CF allotment thread 5 - Babs Beets it

[YaMuvva]

Thread no 4 here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5071742-cf-allotment-thief-thread-no-4-babss-dodgy-solicitor-and-tv-producers-looking-to-cast-for-the-role-of-penfold?page=39&reply=135700059

Whilst allotment gate is basically over this is to continue the lovely chats about baking, beetroots and Babs when she comes back off holiday 🤣
Ill also use it to update DH’s new hobby in which he is channelling Alan Titchmarsh and also, my health, as a lot of people have very kindly asked

Ready to see photos of … what is the most important article to be on the plot of land?
Deck chairs, table and glasses/mugs ?

I need an update on Sally Seller as well!

Oh, been following and then I lost you. Sorry to hear that you have had a tough recovery, hope you are well on your way to full health.
Hope DH is enjoying his new allotment

Yay! I love the name of the latest installment. Whoop whoop!

I’m here for a new thread. I’m still rooting (!) for a Xmas film

What’s happened about the garage after the guy died?!

Is this one of them MN cliques?

@saraclara

' a boiled clementine cake ' sounds lovely, could you tell me more i.e. the recipe

Hope you are on the mend @YaMuvva ❤️ couldn't bear to look at the last thead properly on account of all the burgandy balls of vile doom aka beetroot😂.

It's behind a Telegraph paywall I'm afraid, so I work from screenshots of the recipe.

I once accidentally forgot the eggs, which meant that I ended up with something that couldn't be sliced as it didn't hold together. I covered it with creme fraiche and sprinkled it with pomegranate arils and pistachio nibs, and hey presto, a spoonable dessert! Also recommended!

Place marking so I don't lose the thread (or the plot).

Not the same as the cake @saraclara makes but the Nigella Lawson recipe is good (she also has a chocolate orange version). https://www.nigella.com/recipes/clementine-cake

I can’t take credit for the name I’m afraid!

We already reclaimed it but his sister was trying to get into it as she thought he still was using it.

She’s been a nightmare actually, if we are in the garden she’s in hers and makes comments about “people thinking they own the whole street”. She also had a visitor yesterday who parked on our across the road driveway!! And she came out (I could hear her from garden) and say “Sorry Paul apparently that’s not Garage Thief’s drive anymore”.
Thankfully I’ve got far too many other problems to let this behaviour get to me!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE clementines and the cake sounds amazing! When I’m no longer half dead I am going to bake all of these wonderful cakes!!

I fucking dreamt about beetroot last night 🤣🤣 I’m get to be convinced that it’s not anything but horrible stuff but once DH grows his beets I will use them in a chocolate cake and soup too.

I think I'd like beetroot if there was a variety that didn't taste like dirt 😭

Patiently waiting for some golden beets to hurry up and grow but I'll not hold my breath that they'll be any different.

@saraclara and @artant

Thank you both so much !

That isn't a dream @YaMuvva that is a full on nightmare😂😂😂! I honestly hate the stuff, but I hope the home grown stuff he brings you is good, maybe it'll even change your view on beetroot.

In the US here - Golden beets are my absolutely favorite vegetable. My favorite way of preparing them is slicing them using vegetable oil and salt and pepper and roasting them.

Is it beetroots that were originally a different colour ( golden?)? Or was it carrots that changed colour?

Carrots used to be purple if I remember correctly.

Im sure I once got purple carrots from Waitrose once!! It was purple something anyway

We get a tray of mixed colour carrots from Tesco and the purple ones take forever to cook so if you cook them all together you end up with some over cooked and some undercooked.

They're all delicious but definitely don't think they should be mixed in a tray to cook. Not really sure why colour makes a difference to cook time.

I just googled, carrots used to be purple, you can obviously still buy/grow them and they are very good for you, even moreso than their orange buddies. Shame I don't like carrots though😂.