Our grapes are well on their way to ripening. We are hoping to protect them a bit better this year. Last year we lost the whole lot one morning to cheeky little birds.
We decided to try our hand at pickling a few different types of onions. Like our garlic they looked like a few of them were starting to get a little mouldy so we pulled them up early to save what we could and binned the rest.
Here are the results
We made 3 different onion variations: Chilli Shallots, Balsamic Onions, Traditional pickled (red) onions. The picture also shows some pickled beetroot we used a basic pickling recipe for this too.
My favourite is definitely the balsamic onions. The others are ok but maybe a little acidic. Next time I think we will add a little sugar 
A quick snack to use up some of our broccoli…
Recipe for Tempura Batter : http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/451626/tempura-batter
Our latest pickings include Broccoli and Cucumbers…
We are struggling to get our broccoli to have large heads though. There must be some trick to it! But it tastes great all the same
At the weekend I got busy baking a loaf of courgette and mushroom bread. It was very tasty! I recommend it to anyone with a glut of courgettes. I only needed to add half of the amount of recommended water and needed quite a bit more flour whilst kneading. So you might wish to bear that in mind.
Recipe can be found here:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2889/courgette-and-mushroom-bread
Well I never, after all this time finally we have life on the Avocado front!
UPDATED 22.08.2011:
