More pumpkin
pumpkin muffins I know. It’s exciting. I have finally cooked up the rest of my 6+kg pumpkin. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins and roasted pumpkin with our roast beef dinner. pumpkin bread pumpkin muffins Mix 2 cups SRF, 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup dried fruit (eg chopped dates, sultanas, cranberries) or choc chips (or both) […]
Cooking
I try to make a habit of cooking lots on Sundays. I always bake for school lunches, but now that I’m working more, I try to make meals to store in the fridge and freezer, as well as getting food organized and planning the weekly menu. Menu planning is something we have done for about […]
25/1/12
As I was inspecting my baby seaside daisies, which are being crowded by dense chamomile, I looked up and gasped audibly, in surprise. Tears even sprang to my eyes when I realized that new leaves were sprouting from the beautiful weeping mulberry that I had given up for dead only a week ago. In my […]
Mizuna
The lovely SJ asked what mizuna is. We use it as a salad green, similar to rocket, because of its strong peppery taste. I think it’s a brassica and it’s Japanese. It’s fairly easy to grow. We have it growing with our tomatoes. We’ve got three big bushes of the stuff, but because of its […]
Fangorn garden salad
I’m totally excited to share about the salad that we grew in our garden. I eat salad all the time. To prevent it from getting boring, we add lots of different ingredients. This salad is different because it has a real ‘bite!’ it’s quite tangy/spicey. Fangorn Garden Salad Cos lettuce Butter lettuce Mizuna Vietnamese mint […]
Plaiting Garlic!
They say that it’s a good idea to plant garlic on the winter solstice and harvest it on the summer solstice, and we pretty much did that this year (albeit a few weeks late on the summer end). I remember planting out 365 garlic cloves with Monte way back in June. We planted different varieties, […]
More healthy snacking…
If it’s there, kids will eat it, right? If they grow it, they’ll eat it, right? In our quest to provide tempting healthy snacking treats for our children, snow peas are all the rage. If you know how sweet food is, when picked straight from the tree/vine/bush/etc, then it will come as no surprise to […]
Garden glories
This is the dream. After living in the cabin for over two years – constantly reminded that we had no electricity save that which was powered by the sunlight and a dab of wind – I missed many things. Space, for one. Garden, another. For the first time in a while now I am completely […]
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