Eating like Kings ... the delicious homegrown fruits and vegetables

There is nothing more enjoyable than this time of the year when all fruits and vegetables are coming to season. The joy of picking up ripen fruits and vegetables, straight from the garden, and improvise dinner with them is a blissful experience. French beans, tomatoes, blackberries, courgettes, broad beans, apples, you name it. Anything you concoct taste wonderful. There is no comparison to the fruits and vegetables that you buy from the supermarkets. The juice, the flavour, the texture, everything is divine. Moreover, it is Soul feeding. There is nothing more nurturing and heart warming.

In one evening, we cooked a cheese and tomato tart, a ratatouille and a black berry bread. How wonderful!

Another evening we did blackberries, raspberries and strawberries jams.

We have never done so many vegetable conserves, compotes and jams in one year.

There is truly something magic, divine and soul feeding in cooking with homegrown vegetables, in season. Better, is the taste of those wonderful meals and conserves made with the vegetables of your own garden. In the winter months, when the soul needs nurturing, opening one of those conserves or jams is a joy and comfort to the heart.

We would encourage anyone to grow some fruits and vegetables at home. It could be using a small space on a balcony, on a windowsill, on the steps of the front door, or in the garden if you have that luxe. Or better, why not getting an allotment? Although it requires hard work, patience and loving attention, the rewards are sweeter and outreach by far the sweat and labour that it took.

Cheese and homegrown tomatoes tart