How are the veggies coming along?

[sime42]

 

Grown outside, towards the middle of October. It's wrong. But they tasted good.

 

 

[AHPP]

Just dug these up from 4’x4’ in the tunnel. Leaves spent most of the time swamped by collapsed tomato plants. No earthing up. Can’t even remember what I put in to start them but it won’t have been much. What a result. 
 

 

[sime42]

Result indeed. How are you going to cook them the first time? Suitably ceremonially hopefully. 

 

 

[AHPP]

I want to try some kind of sliced then baked thing but my oven is rubbish. Spills loads of heat out the door. Wasteful.

 

Maybe some kind of posh tater tot. Some blokes that run some restaurants in London (Fallow, Roe, Fowl) have pushed the recipe in front of me on facebook a few times.

Edited October 26 by AHPP

[5thelement]

On 26/10/2025 at 22:16, AHPP said:

I want to try some kind of sliced then baked thing but my oven is rubbish. Spills loads of heat out the door. Wasteful.

 

Maybe some kind of posh tater tot. Some blokes that run some restaurants in London (Fallow, Roe, Fowl) have pushed the recipe in front of me on facebook a few times.

I had mashed potato in Italy once, they had crumbled black pudding made from wild boar in with it, off the chart good. 

[5thelement]

Back from the UK and collecting the last of the chillis before the weather turns. 
I’ll thread them and dry them above the woodburner. 

[sime42]

Lots of jam there. Even more when I mix them with Quinces.

 

 

 

Impressive size to some of them this year. Also. See the ladybird hiding in the smaller one. There were many like that. 

 

 

[nepia]

I have a couple of kilos to deal with tomorrow - they'll make jelly - with another kilo of less ripe ones bletting.

Should be a laugh; me and cooking go together like strawberries and axle grease.

[sime42]

Great, we can compare notes!

 

Jelly is a more accurate description, you're right. I drain the juice out through a Muslim net after stewing. They're such knarly things, you need to really.

 

 

[Mesterh]

On 02/11/2025 at 15:58, 5thelement said:

Back from the UK and collecting the last of the chillis before the weather turns. 
I’ll thread them and dry them above the woodburner. 

Nice, we seem to have quite a decent crop of chillies too. I think they are scotch bonnets, prairie fire cilli, maybe, and some other one which I can't remember the name of. Need to get them hung and dried before they start to rot! 

 

Has anyone had any luck in managing to keep the plenty alive over the winter?