This summer we had an excellent crop of beetroot. Grown from seed and planted into a relatively new garden bed they quickly grew fat. I decided to pickle most of them as I didn’t want them to suddenly bolt in this extreme summer heat. I left some in the ground, stored some in the fridge […]
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Make your own apple cider vinegar Part two
I figured it was time I got around to straining off my apple cider vinegar. See Make your own cider vinegar Part one. Well over a year has passed since I had put it down and it was a grey and rainy Sunday, just perfect for mucking around in the kitchen. My old flagon bottles […]
Bottling Beetroot
I gathered up the last scraggy beetroots from my summer garden and bottled them today. I preserved the main crop about a month ago. These were the ones that weren’t big enough then. They still haven’t grown much but needed to come out of the ground. I buy beetroot from the vege shop all year […]
Pickled Gherkins
Every couple of years I make sure to grow between eight to twelve plants of gherkin cucumbers and pickle enough gherkins for about three years worth of eating. They are one of the easiest vegetable plants to grow and they produce prolifically. It takes some commitment to be around during January and early February. This […]
Make your own apple cider vinegar Part one.
Every year, when the apples are ripening and falling off the trees faster than they can be eaten or bottled or given away it’s the time to turn some of them into apple cider vinegar. Apple Cider vinegar is touted as an amazing cure-all by many. Unfortunately there is a dirth of research, yet I […]