The great re-heating debate

To some people, reheating a pizza is the greatest sacrilege that you can perform on a perfect pizza, akin to mixing Chateau Lafite with coke or wearing brown in town.  Despite spending a lot of time and effort to ensure that your pizza comes out at a scalding 200º so that it is perfect to be…

Polytunnels

Brrr, it’s bloody freezing, what the hell happened to Spring?  Importantly what is going to happen to the vegetables in the kitchen garden with all these Spring frosts?  Well thankfully a very ugly, but extremely efficient system has evolved over the decades and thanks to the polytunnel, the British growing season for vegetables and fruits…

Wild Garlic

I love wild garlic, and for a few weeks in early Spring I go crazy, making soups, wild garlic butter and just using the leaves in salad (sparingly otherwise you can terrify vampires with your breath), but most importantly I make a pesto to put on the pizzas.  It couldn’t be more simple, I go…

The Kitchen Garden as a veg patch

March must be an incredibly exciting time to have a kitchen garden, and I wish that I had one; instead I make do with 2 raised beds and a handful of planters, which are just as exciting if you love fresh fruit and vegetables. Now is the time that the plants are coming off the…