Making homemade fertilizer is the best way to ensure that your plants thrive with organic feed. Here are the top Vinegar Fertilizer Recipes that offer vital plant nutrients.
21.08.2023 - 11:49 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
Katsu curry sauce is often poured over breaded chicken on a bed of rice. We made this yesterday and really liked it (we cheated a bit and served it with ready made breaded chicken, so we didn’t have to faff around with breadcrumbs), but is a versatile sauce you can serve with just about anything.
We have leftover sauce in the fridge for another meal one evening this week. It would be easy to make the sauce ahead of time (it takes about 40 mins), and then reheat it when needed.
Making homemade fertilizer is the best way to ensure that your plants thrive with organic feed. Here are the top Vinegar Fertilizer Recipes that offer vital plant nutrients.
‘Potato Pete’ was a cartoon character from the WW2 era, whose job was to persuade people to fill up on homegrown potatoes rather than bread made from imported wheat. Potatoes made it into all kinds of recipes during the war, replacing some of the fat in pastry and even turning into dessert. The Ministry of Food published the Potato Pete Recipe Book, which you can read online.
Oca is a very tasty and useful vegetable tuber. It grows well for me in North Wales. It’s good ground cover and polycrops well with taller partners such as tomatoes. Fresh picked and raw, many varieties have a lemony (oxalic acid) taste which goes after exposure to the sun. The cooked taste is sweet. The texture ranges from that of a slightly less crunchy water chestnut to a soft puree which depends on the variety and how much you’ve cooked them.
My dad’s minimalistic and flexible (but delicious!) recipe for sage and onion stuffing.
On the weekend that we had Jus-Rol Cinnamon Swirls as our mid-gardening snack, I also hatched a plan to use up the last of the oca harvest. Oca is Oxalis tuberosa, mainly grown for its edible tubers, which were (are?) a staple crop in its homeland of the Andes. There they have a large number of different varieties, bred for different culinary uses. This far out of its normal range we have a much more limited choice, although there are people working on that. Oca tubers are a bit like potatoes and generally used in the same way, although their flavour is a little different.
The ice cream experiments continue, with a spate of frozen yoghurt trials. I have never been a big fan of chocolate ice cream, but something I read online (and a half-empty jar of Nutella) prompted me to give Nutella frozen yoghurt a go!
A bread machine recipe, from the Logik Stainless Steel Bread Maker instruction booklet, for a loaf that is about 1/4 wholewheat flour.
A reliable French-style bread machine recipe, from the Logik Stainless Steel Bread Maker instruction booklet.
Another of my dad’s minimalistic (but tasty!) recipes, for a wartime crumble mix that uses breadcrumbs rather than flour.
This is one of a series of posts looking at what we might eat on Mars, where most food would have to be shelf-stable, tinned or freeze-dried. You can find other posts on this topic under the Martian Meals tag.
Given the shortage of onions during WW2, it’s not surprising that there aren’t many wartime recipes in which they play a starring role, but I did manage to find three – all of which required the onions to be parboiled. I’d never boiled an onion before, but we gave it a go, and (to save on fuel!) I boiled six onions at once in order to try all three recipes.
Last year sometime, I found the National Space Centre’s recipe for edible meteorites. We thought it would be fun to give it a go, but decided that making meteorite shapes would be too much of a faff, so we made it in a tray. We liked it so much we’ve made it lots of time since and tweaked the recipe a bit. We call it our rocky regolith, as it’s like Rocky Road but there are no roads in space!