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One of my favourite BBQ party pieces is to butterfly a leg of lamb and marinade it for BBQing, as the leg has been reduc ...

Last year my Uncle and Aunt offered me the pears left on their tree at the end of the summer. I made them in to spiced p ...

When I was young we used to grow all our vegetables at home and my grandfather used to have some very good tricks. His b ...

For the last couple of years I have had a polythene greenhouse in the garden, but sadly it didn't survive this year. Kin ...

The hedgerows are currently full of ripe and juicy blackberries, so it is time to make some of my glorious hot hedgerow ...

Shop bought mango chutney is often very sweet, and doesn't taste of mango. This recipe has large strips of real mango in ...

This year looks as if it will be just as good for sloes as last year, and when there is a bumper crop of sloes the best ...

A week or so ago I made a large batch of passata. One of the things that I make with passata is tomato ketchup, and as m ...

As autumn approaches it is time to preserve as much of that fresh grown goodness as possible. Pickled beetroot is one of ...

This weekend my neighbours harvested their cooking apple tree and they gave me a couple of bags brimming with them. I pa ...

It's time for another BBQ, and today I decided to bbq a few of the vegetables that I recently harvested... Ingredients A ...

This week has seen a few changes in the garden - the runner beans and sungold tomatoes had reached the end of their prod ...