The Good Life

This is a pretty common recipe but it’s delish and if you do grow your own veg / herbs then it will taste so much better!

You will need:

• 4 tomatoes
• 1 red or white large onion
• A handful chopped basil or coriander (not spelled the way I thought)
• A good glugfull of olive oil
• A dash of cider vinegar
• Pinch of salt
• Pinch of sugar

1. Chop up the tomato and onion and place in a bowl. 
2. Add the olive oil covering the onions and tomato
3. Add the vinegar, salt and sugar and mix until dissolved
4. Roughly chop the basil and add to the mixture.
5. Cover with film and leave in fridge for an hour, then serve.

You can add this to a salad or to accompany chicken or fish. Or even, add it as a side dish when you have a BBQ! 

I’m on a roll here! That’s what happens when your foot explodes after being stung by a wasp and you get sent home from work. 

So my next recipe is White Chocolate and Strawberry cheesecake…Homegrown strawberry’s. 

You will need:

• 150g digestive biscuits
• 50g unsalted butter
• 150g white chocolate
• 300g soft cheese (like philadelphia)
• 150g double cream – lightly whipped
• 225g strawberries

1. Place the digestive biscuits in a sealed bag and bash them with a rolling pin.
2. Melt the butter in a pan and add the digestives to the pan reducing the heat.
3. Once mixed place in a 20cm springform tin and press down until the bottom of the tin is covered. 
4. Place that in the fridge until needed.
5. For the filling, break up the white chocolate and melt in a bowl.
6. Mix together the soft cheese, whipped cream and pour in the melted chocolate.
7. Take the tray out of the fridge and then carefully spoon on the mixture over the digestives.
8. Cut strawberry’s in half and place on top of the cheesecake.
9. Place in the fridge and chill for approx 4 hours.

Sophie here again with another recipe! This time it’s our own chunky veg coleslaw or as we like to call it at home…Philslaw. It’s amazing and we’ve gone through a hell of a lot of mayo and wholegrain mustard because we love it so much! 

It’s really easy to make and you will only need:

• 1 large carrot
• 1 onion (red or white)
• 2 radishes (optional)
• 1/2 white cabbage
• 1.5 tablespoon mayonaise
• 1 teaspoon wholegrain mustard
• 1 teaspoon of salad cream

1.  Slice the carrot and roughly chop into small chunks -(don’t use a grater as it produces more water when grated).
2. Roughly slice onion, radish and cabbage and put in a bowl.
3. Add the mayo, mustard and salad cream to the bowl and mix.

Done! Serve up! 

N.B you can add or remove anything you like really. We love experimenting with different things so you could try adding spring onion or red cabbage :0D 

Pickled Gherkins

You will need:

• 3 or 4 gherkins 
• 1.5 teaspoons salt per gherkin
• 1/2 cup sugar
• Teaspoon mustard seeds
• 2 cloves of garlic
• Handful of roughly chopped dill
• 1 red chilli
• 1/3 pickling vineger (cider)
• 2/3 water

Prep time: 10 minutes

Total cooking time: 30 minutes 

1. Put whole gherkins into a pan and pour 1/3 of vinegar to 2/3 boiling water, enough to just cover the gherkins
2. Add the salt and sugar to the pan
3. Add mustard seeds
4. Bring to the boil, as soon as it’s boiled take off the heat and leave outside to cool. 
5. Once cooled slice the gherkins into slices (I usually do them about £1 coin thick, Phil has sliced them into strips)
6. Put the gherkins into a dry, clean jar and add your chilli, garlic and dill.
7. Pour over the cooled pickling juice and screw lids.
8. Store in a cool dry place
9. Leave for one week and then EAT!