We held our ninth harvest supper back on October 17th, but I’ve only just got around to resurrecting our blog! It was a good harvest in 2019 but again quite an early one: the climbing beans were well over by the time we had our supper, the tomatoes had finished, the cavalo nero had been invaded by beasties but we did have onions (harvested earlier in the summer), courgettes and chard! And our apple and pear trees yet again produced lovely fruit from September, with pears ripening off the tree in October. So our menu was as follows:

Elspeth’s Anglo-French onion soup (it uses white wine and marmite)

Jenny’s delicious pear and Wensleydale soup

Madeleine’s courgette and puy lentil moussaka

Linden’s fantastic cavalo nero, chard, apple, pear, raisin salad

Elspeth’s French Chard Tart

Linda’s fabulous crunchy apple crumble with ice-cream from Estey