Eating seasonally

[Nemesis]

Many folks with period props have chunks of land and inspiration regarding what to do with the gluts is often required.

This site is very useful, for those of us who wish to 'eat seasonally' - for sound ecological reasons as well as ones of using our own produce, or what we can buy at Country Markets or Farmers' Markets:


http://www.eattheseasons.co.uk/whyeattheseasons.htm

My courgette glut is being eaten thanks to the whole list of recipes linked via the courgette part of the site (green beans though... hmmm....)

http://www.abel-cole.co.uk/Content/Recipes/Courgettes.htm

More here:

http://www.abel-cole.co.uk/Default.aspx?tab=Recipes

Weekly e-mails are good to get too.

 

[L1zzy]

What a great site - thankyou I started a veg box from my local organice farm last Friday all lovely but I got 4 leeks which i'm ashamed to say are still waiting to be munched as I couldn't think of anything more exciting than boiling them and eating with butter p&S this site gives me ideas.

 

[Nemesis]

Yes we have a leek glut to come...



Here are many recipes:

http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/aa040901a.htm



http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/food/recipes/queryengine?templatestyle=refine_by_1&config=db&scope-recipes&page=1&pagesize=15&attrib_1=ingredient_name&oper_1=eq&val_1_1=leek&submit=Search


I liked the sound of this one, makes a very prosaic veg rather glam!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/leekandwildmushroomv_74405.shtml

 

[Geoffrey]

My windfall pears are being eaten by my labrador - with rather unpleasant consequences!!

 

[Nemesis]

After living here for thirteen years, we have discovered we have a pear tree - one pear!

Plums though - hundreds, many being eaten by rabbits. Thankfully the results are not indoors.

 

[Zac]

Chop leekes at 1" intervals, steam & then mix into a cheese sauce, serve with your Sunday roast.

 

[biffvernon]

Plums though - hundreds, many being eaten by rabbits.

That'll be the tree-climbing rabbits, then?

Thankfully the results are not indoors.

Outdoor tree-climbing rabbits?

 

[Nemesis]

No, outdoor plum eating rabbits - wind (!) falls. They have enjoyed them!

I've just had the courgette bake from the recipe on the website - very good indeed.

Own courgettes, own onions, fresh herbs, eggs from a friend's chickens - cheese alas cheddar, but I think it will be good with Birdoswald.

Leeks - cheese sauce sounds great, but will have with nut roast - if the wildlife leaves us any hazelnuts. They are vanishing rapidly too.

 

[NT]

Leeks and courgettes in cheese sauce: add apricot jam to the sauce to make a pleasant change.

NT

 

[L1zzy]

Cooer you lot don't half know how to live it up don't you - I shall go home and cook my leeks tonite Thanq!

Wish I had high living rabbits in my garden

 

[NT]

> Eating seasonally

I like to eat more often than that. Maybe I'm just greedy.

NT

 

[David Q]

Strangely enough we had virtually no plums this year, but loads of both damsons and sloes. Lots of pears, fewer eating apples but loads of cookers. Wish Mother Nature was a bit more organised!

If the plums stay on the ground for a while they ferment, then you get drunken rabbits. (Ready marinaded?)

 

[NT]

That can be a real problem with stinging insects, when drunk they tend to get rather aggressive.

NT

 

[Penners]

My courgette glut is being eaten

Glut? Glut??. Some hope!

We had to replant our runner beans three times this year, because the slugs kept eating the bl**dy lot!

 

[Moo]

We were delighted to discover that the little old tree on the allotment carried a bumper crop of the most delicious plums we've ever tasted. They looked like large damsons, but tasted like superlative Victorias.
And the apple trees are groaning under the weight of their fruit. And we've just ordered another little freezer to store all the blackberries.

Mind you we do live in East Anglia.

 

[Moo]

PS

Why is this thread so wide? I have to use the scroll bar at the bottom to read a line from one end to the other.

 

[Moo]

PPS

That's odd - now we're on a second page, it's back to a normal length.

 

[Penners]

Just be grateful that your slugs can't climb trees.

 

[Penners]

Sorry, Moo. That last post now looks like a total non-sequitur, 'cos I didn't notice that you'd turned over the page.

Yes - it's widescreen on the first page for me, too.

 

[Moo]

No need for any apology - apart from the fact that you've reminded me of another foe to fight once I've started growing things next year.