BeBe’s Gazpacho
BeBe’s Gazpacho
From: My housemate BeBe š
Prep Time: 1 Hours 30 Mins
Cooking Time: 20 Mins
Total Time: 1 Hours 30 Mins
Yields: Enough for 4 bowls
Ingredients:
- 2 ridge cucumbers
- 10 or so large tomatoes
- Few cloves garlic
- Mint leaves
- Splash olive oil
- Salt n Pepper
- Using a blender makes it easy as.
- Roast the tomatoes in the oven until soft and peel off the skins – normally I wouldn’t recommend to do this fussy step but its easy and makes a...
Growing grain- small scale experiments in cereals
We’re near to harvest of our grain crops on the farm at the mo. Farmer Paul sowed a selection of grains last autumn that we are planning to harvest by hand. Here’s what we got:
Were most excited about growing Old Burwell – an old and rare variety of wheat sourced fromĀ Brockwell BakeĀ and being bulked as part of the British Isles Community Grain Association.Ā As we are only a few miles from Burwell itself it should...
Adventures with woodchip
We love woodchip! 2016 has seen a few experiments on the farm with woodchip- our new mulching materialĀ thanks to a local tree surgeon.
You know I love a good mulch right.
Lots of benefits of mulch- the ones I’m interested in are keeping down weeds and keeping in moisture. We’ve tried mulching the polytunnel paths this year with cardboard or old potato bags laid down first, then covered with woodchips that are quite fresh, i.e....
Carrot top pesto pasta with roasted carrots
Carrot top pesto pasta with roasted carrots
From: Helen- sorry I don’t measure anything
Prep Time: 20 Mins
Cooking Time: 20 Mins
Total Time: 30 Mins
Yields: Enough for four peeps
Ingredients:
- Big bunch of carrots with tops on
- Few handfuls pine nuts, cashews, whichever nuts ya fancy or have in the cupboard
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
- Cooked pasta to serve
- Food processor makes this a breeze
- Top the carrots and give em a scrub.