Category: Recipes

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

Broccoli, tomato and parsley frittata Watercress, mushroom and bacon frittata This month I’ve made Fritattas – a kind of Italian omelette which you can put virtually anything into. Almost more like a quiche without the pastry – they’re not as fast as a French omelette, as they’re cooked very slowly over a low heat. In all… Continue reading Frittata with anything else you like! – ‘From Tunnel to Table’ recipe for March

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)

    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.