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Roasted winter root vegetables with herb oil – ready to serve.   My first ‘Tunnel to Table’ recipe is a great favourite with all my family and with visitors too. We eat it a lot here because it’s so easy, delicious, ‘more-ish’ and goes with just about everything. Some of you may cook variations of this… Continue reading Roasted Winter Root Vegetables with Garlic, in Rosemary Oil – From Tunnel to Table!

  Easy ‘Make Ahead’ Red Cabbage Pickle Several people asked me for this recipe after seeing the picture in my December veg garden diary – so here it is! It’s incredibly easy to make, can be made days ahead of Christmas so takes a bit of pressure off, and it looks very festive as it’s… Continue reading Two Christmas Red Cabbage Recipes

First – a note about all my recipes     My very technical term  ‘ish’ (!) used when referring to an ingredient weight in any recipe means it’s really not critical to be exact about this. A little bit more is no harm – but less may naturally mean a bit less flavour. It’s whatever… Continue reading December Recipe – Mushroom and Cashew Risotto

I always make this very festive looking, multicoloured salad on St. Stephen’s or ‘Boxing’ Day – It’s one of those well-used family recipes that developed over several years – the idea started off with a carrot and orange salad which I ate at a wedding reception 30 years ago. Over the years since, I’ve gradually added bits and pieces… Continue reading Rainbow Red Cabbage Salad

  This is an utterly delicious and incredibly nutritious soup. It’s also extremely easy, you just can’t go wrong. Watercress is one of the most nutritious plants you can eat. Hippocrates was one of the first to recognise the potential health benefits of it – funny how it’s now being hailed as the latest ‘New Superfood’!  Seems to have taken… Continue reading Nicky’s Watercress and/or Landcress Soup

After you’ve been making your own milk kefir regularly for a while – you will inevitably end up with a larger amount of the grains, because if they’re happy, they increase in number quite quickly. When you have a lot, it can be more difficult to to get them to strain through the sieve as… Continue reading How to make Kefir Curd Cheese (or Labneh)

You’re getting 2 recipes for the price of one this month! Given that it’s coming up to Hallowe’en, I thought it would be appropriate to give you my version of pumpkin soup. Using pumpkins, onions and basil grown in the tunnel with my semi-dehydrated Rosada tomatoes as a pretty garnish.    And with a nod to my… Continue reading Sunshine Soup – ‘From Tunnel to Table’ recipes for October

Twice-baked 2 cheese souffles, served with a seasonal salad & semi-dehydrated Rosada tomatoes From the spring tunnel: I’ve used seasonal salads Ruby Chard, Oriental salads, lettuce, watercress, beet leaves, sorrel, Mizuna and thyme.  From the pantry: I’ve used some of last summer’s frozen, semi-dehydrated Rosada tomatoes and home-made Kefir cheese.   I’m also using my… Continue reading Twice-Baked, Two Cheese Souffles, with a Parmesan glaze & seasonal Salads – From Tunnel to Table recipe for Spring

  Kefir, blackberry , cherry & cinnamon smoothie Mixed leaf salad, crisped Black Forest ham lardons, sunflower seeds & kefir dressing Black & red raspberries with strawberries dipped in dark choc & strawberry kefir ice cream   Pictured above – Three of the many delicious ways to use milk Kefir     How to Make… Continue reading How to Make Basic Milk Kefir

Easiest Smoked Salmon Pate Ever! Served as a Festive Smoked Salmon & Watercress Layer Cake garnished with seasonal salads, as a dip with vegetable crudites or on mini cocktail ‘blinis’. Using seasonal produce from the tunnel – Watercress, spinach, a variety of lettuce, celery, spring onions, purple carrots, Pink Dragon Oriental radishes, Welsh onions, ruby chard… Continue reading From Tunnel to Table Christmas & New Year Recipe