Christmas pud essentials

Chicken stew with fish fingers

This is a Goan insoupation

Sloe gin making

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Some pics from September fruit picking in Wales

My mum's vegetable patch
I thought this was my Dad but it's actually me looking for plums (below), with Meg lurking round the side in case a stick tries to get past her

Steak, mash, spicy cabbage, jerusalem artichoke, mushroom and peppercorn sauce, with roasted globe artichoke

This was a taste sensation. I got quite a few ingredients in from the alloty:

• Potatoes (mashed)
• cabbage (sauted with our red chillies, salt and black pepper)
• Jerusalem Artichoke (boiled and roasted crisps)
• Globe artichoke (oiled, garliced and lemoned, then roasted in tin foil for an hour (Pinchmysalt style)
• and garlic in the sauce I suppose

Very tasty meal