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Fantastic flavour and texture. Strong flavour than butternut squash. Roasts beautifully!

I baked these two sourdough boules after Lucy @lucyantal.bsky.social suggested trying yoghurt whey. I used 600g whey and 187g water. Slightly gummy with a dense crumb, but a crisp crust and a pleasing sour tang. Toasts well too. Next time I’ll try just 200g whey.

Back at Ledgers Farm in Ringwould, Kent, for more fresh milk to make our Greek yoghurt 🥛 Remember door-to-door milk deliveries? Milk on tap is the next best thing, even if it's a bit of a hike from the front door!

It tastes so good! Definitely worth the small effort! 😋

My idea of comfort food De-lish 😋

Homeward bound, passing over the Austrian Alps. Mountain peaks just below the clouds - absolutely breathtaking.

Cats of Paros - found this one asleep on a stool in a boutique in Naoussa, quite unbothered by the shoppers. The cats rule here. #SaturdayCaturday ^. .^₎ฅ

We started with the dolmades at Kapari in Naoussa, Paros - vine leaves stuffed with rice and local herbs. One of those starters you’re still talking about after the meal. Worth going back for those alone. #DineOut

Finally, time out to relax and enjoy the last days of Summer I the Cyclades ❤️⛱️🏖️👙🩴🐬🪸⛵

In Paros, Greece. Tune in and drop out for the next few days. 🏖️ #FlowerReport

San Marzano Redorta filling the dehydrator shelves. A substantial tomato crop this year, grown almost entirely outside for the first time. The freezer’s already full of sauces to see us through to at least next spring, so we’re drying some of the rest.

The entrance to our allotment kitchen garden - an Aladdin’s cave of organically grown fruit, vegetables and herbs. #GYO

A hefty Greek heritage tomato from our allotment kitchen garden - deeply ribbed, wonderfully juicy and barely contained by two hands. Excellent roasted, though it’s hard to beat eaten raw with cucumber and a balsamic & dijon dressing. 🍅 #GardenSky

Feeling so grateful for all we have achieved here. I can't believe this is all our work. It's amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it.... And a little manual labour too! 😂😂😂🙏

The last of our organically grown Luneor courgettes, used in a new recipe: umami mushroom-stuffed yellow courgettes. Not a bad way to finish this year’s crop. #WhatsCooking ₊˚ʚ 🌱 ₊˚✧ ﾟ. 🍽️

Heritage tomatoes grown from seed from Paros Greece, thriving in this year’s Mediterranean-like temperatures on the Kent coast. Incredibly sweet and juicy - excellent in sandwiches or slowly cooked for breakfast. #harvest ｡‧˚ʚ🍅ɞ˚‧｡

What a wonderful harvest we are enjoying from our allotment. All that hard work is paying off 💪🌾🌽🍎🫜🤸😀

Harvest to plate. 🧺 This morning’s haul filled the trug with potatoes, chard, tomatoes, peppers, chillies, cucumbers, raspberries and basil. Not bad for a few hours of digging, picking and trying not to eat the raspberries on the way home. #GreenHeart 💚

Our latest recipe is heatwave-approved! 🥵🍒 We harvested our allotment-grown black cherries to churn this fresh black cherry vanilla ice cream. It’s the perfect reward for this hot weather. Is it ice cream for lunch weather where you are? 🍦 #SummerVibes

I entered my Teddy Bear 🧸sunflowers into the Sandwich in Bloom competition and came second. My Honeycomb tomatoes went one better and took first place. Well chuffed. 🌻🍅 #FlowerSky

Wrinkled, twisted and up to no good. 🌶️ #CarolinaReaper

𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫: 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝟐𝟔 🌶️ Week twenty-six. Now much bigger and moved into the polytunnel, where it’s enjoying the heat. Its first pepper has ripened to a deep red, ranging somewhere between 1.4 and 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units. Best admired carefully. #SeedToHarvest 👩‍🌾🌱

Mouth wateringly good 😊

Anthony Bourdain Day - Made his lemon and butter roast chicken with Pommes Anna. Sharp lemon, crisp potatoes, proper butter. A decent way to remember a man who knew food was never improved by bullshit. #BourdainDay

