I've been feeling fairly uninspired by knitting recently, but this has reignited my fire. New plan: bring the gardening inside in yarn form. I'm sure Andrew won't mind the odd woollen bee hive or pond around the place.
Tuesday 12 July 2011
New project?
This is brilliant. My two favourite things, gardening and knitting, all rolled into one. Who'd have thought it?
Monday 11 July 2011
101 things to do with rhubarb
Someone should write that book. I couldn't. I only know 2 things to do with rhubarb. Crumble and cake.
We've got a lot of rhubarb. Andrew's mum Sue bought us a rhubarb plant last year and after a year's wait it is now serving us very well. It's very nice being able to take home a big bunch of rhubarb every time we visit the allotment. It just keeps growing. The only problem is I have such a small rhubarb repertoire. It needs expanding. Suggestions welcome please.
Here's the crumble I made this evening, and a few weeks ago too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rhubarbcrumble_11396
It was delicious. Both times.
A few weeks ago I made a rhubarb cake with a crumble topping. It was also quite tasty. Fruity and moist and not too sweet. Here's a recipe that might be the one I used but I can't remember. I certainly didn't use a loaf tin though. http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/rhubarb-cake/
I had all sorts of trouble finding a cake tin of the right size. I ended up having to transfer the mixture out of a too-small tin into a too-big tin because, despite owning more cake tins than is strictly necessary for a household of our size, we didn't have the right one. I thought bigger was better than smaller. The cake was wide and flat but at least it didn't spill all over the bottom of the oven.
If anyone's got any good gooseberry recipes, those will be gratefully received as well.
We've got a lot of rhubarb. Andrew's mum Sue bought us a rhubarb plant last year and after a year's wait it is now serving us very well. It's very nice being able to take home a big bunch of rhubarb every time we visit the allotment. It just keeps growing. The only problem is I have such a small rhubarb repertoire. It needs expanding. Suggestions welcome please.
Here's the crumble I made this evening, and a few weeks ago too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rhubarbcrumble_11396
It was delicious. Both times.
A few weeks ago I made a rhubarb cake with a crumble topping. It was also quite tasty. Fruity and moist and not too sweet. Here's a recipe that might be the one I used but I can't remember. I certainly didn't use a loaf tin though. http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/rhubarb-cake/
I had all sorts of trouble finding a cake tin of the right size. I ended up having to transfer the mixture out of a too-small tin into a too-big tin because, despite owning more cake tins than is strictly necessary for a household of our size, we didn't have the right one. I thought bigger was better than smaller. The cake was wide and flat but at least it didn't spill all over the bottom of the oven.
If anyone's got any good gooseberry recipes, those will be gratefully received as well.
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