The passion and soul satisfying honest feeling of wondering down you garden and picking all your food for your totally self sufficient dinners is a glorious gift for all the growing, watering and nurturing of your vegetable beds. Walking out my door down my path and padding barefoot threw the grass to root around the vegetable beds for the best carrots, beetroots, leeks and marrows, then ambling off to the stored hessian sacks for this years potatos and short wonder into the orchard to pick a couple of apples for the apple sauce and for pudding to go with the plums and blackberries from the garden hedge then finally a loin of pork from last years pigs from the freezer along with a cube of home rendered lard completes the wholesome free garden shopping. This Sunday dinner was worthy of a champagne toast.
Gorgeous home reared roasted loin of pork with roasted beetroots, potatos, yellow and orange carrots, marrow, leek and courgettes. Served with garden apple sauce and bone stock gravy. The wonderful wholesome clean feeling every mouthful delivers elevates this humble simple roast dinner to a higher plane.
My home vegetable beds, so far we are completely self sufficient all year through with onions, carrots, chillies, tomato sauce and pasatta, beetroot, parsnips, leeks, corn, fennel, celery, herbs, apples, blackberries and plums. Seasonal only for cabbage, courgettes, squashes, salad, spring onions, radishes, tomatoes and herbs.
Love the garden encroaching on my front door step, growing extra pots of vegetables and salads on the door step brings my garden closer to my kitchen and brings a smile to my face every time I go in
or out.
Our wonderful hens, these ladies give us beautufil eggs and supply us with unlimited amusement everyday with their individual personalities and characters.
Sunday roast vegetables
No matter how small your garden is you can grow something, even if you grow your own chillies, spring onions and salad for the summer you are not only making a difference on the environment but in yourself too, home grown vegetables taste so much better and I like to think have more nutrients, no chemicals and bring a smile to your plate.
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