Gardener’s guide to gluts: 10 things to do with courgettes (zucchini)

September 2, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

This summer I have become a woman possessed. What started out as casually bringing a few courgettes along on playdates as a novel hostess gift culminated last week in me landing a rather shocked friend with a massive amazon box full of marrows and courgettes. It was so heavy I couldn’t even carry it, I […]

Late summer foraging: elderberries for cordial and sauce

August 28, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

I’ve been keeping a secret from you. One lovely summery day in early June, my sister and her boyfriend came to stay and we decided to make elderflower champagne. We’ve got multiple elder trees and it seemed like quite a lovely thing to do with our DFL (“down from London”) family now that we were […]

Summer recipe: courgette and mint soup

August 24, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

I grew up in Portugal and there, we believe that soup is important. It’s practically a sixth food group all of its own. In winter here in the UK I’ve brainwashed Mr Land and the children into believing that a hot bowl of soup before dinner every day is the norm. In truth, it’s so […]

How to make sugar-free strawberry ice lollies for children

July 7, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

I’ve always tried to incorporate our own produce into my cooking but there are times where what we get from our tiny garden sadly just isn’t enough for any one project. Take, for example, strawberry ice pops. I like to make homemade ice lollies for GarlicBoy so that I can let him eat his fill […]