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.
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. 
Jem wrote:
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.
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.Sounds like a plan, Jem; from what little I know (I am no gardening expert) ensure fence is south-facing and gets all the sun (obv) and good, Levington growbags with Suttons grafted plants, securely staked, well watered and regularly side-shooted, should go like the clappers?
(I'd be surprised if rabbits went for tomato plants but I don't actually know tbh)
Mmm, the smell from tomato plant leaves. Bring on the summer.
We should have a gardening / home growing thread.
We should have a gardening / home growing thread.
Do mine in a greenhouse, the grafted plants are usually good had years where I was supplying 2 house each side of me with cucumbers for a month and still had too many
Also found you can get unlucky with either a weak plant or bad graft, had a variety of small cucumbers last year and whilst I got fruit, it was not as good as previous years.
Also found you can get unlucky with either a weak plant or bad graft, had a variety of small cucumbers last year and whilst I got fruit, it was not as good as previous years.
Zardoz wrote:
Mmm, the smell from tomato plant leaves. Bring on the summer.
We should have a gardening / home growing thread.
We should have a gardening / home growing thread.
Might consider growing stuff at the new house (we move house this weekend), depending on light, soil etc.
But realistically probably won't!
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.
But realistically probably won't!
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.
Curiosity wrote:
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.
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, ground black pepper 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.
Cavey wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
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.
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.Yeah, we often have salmon with cous cous and roasted cherry tomatoes. Healthy and delicious!
*eats microwaved chicken slice from The ASDAs*
Bobbyaro wrote:
You should cook them in a sous vide.
Don't reckon that would work (not that you were being serious.) You need some Maillard reaction and to boil some of the water out.
I was with Jem at the big water reservoir/pond type thing in Telford the other week and started talking loudly about making duck soup.
I got one hell of a Mallard reaction.
kill me now
I got one hell of a Mallard reaction.
kill me now
Curiosity wrote:
Cavey wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
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.
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.Yeah, we often have salmon with cous cous and roasted cherry tomatoes. Healthy and delicious!
One of my favourite dishes is roasted salmon (with sliced chorizo layered on top because have we met?) with cous-cous that has tons of raw veg through it. I usually do olives, cucumber, tomatoes, avocado, and celery.
That sounds awesome, Cras.
Chorizo and salmon ... sounds intriguing and excellent. May well give that one a go.
Chorizo and salmon ... sounds intriguing and excellent. May well give that one a go.
Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.
Pfft. You haven't tried Mrs C's rather excellent Waldorf salad.
Objection! Salad
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.
I'm not a salad sort of guy, but I do enjoy celery sticks with houmous (hummus?).
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.
x 936 Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.
Or it can get cooked of course.
Cavey wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.
Mrs C's rather excellent Waldorf salad.
Title!
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.
It's not like you notice it as anything but crunch once it's in with everything else.
ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.
Or it can get cooked of course.
Acceptable. I mean, as part of soffritto or the Cajun holy trinity. Celery soup can also fuck off.
Cras wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.
It's not like you notice it as anything but crunch once it's in with everything else.
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
Literally anything with celery or even celeriac in can get in the fucking bin. Raw or otherwise. Disgusting stuff.
I love celery.
Celeriac chips are a great low-carb alternative to the real thing.
You know what is an even better alternative? Death by starvation.
Lonewolves wrote:
Celeriac chips are a great low-carb alternative to the real thing.
Go fuck yourself
Lonewolves wrote:
Celeriac chips are a great low-carb alternative to the real thing.
Styrofoam is also a low-carb alternative to real chips.
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Celeriac chips are a great low-carb alternative to the real thing.
Styrofoam is also a low-carb alternative to real chips.
I guess so. Not great though.
Cras wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Celeriac chips are a great low-carb alternative to the real thing.
Go fuck yourself
You started it, celery boy
Lonewolves wrote:
Cras wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Celeriac chips are a great low-carb alternative to the real thing.
Go fuck yourself
You started it, celery boy
I quite like celery. FIGHT ME.
Cras wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Cras wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Celeriac chips are a great low-carb alternative to the real thing.
Go fuck yourself
You started it, celery boy
I quite like celery. FIGHT ME.
I've got no energy to fight you. No carbs remember
Probably because of all those celeriac chips.
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Acceptable. I mean, as part of soffritto
I/we find that the dry carrot/celery pulp byproduct from our little cold press juicer machine makes an excellent basis for soffritto.
Cooked celery is a disgusting, slimy mess. Raw is a delicious crunch.
Findus Fop wrote:
Cras wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Raw celery can get in the fucking bin, you monster.
It's not like you notice it as anything but crunch once it's in with everything else.
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
I have the same with cucumber.
Bobbyaro wrote:
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.
All the celery, all the time.
Celery is disgusting in all forms.
Cras wrote:
It's slightly unexpected that the cause of beex's final descent into internecine warfare is my inclusion of celery in dinner.
Is it, though?
Celery, in pretty much any form, is a good way to ruin a food.
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. 
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.
Cavey wrote:
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.
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.
To each their own, Mr Caveman.
Cavey wrote:
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.
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.
Cavey, that you have lovely food and take pride and pleasure in this, I don't think anybody doubts, but you are perhaps starting to come across as a bit obsessive in your knocking of other people's choices. This isn't necessarily odd in itself, apart from the fact that you have already had a knock at another forumite for obsessing (though I could see but two mentions at that point from him, perhaps a greater number from yourself) about your chillies and their origin.
You posted to deride Hearthly's meal, which I doubt he went to the trouble to put together just for the sake of offending your sensibilities. Yes, he mocked you a little, but your mentioning of his class and 'Farmfoods' seemed to be judgemental and, worse, looking to cause either hurt or a backlash. But nobody rose to that, just carried on with their discussion.
And that's where it all falls down. You wouldn't let go that nobody would raise to it, so you restate your derision of microwave rice and oven chips, or whatever. Then someone engages (Myp) and you find your opposition. You start with a 'yawn' because you are so bored of the argument that you've been pushing for already, to show how, though you are striving for it, it is beneath you and not worth your time. Then, as you finally have your opposition, you feel justified to unleash calling people's dinners and breakfasts 'shit' and saying you wouldn't feed that 'shit' to your dogs, to prove that those people's choices are not just beneath you, but beneath the diet of your pets, all the while under some belief that people are obsessing about your chillies. By and large you don't have a problem with people living off McDonalds and microwave chips... but in this instance you DO have enough of a problem to say that their food is so shit you wouldn't give it to your dogs. Why only take this view on this occasion?
Here, four pages on, after the conversation has moved on you are so spoiling for a reason to go over again you have to try and bring everything back around to oven chips and breakfast muffins. Why? You seem to wind yourself up more than anyone else. Some days it seems like you just enjoy being angry as it gives a false justification for writing nasty things.
If you are a nice guy in real life you can be just as nice here. The internet doesn't have to be full of anger and nastiness.
Cavey wrote:
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.
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.
Wow, way to yuck other people's yums.
Not yummy.
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