Kitchen Tips

We would all love to have tomatoes year round, picked fresh from the vine still warm from the sun. Whilst our climate isn't capable of such a miracle, the good news is that every season is full of equally mouth watering treats and our Kitchen Tips aim to help you find, cook and enjoy them all.

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Fennel and Tomato Salad

This dish makes a side to any meal, or you could add a tin of your favourite fish or white beans to make it a meal in itself. Crisping up the fenne...

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Crispy Fried Courgette

We first ate this dish in a small town just outside Bologna in Italy. It’s a celebration of summer beginning and of all the beautiful produce that’...

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Onions

Whilst the humble onion is an essential base ingredient in many recipes, a good onion can be the star of the show.

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Beetroot Salad

This salad was the first thing taught to me by the legendary Jeremy Lee - famed for his British cooking and focus on seasonal produce. I will never...

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Pasta with Leafy Greens

This is one of the simplest dishes that we learnt on our travels through Italy and is a great way to use up any kale, chard, spinach or beetroot to...

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Fresh Garlic

Fresh garlic, wet garlic, or green garlic as it’s known is the same garlic that you know and love, just freshly pulled from the ground and not yet ...

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Swiss Chard

This year at Neetfield we’re growing lots of leafy greens including Red Russian Kale, Cavelo Nero, Spinach and Swiss chard.

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Kohlrabi

This unusual vegetable is a massive treat in a veg box as they aren’t usually found in the supermarket. It might look a little daunting but with a ...

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Salad & Leafy Greens

We plan to grow lots of bright, crunchy salad varieties each year at Neetfield. It’s a very fast growing crop and can be planted quite close togeth...

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Fennel

Fennel is a bright and crunchy vegetable with a subtle aniseed taste. Every part of the plant can be used from the bulb to the fluffy fronds which ...

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Beetroot

Beetroot is a sweet and earthy flavoured root vegetable. It can be cooked and eaten a number of ways but you can rarely go wrong with a splash of r...