Christmas this year was gloriously full of good food and great foodspiration, Santa happened to bring me River Cottage Veg , Nigel Slater's Tender vol 1 and 2 as well as The Edible Garden by Alys Fowler .... So I'm gearing up to buy my seeds for my veggies, but as I moved house at the end of the summer I have a lot of work to do; clearing and levelling off my veg patch and building a retaining wall where I'll be excavating a bank of soil. Hopefully all that can be completed for March so that I can get planting, but I'm not alone, some wonderfully kind friends have offered/ been coerced to help me (thank you).
So foodsparation updates; I made Hugh Fernley-Whittingstal's swede and potato pasties on Monday, delicious, and having dragged my self back to work yesterday I was slightly cheered up by the pasty I brought with me for lunch. I had rather a lot of broccoli that, as my mum would say, needed eating, so Nigel Slater provided me with a great recipe for broccoli soup, made with broccoli, bacon, potatoes, milk and pork stock and finished with crispy bacon on top. And I made a quick batch of a favourite of mine before work, Gordon Ramsey's wholemeal blueberry muffins, great for breakfast.
And finally ..... Christmas dinner was a success, the crackling was crispy everything was timed well enough to fit in the oven (note to Mr Gower, next kitchen we have we need 2 ovens!) and my stuffing was a triumph, I used this recipe from Delicious magazine (click here) and made it the day before and stuck it in the fridge, by doing this I really got all those flavours in to the pork and breadcrumbs, I will definitely be making it again, along with the plum crumble and Mary Berry's proper custard.
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