November 25 (Tues.)
Keith Floyd when asked what his all time favourite food was said ‘Oysters and a glass of bubbly sat on a dustbin anywhere’. Just wanted to put that in there as a tribute to the man.
My tastes are more humbly and true to my English roots; good boiled potatoes, hot from the pot with a generous sprinkling of sea salt, lashings of butter and a glass of good ale pretty much hit the spot everytime ! And that’s precisely how I served up the first of our potato harvest. Meager harvest as it was, I was amazed that we got anything at all. Those cutworms dessimated the potato plants before they bloomed but I just left them as they were hoping some tubers may develop down in the soil as they did.
We should get a few meals out of them even if this year the bountiful harvest it looked like I was in line for when that long line of plants came up was scuppered.

Needless to say the taste of these homegrown was indescribably good ! Of all the crops potatoes for me are the ones that realy just knock the spots off their supermarket bought brethrens.