Monthly Archives: March 2012

Puttanesca

I cook pasta at least once a week, actually that sentence should probably read I cook Pasta Puttanesca about once a week.  I cook pasta more often but serve it with different sauces on the other days.  Puttanesca, or prostitutes pasta if … Continue reading

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Value Space Rating – Summer’s Top 5

Ever since Mark began posting about Value Space Rating or VSR I have been giving some thought to how it works in my garden.  So in the fine tradition (or in the true nerdish style depending on your attitude to … Continue reading

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Monday Harvest – 12th Mar 2012

This weeks harvest is more of the same with a couple of different things thrown in for good measure.  To start with the different, I harvested my first lot of beetroot since Spring. 3 Chioggia beetroot, a golden one and … Continue reading

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This Summer’s Beans

I love beans, in some ways they are the quintessential summer vegetable, as they are one of the relatively few veg I really only ever eat at this time of year.  I tend to favour rounded dwarf bush bean varieties … Continue reading

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Dead ‘orse

I have been preserving tomatoes this week.  Not my tomatoes, my father’s, so I have given this post his name for tomato sauce.   My dad always used to call tomato sauce dead horse – I suspect he’s not alone in this, … Continue reading

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