FESTIVE FROLICS

No produce from the garden being used here.   Just to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and to say thank you for following me in my first six months of blogging!  (Be you in the UK, the Phillipines, Saudi Arabia, China, India, France or the States - how did that happen?!)

 

If you've time amongst the craziness here are a couple of sweet treats I can recommend if you've a little time spare in the kitchen.  Both should be on the BBC Good Food website.

 

These cute polar bear peppermint creams went down well with the children at the library where I work or if you want to amuse them before Santa arrives  have a go at some marshmallow snowmen!

 

 

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/polar-bear-peppermint-creams

 

Watch out for more recipes when the garden starts to grow in the New Year!

RICH PICKINGS!

Rich pickings from the freezer today as a delicious damson cobbler delights the tastebuds after the Sunday roast thanks to the windfalls bestowed on us by the generous owners of the plot where we garden.

 

 

 

 http://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/damson-cobbler/

 

SOMETHING FISHY'S GOING ON...

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Four easy steps and you have a simple supper full of goodness.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/843634/haddock-and-spinach-cheese-melt

COBBLER COBBLER...

 

Using the last leek in this Hairy Biker's cobbler.  Strange the emotions that accost you when you glance over a garden with scant produce - no longer needing your loving care, no longer providing something for tea each time you leave - apart from the sprouts that is and the spinach continuing to push its way through the frozen soil.

 

 

 

 

  

This recipe is the perfect antidote to the winter chills

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chicken_casserole_with_67654