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This is an attempt to document my efforts to grow and eat locally around Melbourne, Derbyshire. My family own a nine acre smallholding on which we grow fruit and vegetables and keep bees, and chickens, but that won't feed us alone, so the idea is to get to know our local produce and to see how easy/hard it is to follow a diet that is local to within 30 miles. The fun part is also trying some new (easy) recipes that use home-grown and local produce. Feel free to comment, send in recipes, and share your experiences of buying and eating locally.

Thursday 10 May 2012

Bacon hotpot

I made this for dinner tonight and made enough to last for two days. Everyone enjoyed it.
Recipe:
I fried bacon and then added chopped onion, carrot, parsnip and cabbage (any seasonal veg would do) and fried gently until soft. I then added a tablespoon of flour and then a good couple of glasses of home-made cider and covered with water. I then added a tin of cannelini beans. The seasonings were sage (from the garden), veg stock cube, Worcestershire sauce and a couple of tablespoons of my friend's home-made crab apple jelly. I then sliced potatoes thinly and layered them over the bacon mixture in a shallow casserole dish. I cooked for 45 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.
The veg were from Heath's Farm Shop and the bacon was from Chantry Farm Shop. I should have used cannelini beans that I grew and dried from the garden last year instead of tinned, but hadn't got round to soaking them when I had the inspiration for this recipe!
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