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These are the first potatoes out of the garden this season. I'd be lying if I pretended they were early earlies - I don't expect to be eating my Home Guard much before end of May or early June.
These were left overs I missed from last years harvest (quite how you can miss fairly large spuds is a mystery) and they stored in the ground pretty well until I dug over the soil this weekend.
Back from a very enjoyable ride from Seville to Salamanca, averaging 40 miles a day with the longest being 60 miles.
The Spanish really do like their meats (had some mouth watering secreto iberico, along with the chorizo, chuletons....) so it was something of a relief to get home to a bowl of home grown.
If you've only space for one variety of rhubarb then I'd go for Victoria. It's one of the most popular and deservedly so. Thick reddish pink sticks and flavour wise it beats the Timperley Early and Champagne that I've got growing on the allotment. I don't stew it with sugar, instead I drizzle some runny honey in the bowl and serve with low/no fat yoghurt.
