Cooking in someone else's kitchen

It's been a while, but I thought I'd better blow off a few cobwebs and start posting here again. A lot has happened since I last wrote a post, in late 2020, a lot of it rather sad. We lost my mot...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2023/08/garlic-harvest.html

I've been experimenting with ginger, trying to develop the ultimate ginger biscuit/cookie recipe. Of course, this is in a month where a worldwide ginger shortage has been announced .  The ...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2020/12/ginger-explosions.html

I made some garden-related comment to Mike the other day: it might have been about the first eggplant flower, or perhaps it was about the strawberries that were starting to ripen, I forget. H...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2020/06/easily-pleased.html

I ordered some fruit and nut plants back in February as part of the general aim of self-sufficiency. They arrived ten days ago and we have been busy planting and watering them. It has been good t...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2020/05/signs-of-life.html

Life in lockdown is not so different from normal life for me. I don't have small children out of school to worry about and I can work from home with no great difficulty. With Mike and Child2 here...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2020/04/taking-it-slow.html

Well, I haven't been doing a very good job of keeping this blog up to date, have I? My impression is that the coronavirus crisis is creating a new generation of bloggers as people are more and mo...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2020/03/strange-times.html

 November has been a fairly memorable month so far, in terms of weather. On the first of the month, gale force winds brought down several trees and left us without power for two days. This red...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2019/11/wild-november.html

I'm still picking tomatoes from the greenhouse, but they are ripening very slowly now and I know it won't be long before a killing frost gets to them. This week I have been making the most ...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2019/10/tomato-last-hurrah.html

It's been a while since I've been here (over two years, wow), but I want to get back in the habit of writing regularly, and this seems like a sensible place to start. I thought I'd write up my re...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2019/10/resurrection-with-pickled-peppers.html

The tomatoes are starting to come in fast and I realise that I have never written up my current method for turning them into sauce for the winter. So this post is to remedy that situation. I've s...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2017/08/tomato-processing.html

This was a screenshot from the Weather Network site last month: It caught my attention, as 'severe' is not usually a word I'd associate with summer weather. But it has turned out to be an ...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2016/09/a-severe-summer.html

Ten years ago today I published First Post , the very first entry on Cooking in Someone Else's Kitchen. As I explained in my most recent post , life has rather got in the way of my blogging of la...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2016/07/last-post.html

I thought I'd better post an update in case anyone is wondering why I haven't been posting much recently. The main reason is that I'm back working full-time again, for the first time since moving...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2016/05/still-here.html

 After a mild few weeks, the weather took a turn for the colder this week. Yesterday an ice storm came through and left a fairly thick coating of ice over everything. This morning it warmed up q...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2016/03/winters-last-blast.html

Last day of January and a rare sight: the chickens being able to venture outside. For the last two winters they were cooped up for three months in a row. This winter has been much kinder. The...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2016/01/chickens-out.html

I don't let the weather stop me returning my library books... It turned quite snowy here this week, with about a foot of snow falling on Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Luckily the book ...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2016/01/library-trip.html

...harvest, that is. The first of 2016 and the last of last year's crops, I think. With winter finally putting in an appearance, and the temperature due to drop drastically tonight, I dug u...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2016/01/first-and-last.html

I know it can't last, but the exceptional weather has continued, with temperatures hitting 15°C/59°F today. I was able to harvest quite a few green things from the garden for our Christmas din...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2015/12/christmas-eve-harvest.html

Still mild here (hope writing that doesn't jinx things) - the greenhouse herbs are still going strong. Here's the dill: The parsley is still going, too. I mentioned the herbs to a colleague ...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2015/12/bringing-garden-indoors.html

November has been so mild, I'm still picking kale from the garden. Which is lucky, because the ones in the greenhouse are being comprehensively nibbled by caterpillars. This morning was the ...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2015/11/winter-on-way.html

Yesterday evening I was running round the greenhouse in a variation on Supermarket Sweep, gathering up vegetables that I thought might be damaged beyond edibility by the coming frost. The...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2015/10/pre-frost-harvest.html

There was a slight frost this morning: not enough to kill anything, or spoil the tomatoes, but enough to turn the roof white and create a crispy feeling underfoot. The Thanksgiving weekend ...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2015/10/thanksgiving-harvest.html

One of the tomato varieties I regularly grow is Principe Borghese (I seem to recall that these were a gift from another garden blogger, some years ago). In one of the descriptions online was ...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2015/09/sun-drying-tomatoes.html

I've got three different eggplant varieties growing this year, and so far I've had one fruit from each, with quite a few more to come if it stays warm for a while. This one, applegreen, is new ...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2015/09/all-shapes-and-sizes.html

The hot weather in the last couple of weeks has really been ripening the peppers. I spent a happy ten minutes this morning, picking them. I roasted the sweet peppers and then pulled the sk...

http://www.someoneelseskitchen.com/2015/09/peppers-again.html