First I must apologise for not having posted in a while. The truth is that I've been unwell and have had to concentrate on getting well though this has meant a great deal of cooking! I hope that leaving you all in the lurch 9 days before Christmas wasn't too much of a let down. I have also decided that my blog will focus on frugal cooking for a while - just to make this really difficult I do not intend to drop my ethical position on food production.
Right now we are in the middle of the "Hungry Gap" the period when home grown food is sparse and this presents an interesting set of problems to the food-mile conscious cook. Let's not panic and charge out to buy asparagus form South America and mange tout from Kenya. Let's revel in what we have: wonderful sweet roots asking for cumin and chilli, beautifully rich brasicas begging for bacon and butter, and leeks crying out for a cheese sauce.
I'd love to claim the recipe on the following link was mine but it came in a little booklet with my veg box this week - it was wonderful and, as with many curries, even better heated up a day later. I served it with cous cous.
www.abelandcole.co.uk/recipes/swede#recipe10
The other side of this time of year is thinking about what will grow in my "postage stamp" garden. This week I planted chilli plants in my hot box. The varieties are: Apache, Cheyene, Jalepeno, De Cayenne, Joe's Long (25-30cm long chillies!) and a "Hot stuff mix." On the basis that I'm still using last summer's dried chillies we should be full of heat through next winter.
I shall write again soon.
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