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wellington womble

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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 1:31 am Post subject:
But they have fruit on, in March! I'm dying to hear when they ripen. I have a perfectly good south facing conservatory. I don't need a washing machine in it. Clean clothes are so overrated.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 7:23 am Post subject:
Can't remember if anyone mentioned pink tomatoes. They arene't really very pink, but not quite red. I was also going to suggest purple carrots, but you already thought of them.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 11:10 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

But they have fruit on, in March! I'm dying to hear when they ripen. I have a perfectly good south facing conservatory. I don't need a washing machine in it. Clean clothes are so overrated.

I bet they wouldn't be so leggy in a conservatory, so could probably sit on your appliances

The blurb on the seeds said "year round indoors" so I decided to test this

Green Rosie

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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 11:26 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Do you think flowers count as one of your give a day? If so, I think we're sorted!

They might not count but they might encourage her to eat the pretty plate of food

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 12:53 pm Post subject:

You mention beans, French, runner or broad? Because you can get red seeded broad beans and on Mr Fothergill's I just found https://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/Vegetable-Seeds/Broad-Bean-Karmazyn.html#.VP7fruH3Ri0 - pale pink and they claim will keep their colour when cooked.

You can get pink skinned and patterned oca (from Real Seeds), but I am not sure about whether the oxalic acid would be an issue with little ones. A lot of fun to dig up though, and would be buried treasure at the end of the year when everything else is starting to fade.

Some of the chicories and endives are pinky-red or speckled (as are lettuce, already mentioned I think). Bit bitter perhaps.

Red onions, spring onions and shallots all come in what is effectively pink, and cooked, would be nice and sweet.

There's a squash called Pink Banana, but how pink it is, I am not sure, and the flesh is orange.

I personally take some of the edible flowers with a pinch of salt so to speak, esp as I'd be paranoid about small someones thinking most flowers are worth a nibble, but at your own risk: https://www.thompson-morgan.com/edible-flowers

Microgreens, or rather micro pinks, for a quick harvest: beetroot and radish - probably quite a deep pink but not quite red or purple. Possibly red kales would be brighter/lighter as seedlings too - https://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/micro-greens.htm

Finally I know you said you don't need help getting fruit down little gullets, but for fun, if you blend (in a blender I mean) frozen raspberries with a little double cream, it makes a kind of instant, dayglo pink ice cream (icing sugar to sweeten in the unlikely event you need to - may also work with the other red fruits).

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 2:39 pm Post subject:
There are some lovely cheats you can use. Par boil parsnips with a slice of beetroot in the water before roasting. You can also do the same with butterbeans and anything white, like celeriac. Ypu could probably even slice up aubergines and courgettes and do the same. Perhaps saute some courgettes with a slice of beetroot in the pain?

dpack

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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 3:06 pm Post subject:
the beetroot cheat works rather well with pasta and rice

wellington womble

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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 4:02 pm Post subject:
Beetroot with everything! I'm not sure if she likes it. She doesn't like carrots (strange child)

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
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Location: Somerset

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 7:55 pm Post subject:
No, just a bit of juice - I do a Cancer Research fundraiser every year and use beetroot juice to 'pink up' my dishes. Raspberry juice works for sweet stuff! Or you could make red velvet cupcakes with 'hidden' beetroot...

Shan

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Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 8:13 pm Post subject:
Use the beetroot to colour stuff. She doesn't have to eat the beetroot

wellington womble

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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 8:40 pm Post subject:
This particular mission is overt vegetable PR, rather than covert vitamins or natural food colouring. Not that I'm averse to sneaky vegetables! I do have some 'secret recipes'. Lots of good ideas here. I wonder if red Brussels are tasty?

Shan

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Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 15 9:10 pm Post subject:
Anything is tasty with bacon... and bacon is pink.

wellington womble

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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 15 9:52 am Post subject:
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Mutton

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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 15 2:39 pm Post subject:
Occa comes in pink. Real Seed company does it.

wellington womble

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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 15 9:10 pm Post subject:
That was supposed to be : o ) but without spaces it comes out as )

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