Using as much allotment produce as I can ….. so, today some delicious tomato soup which is now in the freezer.
We’ve been next door for a lovely dinner tonight and I took the pud –
– a Strawberry Shortcake made to my Mum’s recipe.
Category Archives: allotment
Tomato Soup and Strawberry Shortcake
From Plot to Plate
Yesterday we realised that one of our cauliflowers was ready to eat. Today we cut it – Cauliflower Cheese for supper.
In the ground
Washed and in Mr S’s hands
Cooked and covered with cheese sauce
Crispy, mustardy, cheesy topping
Another Brilliant Harvest
Lots of tomatoes, 1.5kg today, (and 50 more on the plants), fine green beans, one more patty pan squash and three courgettes – I don’t know how we missed that whopper! It’s so good to eat something in the evening that was growing in the afternoon! Tomato sauce and green tomato chutney are on the to-do list for later in the week.
Today’s Harvest
Beans, fine beans and tomatoes from the allotment.
Foraged blackberries on a meringue nest with creme fraiche.
Books, Mist and Onions
Happy National Book Lovers Day!
Books by my Dad, the storyteller
I love this quotation from Neil Gaiman – “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.”
We were in Falmouth early this morning and drove around Castle Drive for the views. Today, we could scarcely see St Antony lighthouse.
Our onion harvest looks pretty but the rain has damaged them all so I am cooking them to freeze rather than the usual plaiting . I love how they look plaited up but these ones will not be keepers, sadly.
Onions, Squash and Flowers
We’ve pulled all our onions that we’ve grown at the allotment and they are now on the table in the garden as we hope for some sunshine to cure them prior to plaiting them for use over the next year.
We also have another courgette and three little Patty Pan squash for roasting.
I love this colour combination of a rather windswept Agapanthus with a beautifully shaggy white Dahlia.
Blues and Bees
Walking to the allotment, I pass a glorious Hydrangea which has got bluer as the days go by. 
My second blue today is a mix of the remarkable iridescent blues and greens of a feather, a Magpie tail feather I think.
More bees at the lottie today, on someone’s alliums. 
Puzzlement, Gardens and More Tomatoes
I have no idea what happened to my blog yesterday. I couldn’t find it but then see it is marked as published on 23rd July, madness as the family hadn’t even arrived then! On the 23rd I posted a Mary Oliver poem and a friend commented on SMS how she had enjoyed it. So, where has that one gone and why has yesterday’s been published before it was written?! Over to you WordPress.
After singing today, a bunch of us went for lunch in Falmouth and we walked past some very pretty gardens.
Back to the lottie this afternoon where everything is ripening and ready for harvest. We lifted lots of onions and picked four more tomatoes, date added for clarity!
Post Box Topper, A Rubbing and Tomatoes 26/7/23
Sadly, our family visit was a flying one but at least the days they were here we had sunshine and lots of laughs and fun. Today it has rained almost non-stop.
Just along the road is a delightful new post box topper of bees and a beehive.
We have less wall space than we had in our last house and have some art works in leaning piles. This lovely rubbing was given to us 50+ years ago by a college friend when he came back from Thailand. It is now on its way to a new wall.
We picked a handful of tomatoes yesterday and ate them in BLTs for lunch before the family left.
