My Home Grown Organic Onion, Courgette and Pepper BBQ Parcels

Here is my idea for Organic Onion, Courgette and Pepper BBQ Parcels.

Ingredients

Serves 2-4 People

1 or 2 Courgette (Depending on size)
1 Large Onion
1 Red or Orange Bell Pepper
Garlic (If you like garlic that is.)
Olive Oil
Real Best Butter
Salt
Pepper

Methord

1.) Peel and wash an onion. Wash the pepper and courgette then dice to a uniform size.








2.) Arrange the diced pepper, courgette and onion onto a latge piece of foil. Drizzle olive oil over the top and add salt and pepper to taste. Finally and some small blobs or noggins of real butter to help with the cooking and to add extra flavour.

3.) Finally fold up the foil around the ingredients to form the parcel so they look like cornish pasties. Form little holding flaps on either end so it is easy to lift onto and off the BBQ.

4.) Cook on the BBQ on some medium coals for around 20 - 25 minutes (Depending how hot your BBQ is.)

Alternative for this idea can include potato and onion with butter and cheese. Or why not do a refreshing hot fruit salad. This methord of cooking is ideal for the vegetarian who does not like meat on the BBQ.

I hope you enjoy this recipe idea with produce that has been grown in your garden or on your allotment.

Bon appetit!!!

The_Snail

My Winter Onions

On Friday I harvested my winter onions which I planted in late October 2005. They where planted as onion sets in unmanured ground before we started to have the bad frosts so they could get a good start to help then to stand up to the bad winter weather. They grew steadily over the autumn then in the middle of November and Early December we started to have the onset of winter with rain and night time frosts which finished most of the tender crops of like the caugettes and the runner beans. The winter onions stopped growing during the winter period and sat there waiting for the onset of spring and the warmer milder days. April arrived and the weather was getting warmer, the birds where singing and busy building the nests ready for there up and coming family of hungry chicks. The winter onions also had started to show signs of re-growth, so a good amount of fertilizer was added to the ground just before we had some rain so it would all get washed in and help to give the onions a good boost and to get them growing strong ready for a July harvest. The following months care consisted of basically weeding and watering on dry days. Then Friday 14th of July I harvested the winter onions and I was very pleased indeed with the results. The winter onion harvest was of a better quality and flavour that the previous summer 2005 crop. So this year I will be certainly putting winter onion sets on my shopping list ready for hopefully a good crop in summer 2007.

The_Snail