Fruits of our labour

This week has been all about fresh fruit in my household. After weeks of being tantalisingly green our homegrown tomatoes have finally ripened enough to eat – and they taste so good! These little beauties have been a real labour of love. They spent weeks on the kitchen windowsill requiring lots of gentle watering and transplanting into slightly bigger pots every few months.

At one point during the last few months you could barely move in the kitchen with all my teeny pots and trays of seedlings – much to the disgust of the OH.

Now that they are outside they are still taking some love to help them grow – they suddenly got huge very quickly and we needed hastily build a frame for them to climb up. They were worth all the care though, just to be able to bring them inside and have them as a little treat!

 

The OH and I were walking his family’s beautiful Border Collie last week when we discovered a massive hoard of brambles. Well, I’ve never been known to refuse a freebie so I got right in there. I filled every available carrier...err....yes even EMPTY UNUSED doggy bags. Don’t judge!

 When we got home we realised we had quite a lot of berries. About 3kgs. That’s a few berries. We decided the best way to use them up was to make tons of jam.

There are a few berries left so I have been looking at recipes online – apart from the obvious blackberry crumble – my favourites are blackberry sorbet and blackberry roulade.

Finally, the weekend involved more fruit – in the form of cocktails with some of the girls from work – a Strawberry Supernova counts as one of my five a day doesn’t it?

Until next time,

K x