admin | October 2, 2007
Today Fiona from The Cottage Smallholder cooked up Gypsy Style Pot Roast Pheasant on ITV1’s Britain’s Best Dish. So well done Fiona, your recipe certainly gets the farmingfriends vote.
I am disappointed not to see the programme as I was at work at 5pm when it was aired and I have just been searching the ITV website [...]
admin | October 2, 2007
Ingredients
Diced chicken.
1 carrot peeled and sliced.
1 courgette sliced.
Orange, green, red & yellow peppers deseeded and sliced.
Mushrooms sliced.
1 red onion peeled and sliced.
Pine nuts.
1 tbsp honey.
1 tbsp lemon juice.
Dash of soy sauce.
Olive oil.
Single cream.
Method
Heat olive oil and fry diced chicken until cooked.
Add onion and mushrooms and fry until softened.
Add the carrots and courgettes with a dash of [...]
admin | September 14, 2007
My taste buds have had a real treat as I have sampled a number of interesting yet different courgette recipes recently.
The latest recipe I decided to have a go at was Joanna’s Lemony Courgette Salad.
This recipe got our taste buds really tingling. The tangy, zesty lemon mixed with the toasted pine nuts and the wafer [...]
admin | September 11, 2007
I love chocolate and I love courgettes, but not at the same time I hear you cry! Actually yes! I found a recipe for chocolate and courgette cake over at Pumpkin Soup ages ago and decided to try it at the weekend.
As I mixed the ingredients together I was a bit dubious as to how [...]
admin | September 8, 2007
I made flat mushrooms with bacon and cheese for tea the other night and they were delicious. The recipe is from The Great Big Vegetable Challenge which not only has fantastic recipes but tracks Freddie’s inspirational journey through the A-Z of vegetables.
This dish can be served as a light bite meal, a fantastic starter at a dinner party, [...]
admin | September 6, 2007
Yesterday I found a rather large courgette in the garden so decided to make courgette soup for lunch.
Ingredients
900g / 2lb courgettes sliced thinly.
1 medium onion peeled and sliced.
Butter for frying onions.
1tsp dried oregano.
1 pint of vegetable stock.
150g soft cheese.
Method
Heat butter in pan and fry onions until they are soft but not browned.
Add courgettes slices and [...]
admin | August 21, 2007
Back in early September 2005 I decided to use up some of the courgette and green tomatoes which kept growing in my veg garden by making courgette and green tomato chutney. I had never made chutney before but I thought I would give it a go. I am pleased to say that this chutney is [...]
admin | August 16, 2007
This lunch time we enjoyed our third courgette from the two flood damaged courgette plants. As we have not had many courgettes we are still enjoying them and want to taste the vegetable and not find other ways to use them up!
We decided to cut the courgette lengthways.
Then we fried the pieces in a little olive [...]
admin | August 9, 2007
I enjoy growing beetroot and have had some success with it over the last few years and even the floods in June have not deterred the beet from growing. One way of preserving the beetroot season is by pickling the beetroot and this is quite simple to do.
Pickling Beetroot
Ingredients
Beetroot
Vinegar (malt vinegar, wine vinegar or pickling [...]
admin | August 4, 2007
I love courgettes / zucchinis and this year I was hoping for many courgettes that I would be able to cook in many different ways trying out new and interesting recipes I have found in the blogging world.
I planted twenty courgette plants earlier in the season and all the plants were doing very well when [...]
