A welcome new recipe now we are well into the fourth month of runner beans. My mum passed away recently, and I while I was sorting through her things, I found a clearfile of recipe cuttings going back decades. In it is an article on scarlet runners by Martin Bosley from the Feb 23 2008…
Tag: autumn garden
Peppers, smoked fish, potatoes and red pepper cream sauce
These stuffed peppers have all the smoked fishy, creamy potato comfort of a fish pie but with the added smooth, luxurious sweetness of red peppers. I have adapted this recipe from Julie Buiso’s beautiful book Take a vine ripened tomato. I switched it from being a Spanish tapas style dish, that uses multiple small red…
Minestrone
minestrone Our autumn garden is on the cusp of summer and winter. The runner beans are finally on their last legs (they have been pumping out beans since mid-December). I picked the last of them this morning ahead of heavy rain, along with the ripening tomatoes which would have split in the rain. The rainy…
Ratatouille
ratatouille This fragrant and velvety late summer autumn vegetable stew has a knack to it. If you aren’t careful you end up with a uniform vegetable mush, or else a collection of vegetables floating in a watery liquid. The knack is to get rid of all the moisture from the tomatoes and other veg without…
food ripe from my garden 