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By nariz

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I just took a wander down our garden while wondering what to do for dinner tonight – and there it all was! There’s plenty more produce to come, but tonight’s dinner will consist of a tomato and basil salad with corn-on-the-cob smothered in butter (of course!), a side salad of lettuce with French beans, mangetout and carrot sticks, and a dish of fried padron peppers, all washed down with a glass of local red wine. Mmmmm! Shame I can only share the pictures with you and not the meal itself. :o)

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Well done, Nariz ...
lots of lovely garden produce ...
Enjoy your meal ... :o)

18 Aug, 2011

 

As its cold and very wet today, we are having a cooked meal indoors Nariz, its good to see the rewards from your garden sitting in the sunshine near the lovely flowers, enjoy your meal, I`m wonderng whether to put the heating on for a while,(sigh).

18 Aug, 2011

 

Umm excuse me, but wheres the vino tinto?

Developed a passion for 'padron' whilst living in Gran Canaria with lots of salt.mmmmm

18 Aug, 2011

 

Nice yield! :)

18 Aug, 2011

 

TT: I WILL enjoy! Lincslass: Don't give up hope yet! There's more summer to come! Gannyb: Vino tinto's where every Spaniard worth his salted padrons keeps it - in the fridge! Pixi: There's more! :o)

18 Aug, 2011

 

How lovely to see such a rewarding harvest . . . and in bright sunshine too. Well done you!

18 Aug, 2011

 

hi its so nice to grow your own it taste so much better very well done :))

18 Aug, 2011

 

oh nariz :-( you made me very hungry; i love sweetcorn.

18 Aug, 2011

 

So do I Sticki, its made my mouth water Nariz just thinking about that lovely lush corn coated in hot melted butter and those from the supermarket aren`t in the one two three with that fresh from the garden.

18 Aug, 2011

 

oooh stroller now you have made it worse ~ dripping in melted butter!!
my mum was born in june and loves strawberries, i was born in september and love sweetcorn [im sure theydidnt used to come into the shops till september] do you think its a coincidence??

18 Aug, 2011

 

wonderful - I shall have to have ago at this gyo.

18 Aug, 2011

 

GYO is the only way to go! Soooooooo satisfying, :o)

19 Aug, 2011

 

Nice basket full of garden produce you have there, Nariz!

I've been picking potatoes, cucumbers, lettuces, raspberries & blackberries this week! Oh, did I forget to mention several kilos of green beans?!

With all the raspberries I've eaten during the last week I ought to LOOK like a raspberry by now! LOL!

19 Aug, 2011

 

Lol.

20 Aug, 2011

 

That basket is lovely too, do they make them locally?

20 Aug, 2011

 

No, Sticki, we bought that in Javea 'dahn sarf.' The baskets here are made with wide reed and are very expensive for what they are - and not very robust for their use. They seem to be more for tourists than farmers these days.

20 Aug, 2011

 

Lucky you .Love the "padrons". Never seen them in England .

20 Aug, 2011

 

Mmmm.... I've only managed a few potatoes this year...but next year it will be beans, squash, swt. corn and carrots. Have plans to build a carrot bed...(It's sandy loam with not too much compost, as it makes the carrots rooty...but dug very deep..18 to 24 inches, with good drainage beneath...carrots are so easy to pull and they (Nantes or Chantenay) grow long, slender and sweet! That's if you don't have a hubby like mine who adores the "baby" size carrots...wrapped in a cocoon of foil..sprinkled with butter and salt...and placed on the barbeque to caramelized in their own juice...!

28 Aug, 2011

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