rhubarb ginger sponge pudding

We were invited to Sunday lunch with some friends at the weekend, as Piers had a new toy to play with, and he wished to mandolin lots of potatoes to make a dauphinoise. It would have been churlish not to pop over and help them out with the consumption of same. So we did. As an…

rhubarb, rhubarb

A friend this morning very kindly brought me a huge box of rhubarb, as she has a glut of same on her allotment. I haven’t done much winemaking of late, but I shall be turning a goodly portion of this rhubarb into alcoholic beverage, because rhubarb wine is just gorgeous. I’m going to try this…

roasted veg

We love roasted veg, but for some reason we haven’t had them for ages and ages, so I rectified that last night. I cut up a courgette, a red pepper, a red onion, half of a huge sweet potato and about four carrots, tossed them in olive oil, then … looked at them for a…

Sunday dinner from leftovers

As my loyal reader will recall, we had roast belly pork for New Year’s Eve dinner; it must have a hulking great porker, because not even our well known for trenchering friends could finish it off, and I put the remainder in the freezer. I pulled it out of the freezer this morning, together with…

when the off licence gives you rhubarb …

We have a wonderful off licence in our village – we go in there and order wine, they deliver it, we give them a cheque. Works beautifully. I popped in there last week, and they asked where P was – “planting a rhubarb crown”, I said. Which he was. At which point, they invited us…

rhubarb crumble

As always, bits of this are fairly random.  Serves 4 if they’re not overly greedy. Take 3 good sticks of rhubarb, clean, trim, and chop into chunks.  I do mine in different sizes so you get a different texture when it’s cooked.  Some might say this was accidental, but it’s not.  No really. Put into…

Sunday supper

As previously noted, we picked up the first local asparagus of the year on Saturday; with it, we cooked one of our favourites – asparagus stir-fried with ginger and red chilli. It sounds a terrible thing to do to fresh asparagus, I know, but trust me … it really is glorious. We followed this with…