Recent content by Missy Hellfire

I agree, there are many fine places to eat here in the UK that are both privately owned and unhomogenised and take pride in what they do. My point was mainly about the level of pride that these little American joints seem to have in what they do; it seems almost palpable (although British...

I got home from work today and saw that Man vs Food programme where that chap goes around the US taking on various eating challenges in diners and eateries. Though the amount of food consumed is nothing short of obcene and the food served far from healthy but one thing occurred to me; the...

We had a very early spring so some of my garden is doing beautifully now although we're having some strong winds that are threatening my beans and I am having a problem with the blackbirds eating my peas so I am thinking of investing in a net. I put my cucumbers in the greenhouse a couple of...

Lancaster bomber... Lots of people love Spitfires as you can't beat the sound of a Merlin engine, but the lanc has four :D This is Just Jane, she lives at East Kirkby airfield in Lincolnshire and I took this shot this afternoon. Just Jane taxis at the moment but has just taken delivery of some...

Gosh, I can't imagine a dearth of rhubarb! I've planted my runner beans out today and I am going to pot my cucumbers on and plant out the first wave of peas. I shall post some pictures when there is someting to see! Should I be blessed with beans, does anyone know any good ways of...

Colonel, what a wonderful blog! How about that chicken snake? We don't have anything of the sort here in the UK so I don't quite know what I would do if I found a fellow like that in my chicken coop! Canning isn't so big here in the UK I think, we are more likely to preserve our produce by...

My vote has been cast in your favour, sir :)

Colonel, your garden is magnificent! Oh for the beautiful Florida weather rather than the capricious beastie which is the British weather. It has been unseasonably warm here at the moment, about 20 or so degrees centigrade but I'm wary to put my cucumbers and courgettes in the greenhouse just...

She's half staffordshire bull terrier, quarter whippet and a quarter jack russell, it's combination that makes for an eccentric dog! :p My runner beans are turning into triffids on the dining room windowsill and it's stilll too early to plant them out, eek!

I am about as modest on the beach as one can get without wearing a burkha! Rue, I am with you on the bathing suits, I have been looking for one for a while now! As it is, I have a bathing suit that covers as much as I can get it to cover and it has a skirt that comes to just above my knee. I...

She likes to dig the onions up and hurl them around the garden! then again, I always knew she was a wierdo :P

I've put the beefsteak tomatoes into the greenhouse and my cucumbers and runner beans are really sprouting up beautifully. The tomatoes that I have propagating are the Moneymaker variety (not ideal but easily available and a 1950s variety, I believe). My courgettes (zucchini) remain stubborn...

Lovely stuff James and 7 plants should give you a beautiful crop, especially with the California sun shining on them! What manner of tomatoes do you have? I've got beefsteak tomatoes and just the regular multipurpose variety. We can't get Superthrive over here but I always do as my...

Ooer... I can't think of any good stuff but a whole assortment of bad! Best trait - I am told that I always put others first. Worst trait - I worry incessantly about anything and everything!

Geiamama - Of course! It's a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall recipe so nothing tip top secret. I have copied it from the River Cottage Cookbook: 6kg/13lb ripe tomatoes, roughly chopped 8 medium onions, peeled, halved and sliced 2 large red peppers, seeds and white filament removed, chopped...