What's in my kitchen
What is in my kitchen this week? Well for a start there are quite a lot of flowers. A jug of sweetpeas picked this morning and waiting to go to a friend. Every time I walk past the scent makes my head turn. The cutting garden is producing so many dahlias that I haven't brought any cosmos inside yet. I love these huge orange ones, Ludwig Helfert, next to Bishop of Llandaff and some Euphorbia Oblongata. They are like a firework exploding on the table. And the fact that the kitchen is full of flowers means that it is also full of vegetables. Fresh peas are one of the glories of summer. I can't pick them without shelling some and eating them right there in the garden. I haven't been able to bring myself to do anything with these other than cook them briefly in boiling water and eat them with butter and mint. I have a lovely recipe for pea and lettuce soup which I keep meaning to try but the peas are so young and sweet that making a soup w...