable – it looks a bit like Warren Clarke after a rough night – but its rugged looks no reflection on its delicate flavour.
Author Unknown »
Winter Vegetable Container Gardening
Posted on 11:22am Friday 9th October 2009
Winter vegetable growing, container gardening, growing food in containers, winter herbs
Alan Phillips - Life with Lottie »
A good week for frogs
Posted on 5:05pm Wednesday 7th October 2009
This is not a comment on the Conservative party and their failure to call for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and the diplomatic implications for France that wants a stronger Europe. No this is a comment on something more important, why Lottie likes frogs' legs.
Kay Sexton - Grow your own »
Getting to know the vegetables you grow
Posted on 1:00pm Friday 2nd October 2009
Home grown vegetables vary much more than supermarket ones and you can make the best of them by understanding their seasonality.
Alan Phillips - Life with Lottie »
Ode to Autumn Lottie
Posted on 4:45pm Thursday 1st October 2009
The end of September and the end of Lottie? Certainly the end of our Indian summer and those dreamy sunny days, as autumn arrives I need to anticipate next spring.
Kay Sexton - Grow your own »
Pear recipes for home-grown fruit
Posted on 3:32pm Friday 25th September 2009
Home-grown fruit can be delicious when cooked properly. Pears are a seductive pudding if you know how to handle them.
Alan Phillips - Life with Lottie »
Seedy Lottie
Posted on 5:52pm Tuesday 22nd September 2009
It has been suggested that Lottie is promiscuous, which is offensive and takes anthropomorphism to a new level; however the same cannot be said about some about her offspring. You have to take great care where the offspring have been, who their neighbours are and what visitors they have been associating with. It is important to take precautions. Cucumbers for example have to be handled with care, not least of all the heritage long prickly varieties such as Mr. Lockie's Perfection
Kay Sexton - Grow your own »
Growing Your Own – Non-Sensualists Need Not Apply
Posted on 2:32pm Monday 21st September 2009
There is no vetting of people who obtain allotments in Brighton and Hove, but I’m increasingly coming to the opinion that there should be. Not that I’d want interrogations about how much horticultural experience you have, or your ability to tell wilt from blight at fifty paces, but one essential qualification for enjoying an allotment is sensuality.
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