Horseradish sauce

I didn't plant this Horsedradish but decided to dig it up to see what's what.  

Interesting that something a bit ugly can turn into something so tasty.  I guess that in the-olden-days, people just sampled everything and found out which things tasted nice, and which things killed them.  They must have been very adventurous to have a go with a horseradish root - good decision though.

Dig . . .Peel . . .Grate . . Sour cream . . . .absolutely delicious

Rainy days and Mondays

Oh no, the scarecrow's face got a bit washed off in the rain.  Moved to greenhouse to prevent further deterioration until the  Scarecrow Builder returns with paintbox.

The scarecrow builder

Which one is the scarecrow and which one is the scarecrow builder?

Scarecrow

A present from Elisa to scare the crows away.  Hope it lasts through the winter till next year when I'll need to scare them away - and the pigeons of course.

Leeks for lunch

A few weeks out and about and everything seems to be in a state of disrepair.  

Leaves everywhere and not much growing except sprouts (ready in time for Christmas I hope), broccoli (still not to sure this is ever going to flower) and leeks, which are looking very nice indeed.  I think I should plant some more so we can have a regular crop over the winter.  Starting to get addicted to Leek and Potato soup off the BBC Website.

• 1 tbsp vegetable oil

• 1 onion, sliced

• 225g/8oz potatoes, cubed

• 2 medium leeks,sliced

• 1.2 litres/2 pints vegetable stock

• 150ml/5fl oz double cream or crème fraîche

• salt and freshly ground black pepper

More blackberries

I froze the first lot 'cos I'm not exactly sure what I am doing with them.  For the next harvest I'm going for a Blackberry and Apple Crumble.  Apparently very easy to make but we'll see.  

Apples courtesy of Loraine.  Picture of finished bake later on but, here's the foraged ingredients to be going on with. Hope there's enough, I'm not very good at guessing 300g.

The greehouse is finished!!

I don't like using exclamation marks so much, but I'm so chuffed that the greenhouse is actually built that I though a little exuberant punctuation was probably OK.

So, here it is, screwed down to the base and completely glazed (shout out to Colin for the loan of his drill).   

It would have been a complex 3D puzzle anyway but it was made worse by the gap in time from actually buying it to getting around to putting it together.  I had forgotten that a few sheets of glass were needed so that fooled me for a while. A quick trip to Abbey Glass for the last few panes and its done.

Not sure if I'll actually be putting anything in it until next year but I thought this view was rather nice on a sunny October day with a lovely reflection of the rest of the site.