Bassets were bred for sniffing.  It doesn’t matter too much what it is, sniffing is good as far as a basset is concerned.  Big basset was helping me today with the potager harvest.  And by help I mean checking things out by giving them a good sniff.

I’m not convinced that Fortnum will be able to pick out all the bugs but having him around makes gardening a heap more fun.

This sniffing is quite methodical.  Not a quick once over it has to be methodical to pass the basset test.

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Well except in the case of little basset who is such a busy basset he’s a little more discerning.  A quick once over before moving on to the next thing.

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And in his case, that usually means mischief like finding something he can take off and chew or hide.  Like a trowel for instance. Easy pickings from the trusty trug.

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Talking of the trug.  It’s been part of the harvest routine again.

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Today was the cauliflowers.  That have a chequered history.  Two blew away in the wind.  So I’ve only got 4 that have made the grade and I’m delighted to say two were ready for picking today.

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But these cauliflowers have been already been a feast for something.  Can you see the daylight shining through the holes in their leaves. The remaining red cabbages have been suffering the same fate in the last week.

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And here is the reason why!

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But we don’t let a white butterfly deter us here with our potager ambitions here at Domestic Executive HQ.

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It’s too hot today (over 30 degrees) t do too much outside so we’ve been busy in the kitchen blanching cauliflower for the freezer and making a cauliflower cheese to go with our roast beef for Sunday dinner.

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With scorching temperatures again today it mightn’t have been the best choice to do a roast dinner.  But, cauliflower cheese is my favourite way to each cauliflower and I like roast beef best with cauliflower cheese.  Oh, that or baked beans and I didn’t feel it was quite the right thing to eat my first cauliflower from the potager with a tin of beans!

What would you eat cauliflower cheese with?  On it’s own maybe, do tell!