Making crabapple jelly

A storecupboard essential to accompany meats and cheese for the year ahead - started with about 3kg of crabapples, foraged from the tree on the green

Topped and tailed, chopped and stewed for 45 minutes

Then strained, sugar added and boiled until the setting point was reached

Four jars of jelly cooling, and ready for storing

Fresh strawberries

Perhaps the last strawberries of the summer - we're getting into autumnal flavours now

Steak salad

Sirloin steak, marinaded in oyster sauce, soy sauce, dry sherry and garlic

With a rocket and coriander salad, mango, avocado and a chilli-soy dressing

glut

A week's growth from the courgettes

Chicken curry

A homemade chicken and nectarine curry

It was meant to be a chicken and mango curry, but the local store had no mangos, so nectarines and a spoonful of mango chutney aimed to make up for it. Surprisingly (to me) it was successful.

Cottage pie

The bolognese found another outing in a cottage pie for one

Slow cooked bolognese

Slow cooked bolognese with pappardelle

Improvised supper

Improvised supper for 1 - starting with chorizo

Adding new potatoes, basil and fresh cherry tomatoes

Served on toasted ciabatta