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Japanese rose cheong syrup

Japanese rose cheong syrup

apanese rose cheong syrup is an easy recipe with only 3 ingredients. Pick the flowers and spruce tops, mix with sugar and wait!

Unripe plum cheong

Unripe plum cheong

Cheong, is the perfect way to use up your unripe plums right now. The recipe for unripe plum cheong couldn’t be simpler — just 2 ingredients!

Wild garlic and papaya kimchi

Wild garlic and papaya kimchi

Super quick and simple recipe to make kimchi from papaya and wild garlic. Just weigh, mix, and you’ve got a delicious spicy kick for any dish

Grilled plum and tomato gazpacho

Grilled plum and tomato gazpacho

  In my little city greenhouse the tomatoes are finally ripening. This year the plums are a bit later than usual and this morning I picked both and decided to make a refreshing cold summer soup with plums and tomatoes. I don’t like my soup…

Fig shaved ice with fig syrup

Fig shaved ice with fig syrup

This year it was warm long enough for a second fig harvest! My November figs are slightly smaller and slightly less sweet than this year’s summer figs. The leaves of my tree have almost all fallen and the figs look like Christmas baubles on a…

toasted fig leaf crème brûlée with blackcurrants

toasted fig leaf crème brûlée with blackcurrants

The blackcurrant is perhaps the most laid-back berry in the garden. They do not all ripen at the same time and you can easily leave them hanging for a while even when they are ripe. Birds usually do not have such an appetite for these…