Very sad to hear that Clive Davis has passed away. When I moved to New York in 2003 and worked at Sony BMG, I was fortunate enough to cross paths with him almost daily. Tireless, passionate about music, and blessed with an extraordinary ear for talent. The man with the golden ears. #clivedavis

Happy Summer Solstice. This morning’s kitchen garden haul: elephant garlic, Romanesco courgettes and round Luneor courgettes. Not a bad start to the day. ☀︎⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ #SummerSolstice 🌞

@andyburnham.bsky.social If you can navigate the flurry of ministers desperately trying to keep their jobs, and not take any shit from them, you can make some real change. Use Labour’s majority to push through the changes the country voted for. #AndyBurnham

The Luneor courgettes are already coming thick and fast. First few are ready to pick this week. These ones won't be sliced. They'll be hollowed out, stuffed and baked whole. 🌱🥒 #kitchenharden

First blueberries ready this morning 🫐. Duke variety. Not the finest blueberry I grow, but they arrive before the others and this morning's crop is heading straight for my yoghurt. #kitchengarden

This week’s sourdough bake: a rustic country loaf at 81% hydration. A crisp, blistered crust and a soft, open crumb. Toasted and spread with Seville marmalade, it’s a killer combination. #Sourdough

Beauties from the allotment!

First Senshyu onions lifted, planted in September and worth the wait. Some real beauties among them. They’ll spend the next fortnight curing in the greenhouse, until the skins are papery and ready for storing. #kitchengarden 🧅🧅

A blue tit fledgling 🐦took an unscheduled trip out of its nest this morning. What followed was a race between my husband, Vincent, and Luna the cat to see who could reach it first. Thankfully Vincent won and the baby is back where it belongs. #birdsofbluesky

Broad beans this evening, podded straight from the allotment kitchen garden. Meatballs rolled beside me, basmati steaming slowly on the stove. Podding broad beans is either therapeutic or intensely irritating. Usually both. #KitchenGarden 🌞🌱👩‍🌾

Where I live, spring is all golden rapeseed fields and bluebell woods. Passed these beautiful fields of gold yesterday afternoon beneath a clear blue sky. Breathtaking. #fieldsofgold

Rhubarb and custard tartlets this week with Fultons Strawberry Surprise and Stockbridge Arrow rhubarb from the allotment. Poached rhubarb over vanilla set custard and a layer of rhubarb compote in sweet shortcrust pastry. Kept the sugar light and let the rhubarb do the work.

First of the early strawberries turning red now. Picked and eaten straight away. A few varieties cropping one after the other, a season that runs from these first handfuls through to the last pickings before frost. #KitchenGarden 🍓

Pink and white blossom 🌸 on my young Bramley apple tree.

We’re building a heavy-duty polytunnel from scratch on the allotment kitchen garden. The aim is simple: year-round organic produce and fewer reasons to rely on supermarkets. Cutting out the middleman starts in the soil. #KitchenGarden

A “miracle tree” can remove up to 98% of microplastics from drinking water, outperforming some chemical treatments. A plant doing what industrial processes struggle with. #Microplastics

Rhubarb from the beds to go with the forced - a good haul all round. #GreenHeart 💚

Nothing better than a freshly baked hot cross bun for breakfast. Happy Easter weekend friends ,🐣✝️🙌🐇

First strawberry flowers of the season. Vibrant is the variety, one of many we’re growing. I’m already thinking cheesecake and ice cream. #kitchengarden ₊˚⊹♡🍰🍓♡⊹˚₊

Given these three-cornered leeks by our friend Diana from her allotment, just in time for the spring equinox. Softer than wild garlic, with a clean, green bite. I’ll make a pesto later; the sort that tastes of damp soil warming and longer days ahead. #SpringEquinox 🌼🌗🍃🐝⟡˚ ݁⋆˖₊.𓂃

Luna in the daffodils, mildly inconvenienced when I tried to get her to look up. Totally not interested. #CatsofBluesky 🐈

End of Seville season. Last batch set last week. Doorly’s rum in some, Glenfiddich Scotch in others. Bitterness first, sweetness after. As it should be. 🍊🥃

Not Perseus with Medusa’s head. Just me, slightly muddy, holding up the tansy root I’ve dug out at the allotment. Dressed in my Sunday best and ready for battle, I was determined to lift this invasive brute from the bed once and for all. #AllotmentLife 👩‍🌾🪏

Good morning all 🌞