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

Marvellous @DeanElderberry fabulous, and gripping summary. I feel up to date and engaged.
Also I have bookmarked Ariela‘s recipe link. Thanks @Ariela . I will impress my expert MIL with eventually. This may be the best arrow in my quiver yet!

Anything new at the plot?

@YaMuvva Hey, just checking in to see how you are? Hope you're on the mend and enjoying being down at the allotment 👩🏻‍🌾

@YaMuvva Just letting you know that you are still being thought of, and I hope you are feeling stronger each day.

Let us know if DH plants some more goodies on your allotment.

Made THE chocolate cake today. With cream instead of icing. It's delicious

Ohhh my @Fluffytoebeanz that looks amazing 🤩 Hope you enjoyed it 😊

That does look amazing @Fluffytoebeanz 🤩 😍 There's some height on that cake!! (Can you even get your mouth around a slice? 🤪)

I had a delicious Middle Eastern inspired beetroot salad from Sainsbury’s for my lunch this week. Beetroot salad and a white t-shirt was not the best idea!

Had to use a fork. Otherwise would end up looking like a toddler covered in cream and chocolate. Was lush

OP, how are you feeling now?

have you bumped into Babs at all?

btw, I love beetroot, am I still allowed in?

Please give it a try, OP!
Home grown beetroot is delicious, earthy but sweet. And nothing like the stuff in jars which is mouth-puckeringly acid or even the vacuum packed ones which are dull and soft.
Chlodnik, a funky pink soup due to the addition of buttermilk, a salad with cooked lentils and goat's cheese, oven roasted with a squeeze of orange or a plain salad of cubed beetroot dressed with olive oil, chopped spring onion and (a very little) wine vinegar, à la Francaise.
I love beetroots from the garden or allotment, you can even get different coloured ones, including striped.

@Fluffytoebeanz ehere can I find the recipe for this cake of beauty pls🙏

With thanks to the OP
https://addapinch.com/the-best-chocolate-cake-recipe-ever/#wprm-recipe-container-31552

I missed the end of the last thread, so I'm doing a catch up on recipes.

Something a relative made up and I adapted is a sort of oily vegi er thing.

Slices of mushrooms, peppers, olives, a few fresh herbs and a whole clove of garlic.

Pack in to a jam jar / kilner jar and pour over olive oil. Make sure the oil covers everything. Leave for a week and eat with crust bread.

You can use any veg you have, I sometimes add capers, the inventor uses anchovies but onions, chives, chillies, whatever you have grown would work.

It looks nice so I have made it for presents a couple of times.

While we are on the subject of different colour vegetables I suggest you get hubby to grow yellow courgettes rather than green ones. When they go oversize (inevitable!) the courgette and lemon marmalade/jam you can make is delish and much prettier than when made with green ones

Hope you've made a full recovery @YaMuvva and enjoying your allotment.

I had forgotten about this thread!!

I'd love to read an update on how the summer went and if Babs is on the scene!

Oh I remember the start of this thread and have just enjoyed reading all through all the updates. I hope you're recovering well and Penfold has kept out your way.
Hope your absence is not due to another ban.

This is a timely reappearance of this thread as I am contemplating making the chocolate cake this week and was readying myself for a recipe search!

@YaMuvva If you are still around ?

some of us would love an update on the neighbours, and on the veg plot...

I saw on another thread that apparently OP was banned due to making racist remarks to another MNetter. So no further info is forthcoming on this unfortunately

Darn. I would have loved an update.

Wasn't that just a temporary ban?

I think there was a temp ban, but that obviously since turned permanent. On AS @YaMuvva hasn't posted since 2nd June.