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    Chilled Green Gazpacho  Glazed Courgette & Lemon Dessert Cake Chilled Green Gazpacho garnished with edible flowers and to follow – Glazed Courgette & Lemon Dessert Cake served with a selection of mixed summer berries.  These recipes are perfect for a light, mid-summer luncheon in very hot weather! The gazpacho is very refreshing with it’s slight hint… Continue reading Chilled Green Gazpacho, with Glazed Courgette & Lemon Dessert Cake and mixed berries – From Tunnel to Table Midsummer recipe

Two low-carb, gluten-free, ‘Pioppi-Style’ pizzas – Caramelised Red Onion with Two Cheeses, & Margherita Two ‘Pioppi-Style’ pizzas – served with Purple Majesty potato wedges roasted in avocado oil. This recipe makes pizza healthy eating! I call them – ‘Pioppi-Style’ Pizzas – because this recipe was originally inspired by a one that I found in a fantastic new book on… Continue reading From Tunnel to Table Recipes for Autumn

Organic Blue Cheese, Pear, Watercress, Walnut & Pomegranate Seed Salad with my Special Dressing. Baked Organic Irish Brie with Crudites, Fruit, sourdough baguette or my Low-Carb, Multi-Seed Crispy Crackers Organic Blue Cheese, pear, walnut & pomegranate seed salad Baked Organic Irish Brie I used a wide variety of seasonal salads and vegetables from my polytunnel for… Continue reading Two ‘From Tunnel to Table’ Recipes for Christmas & New Year

 From Tunnel to Table recipe for Spring Cooked cannelloni just out of the oven and nicely browned Carb-free Cannelloni, with spinach, bacon and chestnut mushroom filling, in cheese sauce. This is a very healthy LCHF (or low-carb, high healthy fat recipe) – which I call “I can’t believe it’s not pasta!” – because it has all the satisfying and… Continue reading ‘I can’t believe it’s not pasta!’ – Carb-free Cannelloni with a spinach, bacon & chestnut mushroom filling, in a cheese sauce.

My version of a Spanish Tortilla with carb-lowered potatoes and my carb-lowered Potato Ratatouille The two delicious and useful recipes here both use pre-cooked and chilled potatoes, which are subsequently cooked again. This very easy cooking process is known as ‘Retrogradation’ – and can reduce the carbohydrate content of recipes by as much as 50%.  I… Continue reading My version of a Spanish Tortilla, using carb-lowered Potatoes – and Carb-lowered Potato Ratatouille. Two ‘From Tunnel to Table’ recipes for midsummer – using a process known as ‘Retrogradation’.

  1. From this – cubed courgettes, cherry tomatoes and mozzarella 2. To this. Raw cubed ingredients pressed down and drizzled with the Pesto sauce 3. And finally to this. If only you could smell this – piping hot and bubbling with deliciousness. Just out of the oven!   I’ve been trying to think up… Continue reading Courgette, Tomato, Mozzarella and Pesto Gratin – ‘From Tunnel to Table’ recipe for Autumn

 Garnished with pomegranate seeds and served with seasonal green side salad or Brussels sprouts  Potato, kale, Two Cheese and Walnut Bake – garnished with pomegranate seeds and surrounded by salad leaves Seasonal vegetables used from the polytunnel are kale, potatoes, red onions and garlic for the main dish, with a side salad of seasonal leaves including… Continue reading Potato, Kale, Two Cheese and Walnut Bake – ‘From Tunnel to Table’ Vegetarian recipe for Christmas.

      The seasonal vegetables I used from the garden and polytunnel were: Little Gem lettuce and garlic in the dressing – with eggs from our organic hens.  For the salsa I used a mixed selection of tomatoes, and basil – with some nice juicy fresh garlic cloves for rubbing onto the toasted Bruschetta   Both of… Continue reading ‘Incredibly Easy, Best Ever Caesar Salad Dressing’ and ‘Simple Tomato Salsa with Bruschetta’. My two ‘From Tunnel to Table’ recipes for Summer 2019

Warm Salad of Polytunnel Leaves – in a dressing of hazelnut oil, Highbank Orchard Syrup and cider vinegar, served with bacon lardons, apple wedges and toasted hazelnuts. From Tunnel to Table recipes for Autumn Easy to make, full of nutritious antioxidants and healthy phytonutrients to keep winter colds at bay. As usual all the ingredients… Continue reading Roast Red Onion, Red Pepper and Sweet Potato Soup.

Homegrown celery soup with homemade spelt bread, using outside and frozen stems from Green Utah Useful for using up frozen, or tough and stringy outside stems to prevent food waste.   If frozen, rinse  celery stems quickly in cold water to clean, then chop and blitz immediately before it thaws. Amounts are approximate, and not necessary to… Continue reading Easy Celery Soup