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food & drink

We’re incredibly lucky to have independent retailers in Ilfracombe, who sell real food – not processed cardboard. I also enjoy growing fruit and vegetables, and cooking mainly traditional English food.

The crispy crunch of a . . .

21-Sep-08

. . . home-grown apple is one of the delights of late summer and early autumn.

Tags apple, flavour, home-grown, robzlog

A summer bonus

30-Aug-08

Summer, you ask?

Yes, today was beautiful, so after pruning fuchsias, we went for a walk up Hillsborough with the dogs and started blackberrying.

Tags blackberry jam, food, setting point, sugar

Beans doing a runner

25-Aug-08

It’s been a very wet and dull August here, which hasn’t helped our runner beans. We were late planting them out as we had to prepare our new vegetable plot.

Tags home-grown, robzlog, runner beans

Home-made fish cakes and chips with pickled onions

24-Aug-08

Not something that we eat every day, but a wonderful occasional treat, especially when you can buy fresh cod or other white white fish and local potatoes

Tags chips, fish cakes, home-made, Ilfracombe, pickled onions, robzlog

When did you last eat fresh produce?

5-Jul-085-Jul-08

Probably never if you’ve always shopped at a supermarket, for their produce has to be chilled, stored or worse to preserve it from grower to distribution centre to articulated transporter to shop to shelf, which doesn’t leave a lot of time or room for fresh in its true sense.

Tags fresh, fruit, greengrocer, High Street, home-grown, Ilfracombe, local, North Devon, produce, seasonal, vegetables
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