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Chutney, Pickle, Jam, Jelly, Marmalade, Ketchup!
Some of you may know I’ve been working on produce for my day manning a stall of my own on the Real Food Market at Covent Garden (27th August). These pictures are just a small selection from two...
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Hot Chilli & Ginger Pickle!
The two chilli and ginger pickles I made for the stall I did at Covent Garden Real Food Market last year have proved popular. So I thought I’d make some more for the Underground Farmers Market, later...
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Hot, Sweet, Sour, Tangy Lemon Pickle!
Lemons in India are different – they’re lemony (well, duh!) but rounder with much thinner skins than the ones we see most commonly in the UK. Indians in the UK sometimes choose to use limes in place of...
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Pickled Gherkins, How I Love Thee!
I have always loved pickled gherkins. Many’s the time I’ve come to the chagrined realisation, as I munch one straight from the jar, then another and then one more, that I have eaten an entire jar in...
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Pickled Rock Samphire & Pork Rillettes + Rules For Foraging Safely & Responsibly
There’s something deeply satisfying about making a meal of ingredients foraged directly from the earth, not by some faceless stranger who’s sold his lucrative hedgerow hoard to a restaurant chef, but...
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Augurken Sticks from Amsterdam
In Amsterdam, I did my best to search out as many local specialities as I could. Maatjes are meltingly soft, lightly soused herrings traditionally served with gherkins and chopped raw onion, with or...
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Kavey’s Genius Pickleback Ice Lollies!
Heeeeeell, YES, I made pickleback ice lollies! And they are mighty, mighty fine! First, I made straight pickled gherkin ice lollies, inspired by an idea I came across when searching for Zoku character...
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About Home Canning & Other Preservation Methods
I’m very used to making jams, jellies, chutneys, ketchups and pickles, all of which require basic sterilisation of jars, easy recipes and a straightforward process to fill and seal the jars. In these...
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Allotment Pickings: Pickled Beetroot
As usual, time ran away with us down at the allotment and the thickly sown rows of beetroot never did get thinned out or weeded. That resulted in a harvest of lots of teeny tiny beetroots which we were...
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Opies: A Family Business, A Colourful Salad & A Competition
I’ve been aware of the Opies brand for several years, having bought and really enjoyed a number of their preserved fruit products during that period. What I didn’t know was that this family-run...
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