Recipes

Last week http://www.oakhavenhospice.co.uk managed to entertain many of you at their fantastic event held at the wonderful http://www.chewtonglen.com/ with the Green Goddess Diane Morgan. What an amazing afternoon and if you were lucky enough to go. You would have been given a little gift of tea jelly. I would like to help you make the most of this jelly. Naturally you can enjoy it with most game meats or even stirred into a duck gravy. Its can also be used as an alternative to jam! But as its almost Christmas how about a Martini? So here my recipe for the...

Pumpkin Jam 1 pumpkin chopped into one inch chunks and de-seeded (you should end up with about 2kg) 5 cloves crushed Large Pinch of ginger & cinnamon 2kg of sugar The juice of two lemons Place all the ingredients, except the sugar into the jam pan. Cook on a low heat until soft about 30 mins stirring all the time don’t let the pumpkin catch. Once the pumpkin starts to soften add the sugar. Once the sugar has dissolved bring all the ingredients to a rolling boil. The jam can take up to 20-30 mins to cook through from adding...

It drives me mad all those pumpkins going to waste come on everyone eat the pumpkin don’t let your hard work carving go to waste! Pumpkin & coconut soup (easy recipe) Pumpkin cut into chunks (about 800g) I tin of coconut milk 1.liter of vegetable stock 5 shallots chopped very fine. 5- 6 kaver lime leaves, small knob of fresh ginger chopped 2 cloves of garlic. 4 tablespoons of Rapeseed oil Chop up the mix spices and, add the pumpkin add ½ of the oil and mix it all together with your hands. Place in an oven proof dish cover...

Medlars The dark brown ones are the ones that have Belted. 1.5kg crab apples (you can omit these if your confident in setting the jelly)  2.5kg bletted medlars( ones that have gone soft and brown) 500g firm medlars 3 lemons 3 litres water 1.2kg granulated sugar (this can change you need to measure the amount of juice and add equal amounts of sugar so 1pt =1lb of sugar) The bletted medlars should be dark and soft before you start. Clean them by removing any stalks and leaves and chopping them in half. Remove any really obvious rotten bits. chop up...