Ingredients (for 2 people)

• 2 chicken breasts
• 8 slices of bacon
• wild rocket
• 8 cherry vine tomatoes
• 1/4 of a cucumber
• celery
• half a yellow or red pepper
• dressing of your choice

Instructions

1. Grill chicken and bacon
2. Meanwhile gently wash other ingredients and chop where apppropriate
3. Arrange salad ingredients as a ‘bed’ on plate
4. Chop chicken and bacon into bite-sized chunks
5. Add dressing and serve

Summer pudding made from soft fruits picked in the garden is a special treat. The summer pudding recipe can vary according to the fruit available.

Ingredients:

One punnet Bedfordshire Giant blackberries

One punnet  Tullamine raspberries

One punnet  Ben Lomond blackcurrants

Three tablespoons of honey

Five slices of good bread

Method:

• All the soft fruits were simmered together, with three tablespoons of honey, until the fruit was cooked and the blackcurrants had burst.

• A pudding basin was lined with good bread

• The basin was filled with the cooked berries

• A layer of bread was placed on the top of the berries, and the remaining juice poured over.

• The pudding has to be pressed down, so a saucer was placed on the top and a heavy weight (jar of mincemeat!) was put on top.

• The basin was then left in a cold place for a couple of hours. It should be 24hrs., but it is difficult to resist!

• To serve, the bowl is inverted over a plate, so that the moulded summer pudding drops out.

• Serve with cream.