One word. Fritters.
Working last weekend thrwe my week into complete havoc. Not being able to get to the farmer’s market meant going to a green grocers on Thursday after the supermarket. Aside from the horridness of the greengrocer when I am used to the greengrocers, I’ve had to stretch my fruit and vegetables further as [...]
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Posted in Garden on Nov 21st, 2008
I think I’ve done something clever. I was giving my lemon and feijoa trees a water the other day and I noticed the water is running off the top of the soil dirt. No wonder I struggle with anything non indigenous on the north fence line. So I have sunk a length of plumbing pipe [...]
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Posted in Garden on Nov 17th, 2008
For some reason, since we have lived in our current home, I have had absolutely no luck with lemons. I brought a potted tree with me from our previous home. It had been doing quite well. Until we arrived here. I thought maybe it was time to move it from the pot into the ground. [...]
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Posted in 10 minute meals, Baking, Budget, Carnivorous, Garden, Leftovers, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, thermomix on Nov 4th, 2008
I love Cup Day. There is nothing as ludicrous as a public holiday for a horse race and I love it. We totally dropped the ball on organising anything this year but fortunately we have friends who are just as slack. So an impromptu BBQ was planned at 8.30 this morning.
I had defrosted some wonderful [...]
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Broad Beans would be so tiresome if they were in season all year round. Removing the pods, cooking, skinning. It’s a fair bit of work. Something I’m more than happy to do in spring when they’re in season to experience their fleeting deliciousness.
Joy of joy, despite my poor broad bean plants this year (almost certainly [...]
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Posted in Garden, Seafood on Oct 29th, 2008
Nothing like a gorgeous sunny day to make a woman neglect her indoor tasks in favour of her outdoor tasks. I arrived home from work at lunchtime and thanked my lucky stars I’d planned a quick and easy meal. The next few hours were spent in productive outdoor activity; building up another layer on the [...]
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Posted in Budget, Garden, Vegetarian on Oct 20th, 2008
I was raised on spanakopita or a variation thereof from a week kiddie. Something that strikes me as a little strange when I think about it, given the lack of multiculturalism in suburban Melbourne in the early 70’s. There was a goodly sized Greek community in Melbourne even then but we didn’t have any personal [...]
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Posted in Garden on Oct 17th, 2008
photo by Joel Deluxe, some rights reserved
It’s going to be a hot one in Melbourne today so I was out early giving the vegetable beds a good soaking. As I was filling the watering cans, I gave the side of the tank a tap. It’s half empty. It’s only October. I can’t remember the last [...]
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Lately, Son and Heir greatly objects to staying home all day. He has this driving need for some form of outing every day. It’s a pain in the backside when I don’t want to go anywhere. Like today. All I wanted to do was clean the house and tend to some outdoor tasks that I [...]
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Here is a random nasturtiun from my back yard. Not relevant to anything else I have to say today. Just pretty.
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, I’ll move on to my next random topic. The Junior Landcare Watermelon Challenge. It’s open to Australian children as individuals or as schools. The idea is [...]
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