Archive for October, 2010

Apple and Beetroot Salad

At this time of year (mid October), we always seem to have a surplus of both apples and beetroot, particularly cooking apples. This recipe aims to use up some of this surplus in the form of a tasty starter dish that is both healthy and vegetarian. It can be made quickly and easily just before […]

The Benefits of Beetroot

Beetroot: How to cook it, grow it, store it, preserve it and if I could I would tell you how to eat it as well! Links to traditional and some new recipes are also given.

Green Tomato Chutney

At this time of year we usually have a fairly large number of green tomatoes left either in the greenhouse or on plants that have been grown outside. This year we grew a variety called “Tigerella” and we seem to have more than usual unripe fruit and so have decided to make green tomato chutney […]