Good Food Kitchen

The sunflowers in our allotment pollinator bed have rather got away from us. One has reached 14 feet, with the others standing between 10 and 12 feet. The bees love the flowers, and the birds are already eyeing up the seeds. 🌻 #gardenofengland #blacklaneallotments #sunflowers🌻

The last of our organically grown Luneor courgettes have gone into a new recipe: umami mushroom-stuffed yellow courgettes. Stuffed courgettes can be rather disappointing when all the flavour sits in the filling and the courgette is treated as little more than a container. Here, the mushrooms bring plenty of deep, savoury flavour, but the courgette is still the star. I’ll save the rest of the stuffing for the full recipe. For now, it was a good use for the final Luneor courgettes from our allotment. #CourgetteRecipes #AllotmentCooking #SeasonalCooking

This morning’s raspberry haul, destined for cheesecake and a batch of muffins. The golden raspberries are Fallgold; the reds are a mix of Versailles, Autumn Chef and Himbo Top. The difficult part is deciding which gets the larger share. #kitchengarden #autumnraspberries #fallgold #goodfoodkitchen

The Kent coast has done a fair impression of the Mediterranean this summer, and these heritage tomatoes grown from seed from Paros, Greece, have made the most of it. They are incredibly sweet and juicy: excellent sliced into sandwiches or slowly cooked for breakfast. A useful tomato to have growing when it tastes this good both raw and cooked. ⋆｡‧˚ʚ🍅🍅ɞ˚‧｡⋆ #HeritageTomatoes #GrowForFlavour #KentCoast

Harvest to plate. 🧺 A morning harvesting at the allotment, picking and digging what was ready - Carolus potatoes, Swiss chard, tomatoes, sweet peppers, chillies, cucumbers, raspberries and basil. Most made it into the trug. A few raspberries encountered difficulties somewhere between the canes and the basket. This is the bit we enjoy most - growing food until it’s ready, harvesting it at its best, then deciding what to make with it. °˖𓍢ִ໋🍃✿°.💚⋆ #GrowYourOwn #GardenHarvest #KitchenGarden #Allotment #GreenHeart