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- Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:55 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Sweet Dumpling and Rolet Squashes
- Replies: 9
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Harvesting Sweet Dumpling
I think you will certainly enjoy your Sweet Dumpling. When roasted the flesh tasted very similar to baked chestnuts. I've always left my Sweet Dumplings on the vines until virtually all the leaves have withered and as they get riper the green stripes start to appear. By this time the skins should be...
- Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:57 am
- Forum: Readers Recipes
- Topic: Plum Jam
- Replies: 22
- Views: 21108
Plum jam not setting
How disappointing for you!. In my early married life we once made 25 lbs of marmalade which didn't set so I tried every trick in the book to try rectify my mistake ! How long did you boil it for, and did you use the traditional method boiling on a hob or in a microwave? Do you have a microwave? If s...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:00 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Hedgehogs.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4223
hedgehogs
Last week spotted the first hedgehog in our garden that we've seen for several years. Have put out lots of meaty catfood to try and encourage it to become a regular, but all the foxes seem to have arrived first and gobbled it up.
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:52 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Purple carrots
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1675
Purple carrots
Yes, I got a freebie packet too. Germination was very poor due to the freak weather conditions, but have now cropped a few and the flavour is certainly mind blowing. Did carrots always originally taste like this or have we become so used to eating tastless supermarkets carrots that we've forgotten w...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:47 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Hello - another new person
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7850
Great site
Have just discovered Kitchen Garden Magazine,(courtesy of Daily Telegraph) and this this forum. Now I can sneak away and enjoy hours of pleasureable websurfing during winter evenings while my husband watches football on TV !! Nice to feel I'll be in the company of unknown friends who share my veggie...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:31 pm
- Forum: Readers Recipes
- Topic: Plum Jam
- Replies: 22
- Views: 21108
Plu,m jam
Jams & marmalades can be made easily in the microwave. A LARGE bowl or casserole two or three times as large as the volume of jam /marmalade should be used and small quantities made at a time. Remember that when you add the sugar to the boiled fruit, the bulk will double. Recipes made in the mic...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:26 pm
- Forum: Readers Recipes
- Topic: Sweet Chilli Sauce
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2658
Sweet Chilli Sauce
Am new to this marvellous site. Have have lots of Hungarian Wax chillis ripening. Can anybody please give me a home tested recipe for sweet chilli sauce. Thanks.
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:12 pm
- Forum: Cooking tips
- Topic: Red Currants
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7749
Red currants
I use my surplus soft fruit to make fruit syrups which are delicious in winter as a hot drink with a slice of lemon or for pouring over ice cream and puddings. Use virtually any combination of blackberries, raspberries, red, black or white currants. Simmer the fruit & strain through a jelly bag ...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:59 pm
- Forum: Cooking tips
- Topic: Green peppers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4379
Green peppers
I find green peppers rather tart and I do know a lot of other people who feel similarly. Could you let them ripen, then they can be sliced up and cooked with tomatoes, onion & garlic to make a splendid pepperonata sauce which can be used fresh with pasta, or mixed into a minced beef & chilli...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:54 pm
- Forum: Cooking tips
- Topic: Beetroot
- Replies: 39
- Views: 25915
Beetfoot
We tend to enjoy ours quite simply, serving them freshly cooked with egg and bacon for breakast.
But has anybody else noticed that too much beetroot tends to have a rather laxative effect in the bathroom department ??
But has anybody else noticed that too much beetroot tends to have a rather laxative effect in the bathroom department ??
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:45 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Dead Sparrow
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9218
Dead Sparrow
Oh dear - I'm afraid this is just part of having a cat and if you've already attached a bell on the collar you've probably done as much as you can do, apart from not letting your cat out in the garden in the early morning when the birds are at their most hungry and needing to feed. I had a cat who o...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:50 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Beans for hot weather
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3775
Beans for hot weather
Most of my runner bean flowers failed to set in July because of the heatwave but now the weather is getting cooler some are coming. However, for the first time this year I grew some Thompson & Morgan Blauhilde purple podded climbing beans. They didn't fail in the heat at all and are still croppi...