Food

[CanadianStraps]

Horse chestnut. Not as popular as sweet chestnuts, but with proper prep/roasing they are lovely and quite versatile.

[Seriously]

Love conker season

I had a bad case of conkers last month ....., boy did it hurt

I'm a stew.

What like Family guy Stew ??

[Henry Krinkle]

DLT. Crisped (homemade) duck prosciutto, garden lettuces and tomatoes on ciabatta roll.

[geoffbot]

Dlt love it! Though should it not be DBLT?

[whatmeworry]

Horse chestnut. Not as popular as sweet chestnuts, but with proper prep/roasing they are lovely and quite versatile.

And very easy to find at the right time of year, I remember many happy hours foraging for them in rural Berkshire with my grandparents

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[skywatch]

Horse chestnut. Not as popular as sweet chestnuts, but with proper prep/roasing they are lovely and quite versatile.

Really? We have a bunch of those in the hills. I thought they were not edible. Now I'll have to do some research, as they are certainly abundant.

Hmm... nope. Quick research indicates that horse chestnuts (conkers) are indeed toxic. Are you finding the spikey cased ones (edible) or smooth ones (toxic). Unless you have some secret for making them non-toxic?

http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/whats_t...weet_chestnuts

http://www.quirksee.org/2013/10/25/r...orse-chestnut/

[geoffbot]

Lemon juice neutralises it. Been eating them for years.

[Raza]

Brunch yesterday. Crab eggs Benedict.



Not pictured, but also present: smoked bacon, Tudor Black Bay.

[Henry Krinkle]

Dlt love it! Though should it not be DBLT?

I think DLT just sounds better.

[Henry Krinkle]

Third batch of tomato processing. The previous batches involved the golden pear tomatoes and medium sized regular tomatoes. Today's batch is the first half of the martini tomatoes, which are a heritage roma style tomato. There are about 12-15 pounds of them.

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I call this Daddy's Little Helper. When finished it will be somewhere between a passata and tomato paste, though closer to a passata. With a couple of bulbs of hard neck garlic and several onions, plus thyme and a golden cayenne, it should be a blast of flavour. After running it through the food mill, I'll add fresh basil and then put it up in half cup jars.

The only things not directly from my garden in this are the EVOO, pink salt and the vodka, though the vodka is local.

Just about to go into the water bath. The flavour is very nice- rich, concentrated and spicy and yet still fresh. I love what cayenne does to fresh tomatoes.