My lady garden - grow your own

I have early memories growing up as a child in Switzerland, sitting in my dad's allotment tending to my own little patch of carrots. At 19 I moved to England and living mostly in flats, appart from the odd herb, I never got round to growing anything.
But since moving to our current home a few years ago in Spain, we were lucky enough to find a house to rent in the countryside with plenty of space to grow our own and even luckier to be surrounded by already excisting trees of oranges, lemons, avocadoes, pears, grapefruit, persimmon, olives, figs and a grape vine.
More interested in spending time in the kitchen rather than the garden, I decided to grow vegetables and herbs in big pots this year and create my own little edible lady garden. Low maintenance and surprisingly successful! Chillies, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, aubergines, sweetcorn, peppers, radishes, rucola salad, tons of herbs and even my broccoli and cauliflower made it.

What's so special about eggs?

Where to start?! Not only do they taste soooo good but they are also incredibly versatile. You can serve them in dozens of different ways - poached, srambled, fried, boiled, in omelettes, eggs benedict, deviled eggs, tortilla, quiches, used as an ingredient in baked goods, on pizza, in salads, crepes....the list goes on. And of course lets not forgot their nutritious value.
They are also beautiful to look at with their variety of shapes and colours and like magic they appear through a  vent, or otherwise known as the chickens butt!
A little something about the photo above, it was taken at an undeniably very special market and any foodies dream location "La Boqueria" in Barcelona. Seeing all the varieties and magnificient arrays of colours of fruits, vegetables, smoothies, lollies, spices, fish, meat..etc was quite a memorable experience. We ate the best fried eggs with chipirones (baby squid) at one of the many stalls. I have since tried to recreate the same dish, but failed misserably.