The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Baking, Garden, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood, Vegetarian on Sep 27th, 2008
Today in Melbourne it was 28 degrees. That’s my perfect. Warm enough for scanty clothing, cool anough to run. It’s the best of all possible worlds. Pure bliss. Between running and gardening and cooking, I lived life to the full today. I’m too weary too talk about it so here’s a pictorial representation of all [...]
Posted in Garden on Sep 17th, 2008
A beautiful spring day and I have a camera again.
Posted in Garden on Sep 16th, 2008
Today was the day at Chez KP. I’m trying hard to up my level of garden proficiency but also planning. In years gone by, I’ve done one batch of planting per season. The downside of this method is that each vegetable type crops at once and then home grown produce is done for the season. [...]
Posted in Garden on Sep 15th, 2008
If there is one food on this planet that I absolutely loathe and detest, it’s canteloupe. Rockmelon. Watever you choose to call it, I can’t stand the stuff.
photo by Mugley, some rights reserved
I recently ordered bunch of seeds. Thrown in as a freebie were 5 organic rockmelon ‘noir des carmes’ seeds.
So if there are [...]
Posted in Garden on Sep 9th, 2008
Mulch, mulch and more mulch. I’m determined to get the garden beds well insulated before the summer sun comes and attempts to suck every bit of life out of them. Eucalypt mulch under the natives, pine bark mulch under the nectarine and peach trees and more pea straw on the vegie beds. It all looks [...]
Posted in Garden, stockpiling on Sep 6th, 2008
Which is a nice way of saying we had scrambled eggs for dinner because i spent too much time in the garden to cook the dinner I had planned. It was a beautiful warm spring day in Melbourne. Perfect for the gazillion outdoor tasks awaiting my attention. Apart from some general tidying and weeding of [...]
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