Once we hit about March, the front garden and the back half of the back garden get a LOT of sun. My problem is more the rabbits that I have free ranging in the back garden in all weathers Little buggers destroyed all my strawberry plants. To get round that, I'm thinking I might line the wall in the front garden with grow bags and grow up the dividing fence.

Mmm, the smell from tomato plant leaves. Bring on the summer.

We should have a gardening / home growing thread.

Am currently making more food though. Current favourite snacking food is getting a shitload of cherry tomatoes, cutting them in half and roasting them at a low heat for a while, with some salt, pepper and a drop of balsamic.

Make for excellent snacking food. So full of flavour. Om nom nom.

One of my faves! Try roasting them whole, on the vine, with cracked sea salt and good olive oil drizzled on (ideally with a nice, whole wild-caught seabass whilst you're at it, with caper fruits and good green and black olives thrown in as well ) Heaven.

You should cook them in a sous vide.

Yeah, we often have salmon with cous cous and roasted cherry tomatoes. Healthy and delicious!

Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.

Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.

Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.

Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.

Mrs C's rather excellent Waldorf salad.

Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.

Or it can get cooked of course.

It's not like you notice it as anything but crunch once it's in with everything else.

Celeriac chips are a great low-carb alternative to the real thing.

Celeriac chips are a great low-carb alternative to the real thing.

Styrofoam is also a low-carb alternative to real chips.

Go fuck yourself

You started it, celery boy

I quite like celery. FIGHT ME.

Acceptable. I mean, as part of soffritto

Disagree, I find its taste incredibly strong, overpowering almost.

Maybe it's one of those Asparagus Conundrums*, where some people can smell it in their wee, and others can't.

*scientific term

Cooked celery is a disgusting, slimy mess. Raw is a delicious crunch.

It's slightly unexpected that the cause of beex's final descent into internecine warfare is my inclusion of celery in dinner.

Gah. You haven't tried a buttermilk dressing Waldorf salad with a Pimms, in the garden with friends, on a perfect, warm, late May afternoon, lovely crunchy celery and all? Then you haven't lived. Everything in its place etc.

Put it this way, it sure as hell beats the crap out of oven chips and microwave rice pouches in front of the TV (or indeed faux McMuffins for that matter), that's for sure.

Gah. You haven't tried a buttermilk dressing Waldorf salad with a Pimms, in the garden with friends, on a perfect, warm, late May afternoon, lovely crunchy celery and all? Then you haven't lived. Everything in its place etc.

Put it this way, it sure as hell beats the crap out of oven chips and microwave rice pouches in front of the TV (or indeed faux McMuffins for that matter), that's for sure.

Gah. You haven't tried a buttermilk dressing Waldorf salad with a Pimms, in the garden with friends, on a perfect, warm, late May afternoon, lovely crunchy celery and all? Then you haven't lived. Everything in its place etc.

Put it this way, it sure as hell beats the crap out of oven chips and microwave rice pouches in front of the TV (or indeed faux McMuffins for that matter), that's for sure.