Kale Chips
You all know about kale chips don’t you? Kale in a form that kids will eat? That the pickiest eaters ask for as a snack? In cafes they usually deep fry it, and I find it a bit greasy like that. I like...
View ArticleOkonomiyaki for breakfast
All my cabbages are maturing at once, and it won't be long before it is a race between the cabbage moths getting them and them bolting to seed. So we are eating lots of cabbage. And this is one of the...
View ArticlePickled Red Cabbage
Remember fridge pickles? This is just another variation on that theme, and a really good way to use up cabbage if you are finding that the cabbage moths have ramped up to a level where the last of them...
View ArticlePasta alla Norma (Eggplant Pasta)
Sometimes I think we overelaborate recipes. Last night I made a Middle Eastern style stuffed eggplants for dinner, and it was good, but when I compare it with tonight's Pasta alla Norma, I think it was...
View ArticleBunya nut felafels
It's bunya nut season, and though it's not one of the bi-or-triennial bumper seasons like last year was, it is worth checking the ground around your favourite bunya pines for fallen cones. Here's how I...
View ArticleBarbequed Marinated Eggplant Skewers
I picked a couple of eggplants on my picking walk, and there were at least another three or four needing to be picked this week. It had to be eggplant for dinner. These barbeque skewers turned out so...
View ArticlePicnic Pie
This morning on my picking walk, I picked silver beet, lucullus, chives, spring onion greens, nasturtium leaves, dandelion leaves, chickweed, scurvy weed, aragula, leaf amaranth, sweet potato leaves,...
View ArticleGremolata
This is so simple, yet it is one of my most used recipes this time of year, when both parsley and lemons are in glut and dinner is often a long slow-cooked soup or stew that could do with some...
View ArticleColcannon
Colcannon is Irish mashed potato with cabbage, and it is one of those surprisingly wonderful recipes that have you going "aha! I understand how this became a national dish". It has just four...
View ArticleBeans and the Blue Zones
A mix of black-eyed peas, black seeded snake beans and brown seeded snake beans, all home grown and harvested today, about to go in the slow cooker. Protein, fibre, complex carbs, versatility,...
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