by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 27, 2013 | All Recipes, My Diary
I picked the last apple tree clean just now. It’s a Fiesta, which is a green, crisp apple with a lovely juicy bite and a clean, appley, Cox like flavour. Ken Muir, the grower, says that the season is October to December, and as you might expect from that, they weren’t...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 25, 2013 | All Recipes, Breakfast
I had a little play with me breakfast this morning. Because of the plums and apples in the garden, I have been having them every day. I didn’t fancy compote again today, so I was wondering what else to do and came up with this. Now I appreciate that Greg Wallace...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2013 | My Diary
I harvested another 10kg of Victoria plums yesterday, 1.7kg of Discovery apples. Plus 3.3kg of wasp ruined, spotty Scrumptious apples from the back garden. These were, by a long way, the best apples last year. They’re not very good this year! The 2 plums on the top of...