One F&F reader can win a copy of this lovely book profiling kitchen gardens and the chefs who use them.
This is one of my favourite books that I’ve been sent to review for a long time. It is possibly the perfect F&F book. Kitchen Garden Experts, published by Frances Lincoln, sneaks around beautiful, productive, clever kitchen gardens. It interviews the head gardeners, and it interviews the chefs who use the produce. It is beautifully photographed. It is full of clever tips and tricks. It is also a recipe book.
Some books that I get sent are useful and give me a few tips here and there. This is a book that I keep coming back to and that I have read my whole way through. It is marvellous, and I would recommend it to any F&F reader, because let’s face it, if you’re on F&F, you’ll be as in love with this kind of thing as I am.
So I’m very pleased that one lucky F&F reader can win a copy of this book. All you need to do is post a comment below with the tastiest fruit or vegetable you’ve ever grown yourself. The closing date is 29 July. Go!
Red and yellow peppers!
I’m always up and ready for something new to grow. The info on the label says to start indoors. Never got around to following the directions on the packet of seeds So, early in the planting season I started the seeds of BEET BERRY (chenopodium folosium) in a planting bag. Description - Mulberry-like bright red fruit with a sweet mild flavor on branching 12″ plants. Unusual and fun to grow. So far so good. No fruit in sight. Hopeful!
Sounds like a really nice book.
The tastiest i’ve grown has to be raspberries.
From the store they can be bland, but right out of the garden (well, balcony in my case), they are so good!
Cherry Tomatoes, so sweet and juicy! x
The tastiest things i ever grew in the garden were potatoes in a small bag.When i tipped them out to harvest them i felt very proud and even took a photograph of them for future reference.
Almost any berry! Fresh from the garden strawberries, raspberries, mulberries, blueberries just can’t be beat.
sugar snap peas!
Home grown runner beans, tender and tasty.
Thanks for the fab giveaway! I have found that the tomatoes you grow in your garden tastes Best!
My last summer crop of jalepeno chillies which I was able to smoke at home to make my own smoky dried chipotle flakes which I’ve used all year in my cooking
Carrots! Nothing beats home grown carrots
we have a blackcurrant bush in our garden that now has enough fruit to make a pie this year
Cherry tomatoes.
I grow really nice cherry tomatoes.
My beetroot - it’s got a fabulous taste, just simply boiled with any surplus pickled for the winter.
My strawberries always taste so sweet straight out of the garden
grew a punkin once ,till me eldest stood on it and destroyed it
Peas - they are wonderful but I have never managed to grow more than a few handfuls of them despite using pea nets!
Really there’s too many to choose from but I’m really enjoying the loganberries this year, they are so sweet.
raspberries - well i havent managed to kill them off yet!
There is nothing, as far as I’m concerned, to beat walking into a hot greenhouse on a sunny day and picking a handful of cherry tomatoes off the vine. Sungold are the best, little golden explosions of flavour.
strawberries - fresh and sweet
Gooseberries.
You can’t beat runner beans in the race for the tastiest, crispest, juiciest, vegetable from garden to plate in minutes.
sweet corn yum
I really don’t think you can beat the taste of just-picked, home-grown tomatoes. They are always fabulous
Just had some lovely sugar snap peas from my garden
A lovely pumpkin that I made a cake with, ooh and cucumbers that were so much tatsier than the ones from the supermarkets
Raspberries!
red & yellow peppers