Recipes
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Tomato & Chilli Chutney
This is a fantastic chutney, which accompaniments most cheeses, especially a strong and mature cheddar - yum! Ingredients 1 kilo Fresh Tomatoes 1 tin Chopped Tomatoes 150g Caster Sugar 250ml White Wine Vinegar 2 tsp Nigela Seeds 2 Chillis (remove... -
Blueberry & White Chocolate Muffins
It's Blueberry picking time! With an abundance of Blueberries, why not try this lovely Blueberry & White Chocolate Muffin recipe... Ingredients 300g Blueberries 60g white chocolate buttons/chunks 350g Self-raising flour 60g Caster Sugar 60g Muscovado Sugar 3 Eggs 2 tsb... -
Damson Gin
Our simple homemade Damson Gin recipe will be great in a few months, ready for autumn! Ingredients 1 Litre Gin 500g Damsons 250g Caster Sugar Method Rinse and remove any leaves and stalks from the Damsons, then pat dry. Tip... -
Fig, Apple & Halloumi Salad
Ingredients 10 fresh figs halved 60g honey 100ml olive oil 2 x 250g blocks halloumi, thickly sliced, then halved 2 tbsp sherry vinegar 150g rocket 1 x eating apple, peeled, cored & finely sliced 2 tbsp flaked toasted almonds Method... -
Raspberry Compote
The home-grown fruit and veg cropping in abundance bring with them the soothing, homely prospect of making jams, jellies and chutneys. Do have a look below for the Ashridge team’s favourite recipe for raspberry compote . Compote Ingredients Fresh or... -
The fruits of your labour
I’m sure that you, like all good gardeners, have been constantly looking at the weather forecast for your local area, and this week it seems as though it’s getting colder. The trees are losing their leaves which have turned into... -
Five of the Best Things to do with Home Grown Herbs
Here are our suggestions for five brilliant (and easy) things to do with your herbs in the kitchen. Lemon balm pesto - yes really, and probably not for the kids! This has been lifted straight and unashamedly from the wonderful... -
The Best Rhubarb Mille Feuille - Recipe
Mille Feuille made with fresh young rhubarb This is a recipe that works wonderfully well with tender fresh rhubarb such as Stockbridge Arrow (which you can cut from February onwards) and it helps use up all those frozen strawberries... -
Apple and Almond Cake
Seasonal Christmassy cake for when you are already full... Ingredients 150g Brown Self Raising Flour 50g Ground Almond 1 teaspoon of Baking Powder 225g Golden Caster Sugar 2 Eggs ½ teaspoon Almond Extract 150g Melted Butter 350g Cooking Apples... -
Apple and Celeriac Salad with Walnuts
Celeriac and Apple Salad with Walnuts Serves 4 Ingredients: ½ a Celeriac, peeled and cut into matchsticks-on a mandolin, if you have one 3 Apples, using a variety of red and green, cut into match sticks on your mandolin... -
Blackberry and Apple Upside down cake
Just the best squidgy cake This is a superb cake for early autumn. It sort of helps ease the passing of summer and reminds one why the seasons change. Blackberry and apple is a classic combination and wrapped up... -
Goat's cheese, pear, walnut and lavender honey salad
Honey where the bees have mainly collected pollen from lavender plants has such a beautiful flavour that we didn't want to spoil it by mixing it with anything. Instead it is drizzled on top of its perfect partner – goat’s cheese, to make a simple, but delicious salad. The perfect way to ease yourself into eating lighter foods as the temperature warms this spring.
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Shrove Tuesday Pancakes with Berry Sauce
It’s Shrove Tuesday on 4th March, the day we all look forward to for our annual pancake feast and afterwards declare that we should eat pancakes more often. We rarely do of course, so this classic recipe is a way to ensure you make the most of your annual treat.
Berry season is long gone, but this sauce is a great opportunity to use up any frozen gluts from last year.
Makes about 6 pancakes, depending on the size of your pan
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Bramley Apple and Almond Pudding Cake
This decadent cake is a brilliant way to use up any Bramley apples left over from the season. Serve warm with crème fraiche or even custard if you fancy, it will soak into the rich sponge and balance the tart apples
Serves 8
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Recipe: Homemade damson vodka
Looking just as rich and luscious as it tastes, your
damson vodka could be ready for Christmas2013 has been a bumper year for damsons.
A hot summer, with just enough rain to swell the fruit is best for damsons and results in branches that are groaning under the weight of all that fruit
And while you can of course make damson jam, damson cheese, damson chutney and damson sauce, there is nothing quite like damson vodka.
Decanted into decorative bottles this rich, syrupy liquor makes a perfect Christmas gift – and if you hurry, you might just be in time for this year's festivities. Give this a go, and we're sure that your friends and family will be glad you did!
If you already have your damson harvest, great – if not, hopefully you will find some still on the trees. Failing that, try your local orchard or farm shop! So grab a bag and get picking.
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Recipe: Chicken sauté Normande
As its name suggests, Chicken sauté Normande brings more than a little Gallic kitchen flair! As the sun wanes and the days get shorter, this dish is guaranteed to keep those summer days fresh in your mind (and on... -
Quick and quirky ways to use fresh fruit
Chicken, strawberry and avocado salad
Fruits are not just for desserts.
In the pursuit of new and interesting tastes we love pairing fresh fruit with savoury dishes too. The slight tang in many soft fruits works especially well with rich meats – think of apple sauce with pork, or cranberry sauce with turkey.
But incorporating fresh fruit into the dish itself is a logical extension of this, creating an effect which is subtler and even more delicious!
Read on for a few of the fruity, savoury partnerships that we really enjoy putting together...
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Lavender recipes from Andy Hamilton
Bristol-based author Andy Hamilton included two lavender recipes in his award-winning book, Booze for Free.Yes, lavender is pretty. And yes, lavender smells nice. But if you are wondering what use all those lavender plants for that you bought from us.... did you know it makes a cracking pint too?
With a catchy title like that, and with lavender as an ingredient, we could hardly ignore it...
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Recipe: An Autumn Fruit and Nut Crumble
Apples, pears, blackberries, hazelnuts,
pistachios... wow!Apples on the tree, nuts on the bush and brambles heaving with blackberries. Yup - Autumn is here.
So we're going straight down the comfort route and bringing you the ultimate crumble... enjoy!
It's loaded with fruit – apples, pears, and blackberries. And it's topped with a tasty crumble of oats, hazelnuts and pistachios. And a touch of cinnamon to warm things up.
Ultimate fruit and nut crumble – a bit of comfort in a cold snap!
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