Comments for Miles Collins http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress Cooking - Photography & More Fri, 09 May 2008 20:57:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 Comment on Heritage Tomatoes by Elsie Nean http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3711 Fri, 09 May 2008 20:34:27 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3711 Miles, Oxheart, tigerella, lemon plum tomatoes and brown coloured komato look superb. What a shame that we cannot buy them at our local supermarket. The last time I really enjoyed eating a variety of tomatoes was in Italy. I had some off a vine today from the supermarket and it was absolutely tasteless. I heard today that Gordon Ramsey has called for it to be made illegal for restaurants to use vegetables that are out of season. This is to support the local economy and should fire the imagination of chefs! That said, a chef came on the radio and responded that whilst it was always good to support home grown produce, restaurants would not be able to function exclusively on this. Elsie Miles,
Oxheart, tigerella, lemon plum tomatoes and brown coloured komato look superb. What a shame that we cannot buy them at our local supermarket. The last time I really enjoyed eating a variety of tomatoes was in Italy.
I had some off a vine today from the supermarket and it was absolutely tasteless.
I heard today that Gordon Ramsey has called for it to be made illegal for restaurants to use vegetables that are out of season. This is to support the local economy and should fire the imagination of chefs! That said, a chef came on the radio and responded that whilst it was always good to support home grown produce, restaurants would not be able to function exclusively on this.
Elsie

]]> Comment on Heritage Tomatoes by Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3709 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:11:25 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3709 Miles no doubt you'll bring us pictorial evidence of the results when you come up with the ultimate recipe for oxheart and tigerella tomatoes. Looking forward to it Rod Miles
no doubt you’ll bring us pictorial evidence of the results when you come up with the ultimate recipe for oxheart and tigerella tomatoes.

Looking forward to it
Rod

]]> Comment on Heritage Tomatoes by miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3702 Fri, 09 May 2008 16:06:32 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3702 Rod, That is the challenge, I agree. Whatever I do I know they will taste much better than the above mentioned alternative. Miles Rod,
That is the challenge, I agree. Whatever I do I know they will taste much better than the above mentioned alternative.

Miles

]]> Comment on Heritage Tomatoes by Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3700 Fri, 09 May 2008 12:12:41 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3700 Miles, .... ah yes I remember well our days in the circus... tasselled leotards and fast flying knives and bullet tomatoes.... it's just not the same without you :) Cid Miles,

…. ah yes I remember well our days in the circus… tasselled leotards and fast flying knives and bullet tomatoes…. it’s just not the same without you :)

Cid

]]> Comment on Heritage Tomatoes by Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3697 Fri, 09 May 2008 08:09:33 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3697 Miles presumably you'll have to come up with dishes that will allow to you show off the wonderful shapes of the oxheart and tigerella tomatoes ? It would seem a shame to fine chop them Rod Miles
presumably you’ll have to come up with dishes that will allow to you show off the wonderful shapes of the oxheart and tigerella tomatoes ?
It would seem a shame to fine chop them
Rod

]]> Comment on Heritage Tomatoes by miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3696 Fri, 09 May 2008 07:36:38 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3696 Rod, They do look good don't they? You are right about growing your own, there really is no comparison, especially if they have benefited from a good long summer. When you look at those oxheart and tigerella with the amazing stripes it makes you wonder why supermarkets don't sell these instead of those boring, tasteless cherry and salad varieties. Miles Rod,
They do look good don’t they? You are right about growing your own, there really is no comparison, especially if they have benefited from a good long summer.
When you look at those oxheart and tigerella with the amazing stripes it makes you wonder why supermarkets don’t sell these instead of those boring, tasteless cherry and salad varieties.
Miles

]]> Comment on Heritage Tomatoes by Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3695 Fri, 09 May 2008 07:30:57 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/heritage-tomatoes#comment-3695 Miles I must say when I grew my own tomatoes last year they were a revelation. Such is the blandness of shop sold ones I never buy them. I could not believe the difference in my own The above look fantastic, no doubt better than the supermarket ones, let us know if they taste as good as the ones you've grown Rod Miles
I must say when I grew my own tomatoes last year they were a revelation.
Such is the blandness of shop sold ones I never buy them.
I could not believe the difference in my own

The above look fantastic, no doubt better than the supermarket ones, let us know if they taste as good as the ones you’ve grown
Rod

]]> Comment on The Return of the Hogweed by miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-return-of-the-hogweed#comment-3694 Fri, 09 May 2008 07:12:57 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-return-of-the-hogweed#comment-3694 Cid, Maybe when I am too old for this lark- I'll start next week :) Miles Cid,
Maybe when I am too old for this lark- I’ll start next week :)

Miles

]]> Comment on The Return of the Hogweed by Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-return-of-the-hogweed#comment-3693 Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:51 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-return-of-the-hogweed#comment-3693 Miles, A glut of summer squash do I hear? ... that'll be a good opportunity to carve something fabulous, for instance I've recently seen Jonny Depp aka Jack Sparrow, carved into one.... amazing detail too. With natural artistic talent like yours, this could be the way forward :) Cid Miles,

A glut of summer squash do I hear? … that’ll be a good opportunity to carve something fabulous, for instance I’ve recently seen Jonny Depp aka Jack Sparrow, carved into one…. amazing detail too.

With natural artistic talent like yours, this could be the way forward :)

Cid

]]> Comment on The Return of the Hogweed by miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-return-of-the-hogweed#comment-3686 Thu, 08 May 2008 22:17:37 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-return-of-the-hogweed#comment-3686 Cid, Butternut squash is one of my favourite squashes, they are very versatile. I shall keep you updated on the monster pumpkins but I fear a huge glut of summer squash before that. Miles Cid,
Butternut squash is one of my favourite squashes, they are very versatile. I shall keep you updated on the monster pumpkins but I fear a huge glut of summer squash before that.
Miles

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