Supplies were getting low and I realised I needed to do some serious cooking. Here are the results of a productive afternoon.
From top left going clockwise: Buckwheat Blinis, Fluffy Coconut Pancakes, Coconut Bread, Raspberry Pudding Cake and Gingerbread.
The savoury Blinis and Coconut Loaf are great gluten free substitutes for Bread. The Pudding cake is dairy, gluten and sugar free. The coconut pancakes are an old time favourite. The Gingerbread was an experiment, we haven't tried it yet, I will let you know how it tastes!
The recipe for the Raspberry Pudding cake is courtesy of the
Urban Poser (although she calls it a breakfast cake). Check out her blog for some fab recipe ideas.
The Blinis are easy peasy:
3oz Buckwheat Flour
1tsp Baking Powder
Salt & Pepper
5 fl oz Milk (I use almond milk)
1tsp mustard powder
A few chopped chives
2 Egg whites whisked to stiff peaks
Combine the first six ingredients and beat well. Fold in Egg Whites and then fry in a hot pan with a little coconut oil. These are great topped with bacon and egg or spread with almond butter or homemade baked beans or..... so many possibilities.
Check out the recipe pages for the others
You may recall my previous post showing a completely barren, empty veggie patch. This is how it looks today. We have spent many hours out here, the work is back breaking at times but oh so satisfying. We were nervous when digging the first out door potatoes. We tried growing some in the hot house in dustbins but they didn't work. They didn't grow a single potato, not even a chip! We were relieved when we dug up these, especially as there are quite a few rows of them! 
This is the start of our orchard / fruit garden. Using the bank outside the hot house seems a good use of an otherwise useless space. It gets the sun all day, so fingers crossed for good results. Hubs and I have been married 28 years on 31st August so the fruit trees and bushes are our present to each other (how romantic) Who needs candlelit dinners and flowers and I can't eat chocolates anyway. We have Plum, apple and pear trees. Blackcurrant, gooseberry, raspberry and rhubarb, so lots of planting tomorrow.
