Elderflower fritters
Elderflower fritters
Ingredients:
- 10 or so just picked heads of elderflower
- Tablespoon ground flaxseed mixed with 2 Tablespoons water
- 1 Cup of Soymilk
- Sugar
- Self raising flour
- Oil for frying
- Icing sugar for dusting
- Whisk together the flaxseed/water and soymilk
- Add few tablespoons of sugar to taste
- Add in self raising flour until batter is thick like pancake batter
- Heat oil in pan ready for frying
- Holding the elderflower stalks, dip each flowerhead in batter and fry on one side until fluffy
- Dust with icing sugar and...
Spaghetti Squash and sauce
Spaghetti Squash and sauce
Total Time: 1 Hours 20 Mins
Yields: Enough for 4 peeps
Ingredients:
- 1 large spaghetti squash
- 4 large onions, chopped
- 2 tins tomatoes, or fresh
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- Handful of chard, chopped up very fine
- Cup of sundried tomatoes, rehydrated and chopped into small chunks
- Veggie stock or celery salt
- Good handful of fresh basil leaves or dried
- Sprinkling of black olives and more basil to garnish
- Quarter the Spaghetti Squash and roast the in the oven at around...
Warming squash soup
Warming squash soup
Prep Time: 20 Mins
Cooking Time: 20 Mins
Total Time: 40 Mins
Ingredients:
- Veg oil
- 1 large onion
- 1 large squash (e.g. Uchiki kuri, blue or green Kuri squash, Crown Prince squash, few little Harlequin squash)
- Veg stock
- Paprika
- Sunflower seeds
- Pumpkin seeds
- Soy sauce or tamari
- Fry onions in veg oil in a deep pot
- Chop up the squash and lob in
- Turn down pot to a simmer and pour in veg stock
- Add some paprika (smoked paprika is nice if...
Mushroom apple stew
Mushroom apple stew
Prep Time: 30 Hours 0 Mins
Cooking Time: 45 Hours 0 Mins
Ingredients:
- Onion- maybe 3
- Portobello mushrooms- maybe 2
- Fennel seeds
- Oil for frying
- Potatoes- about 6
- Apple- about 3
- Vege stock- enough to cover potatoes
- Bay leaves
- Sage
- Fry onions and mushrooms in oil, and throw in a pinch of fennel seeds
- Take off the heat and add in chopped up potato and apple, bayleaves and lots of sage and simmer in vege stock until potatoes are soft
- Thats it!
Waterland’s finest brassica shoots
Waterland’s finest brassica shoots
From: Helen (that’s why there’s no measurements- sorry but it’s how I roll)
Prep Time: 3 Mins
Cooking Time: 10 Mins
Total Time: 13 Mins
Ingredients:
- Handful of Waterland’s finest brassica shoots for each person
- Chopped onion
- Clove or two of garlic
- Rapeseed oil
- Chinese five spice
- Pinch salt or a splash of soy sauce
- Twist of black pepper
- So chop your onion and garlic and cook til soft or however you like it in a bit of oil...
30th May Farm Day
A blog post about bikes, bees, borage and bloomin' weeds. Read more ...
Setting ourselves up for grain farming
We are really chuffed that with a grant gratefully received from Cambridge Sustainable City this year we were able to buy some essential kit for growing and processing grain crops at CropShare in the future...
Bees and seeds
Some words from Farmer Paul and Farmeress Doreen: "The sun is shining but don’t worry CropSharers, by Saturday we will have light cloud and a cooling breeze to stop you overheating whilst undertaking your agrarian toils...
Onions N Taters
We were greeted with Farmer Paul’s cheery instructions today – have a gander at them here, watch out for his Fenland humour!!
We sang Farmer Paul happy birthday too to embarass him. Happy Bday Paul!
So we got stuck in planting onion sets throught black biodegrable maizestarch plastic…
Here’s what Satowa thought of her day at the farm- thanks for letting us know Satowa!
“Everything I did was the first time for me, so I learned a lot....
Farmer Paul’s “pot noodle”
Farmer Paul’s “pot noodle”...