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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.

Friday 20 July 2012

Morrocan vol au vent

Thank you to Katherine for this lovely recipe.  I am very tempted to try it was a dip or a pitta filling as suggested, as I love aubergines.  Sadly this year they haven't grown at all in my greenhouse due to the bad weather - I wonder if there will be any local aubergines at all?


Roast a whole aubergine, in hot oven for about 30 mins to an hour – has to be really soft inside when done.  skin it and mix up the pulp with splash of lemon, crushed garlic clove, level teaspoon of cumin, about 100g of bulghar wheat (put in

container pour on boiling water seal and leave for 15 mins) check it’s cooked, add some chopped chilli (to taste) pepper, chopped coriander and mint, could add chopped sultanas / apricots.   Fill some puff pastry vol au vents (roll puff pastry cut out circles and then mark a smaller circle a bit so when they puff up you can remove the centre circle.  Put the circles on a oiled baking sheet at high temp about 220C for about 15 mins

variations could use couscous, or brown rice to add to aubergine mixture. Could be just a dip or in pitta with salad.
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