A sea of Sunflowers

 The weather was beautiful so a walk in the allotment was a joy. We were welcomed by a mass of sunflowers. Most of them self set  from seeds dropped in previous years.

Carmen, Keiko, Emi and Hiroe started with picking raspberries as a treat to take home. We picked both red and yellow ones. The we picked masses of spinach beet for our Vegan Spinach and Ginger soup.

   

Before we went to the allotment, we made the dough for wraps, as it needed to rest for 15 mins.

After picking sunflowers we walked home, prepared the  freshly harvested filling for the wraps (our first orange sweet peppers, carrots, cucumber tomatoes) and made our wraps 

      

Together with soup a gorgeous lunch and the ladies went home with a big bunch of sunflowers each.

Rhubarb cordial and crumble with a lovely Spinach and ginger soup

Looking back through my blog I came across the lovely day when Asako, Ada and Karina came to harvest spinach and Rhubarb a few years ago.  So when I headed to the allotment this morning for my daily exercise, I found a very chilly but Sunny oasis of peace and hope.

I came back hope with a bunch of tulips, Rhubarb flowers and forget me nots to put inside in a vase.

I picked some spinach for the spinach and ginger soup and rhubarb for a cordial and crumble. I used the left over strained rhubarb as the base of the crumble. The topping is one with ginger, almonds, sugar and flour.

 We even managed a glass in the sunshine, whilst the crumble was in the oven.

As a desert we have a rhubarb crumble I used the strained rhubarb that was left after making the crumble. The topping with the almonds was divine.

Dezyre making the crumble topping

For starters we made a spinach soup.
June and Asako cut the spinach and wilted it in some salted water,
They then added a chopped onion, ginger and a minced garlic clove.
Covered it with a vegetable stock to cover the greens and let it simmer until cooked.
At this point we added some cornflour to thicken the soup a little. Then added some milk to bulk it out.

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• Rhubarb, almond and ginger crumble from Delia online

Rhubarb crumble ingredients