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Planting Garlic
Today has been beautiful outside, bright and dry and perfect for planting garlic. I have three different varieties to go out and hopefully they will all flourish and be ready from June onwards. The varieties are Garlic Jolimont, Garlic Cloves Purple White and Garlic Illico, this one can be used as ‘green garlic’ from May onwards. I hope that last summers garlic with last till then but I have my doubts it is getting pretty low now and I’m regretting not plant more last year. However it’s a learning curve and I have more than doubled the amount I am planting this year, having already put in some ordinary supermarket cloves too. The comparison will be interesting, supermarket v seed merchant. Garlic can be planted up to mid December so still time … Read entire article »
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Garlic
A couple of weeks back I dug up the garlic and left it in the shed to dried out. I wanted to try and plait it so I could hang it in the kitchen ready for use. Today I made my first attempt at plaiting having read up how to plait garlic on a blog by wwwgillybeansgardencom, many thanks for that. It only has to be good enough to hang in the kitchen, the main purpose is to use it. [Translate] … Read entire article »
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Volcanic Tom Yam
This soup is a panacea, a cure all, penicillin in the pot. This request is down the ‘hot and firery’ path. Since doing some research, there does seem to be the basic ingredients and then… well it s a mine field, personally i don’t eat meat so the pork or chicken is not going to go in my pot but you can easily incorporate these in yours, when you look at the fish its any and everything and i suppose is a matter of which you prefer. Prawns seem to be the more common so I have used this as the base of mine. You could try a firm fish such as monk fish or perhaps even crab claws or any combination. The amount of chili is also down to … Read entire article »
Potato Garlic and Cheese Soup
When you are short on vegetables, then here’s one to try. All you need are potatoes, onions and garlic, it can be dressed up in anything else, I’ve used fresh parsley but any herbs will lift it, if you don’t have herbs then maybe try a blue cheese such as Stilton, all you have to do is use your imagination and experiment. You will need the following 1 tablespoon of olive oil 1oz/25g of butter 1/2lb/225g finely chopped onions 1 large very finely chopped clove garlic 1 lb/450g peeled and chopped potatoes 2pts/l.2ltrs Stock White pepper 2oz/50grams cheese, either cream, or grated cheddar Parsley small bunch finely chopped Dried chili flakes (optional extra) Sauté the onions and garlic in the olive oil or butter over a very gentle heat until the onions become transparent. Add the potatoes and stir constantly for five … Read entire article »


