Souped-up Garden

cooking with garden-fresh ingredients grown in an intensive southwest France urban potager; writing book reviews; traveling around & about, mostly in France; taking photographs and making art of it all

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Thursday, 3 September 2020

Keeping Up With The Figs Plus The Late Summer Garden

Our fig tree started last week to present fruit ripe enough for picking. Presently it is yielding about twenty large figs daily. Learning fr...

Thursday, 23 July 2020

Summer Break 2020

Souped-up Garden will return the earliest mid-August, the latest the first week in September!

Thursday, 16 July 2020

High Summer 2020

A fresh spring garden, all bright green and friendly, became a lush summer solstice one which is now becoming a glorious mature profusion bu...

Thursday, 9 July 2020

Preservation of Produce: Blackberry Coulis

Our single blackberry bush already has given us ten litres and is still going as there's no tomorrow. I suspect there's another ten ...

Thursday, 2 July 2020

Blueberry Bonanza: Double Batch of Muffins and Cake

Our two potted blueberry bushes have given us three litres and show no sign of letting up. I looked at all those blueberries and said, Batch...

Thursday, 25 June 2020

Southwest France Walks / Return to Linars

Hiking during the summer is a new endeavour for us. Since it gets so hot in southwest France, we had decided to limit our walking to the spr...

Thursday, 18 June 2020

Fruit Jam Hand Pies Using Pastry Scraps

Pastry scraps are to be coveted. If they will not be used in a day or two or if there are not enough, put them in a plastic bag and pop into...

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