These photos were taken in Bristol, about 20m from an enormous allotment that my friends tend. Their lives are entirely simplified by this - they spend less, eat organic, fresh, seasonal food all year around and have a huge source of joy from their labour. It's a fantastic lifesyle of which I am more than a little envious.
Not to mention the zucchini flowers - seriously hard to find and cost the earth - I think I was holding about £7 woth of those babies. We had them gently sauteed in olive oil with their zucchinis, lemon zest and a squeeze of lemon juice. Tasty tasty.
These photos were taken by my husband and really capture the essence of the allotment in the height of summer.
I must confess I never knew artichokes were so pretty
Hello!
I just discovered your blog through London Food and Drink. My name is Bethany and I write the blog http://www.dirtykitchensecrets.com here in London as well. A few other bloggers and I are organizing a conference on Food Blogging on the 28th of November, 2009 in London.
We would love it if you could join us. Depending on the number of food bloggers who RSVP, we hope to also have guest speakers talking about relevant issues to Food Blogging such as “How To Improve On Food Photography” or “What Makes A Good Food Blog” amongst others. In any case, it will be an opportunity to meet other food bloggers, some of which are coming from France, Germany and even India, and network, eat delicious food and have a good laugh.
For more information please visit http://www.dirtykitchensecrets.com/
We hope to see you there.
Bethany and the other organisers; Mowie Kay- Mowielicious, Jamie Schler- Life’s a Feast and Hilda Saffari- Saffron & Blueberry
Posted by: Bethany (Dirty Kitchen Secrets) | 20 October 2009 at 02:32 AM