What could be more satisfying, frustrating, and completely fulfilling as a day spent between vegetable patch and preserving? I’m sure the majority could think of lot’s of things but I’m know I’m not alone in thinking it nigh on the perfect day. From an early trip to the farmer’s market, I launched straight into bottling […]
The days between Christmas and New Year tend to be such a pleasant interlude. Lot’s of pottering and purging and rearranging. There is a timeless quality of not being exactly sure what day of the week, or even what day it is. Not only a very pleasant time but also strangely productive. After five or […]
Melbourne is a crazy town. Early spring was hot and dry. Early summer, cold and wet. Much as I prefer the heat, it’s much cheerier to embrace what you’ve got rather than pine for what you lack. So I whipped up a comforting, super cheap, super easy slow cooker beans and rice dinner. Hearty and […]
The rhythmic ebb and flow of my days is currently absent. Many factors are involved and must simply be borne for the present. Havoc is being wrought upon my meal planning as a result. A most unpleasant result. Tonight in a mad dash to serve hungry, over tired Ankle BIters a meal in a 10 […]
Today is a day of absolutely no originality at Chez KP. It has however, been a day of delicious food. Sunday is my sleep in day which leaves the Bread Winner on morning duty. So the less said about breakfast the better. Or in my case, I could simply say ‘what breakfast?’. By lunchtime, things […]
Market day makes me want to stuff as much of that freshly picked vegetable goodness into my gob as humanly possible in one day. As each day of the week passes by, they are that little bit less fresh, that little bit less nutritious. Always good until the end though. This morning, I got caught […]
photo by 5k1nnyt1g3r, some rights reserved Silverbeet and Mushroom pasta bake 10 large silverbeet leaves, blanched and chopped 3 large field mushroom, sliced 1 onion, finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon butter 8 sun dried tomatoes, roughly chopped 1/2 cup cream pasta of your choice (I used […]
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 […]
I don’t know if I am just uber passionate about my food loves or that I can’t grow enough of anything to give a glut large enough to actually make me sick of certain foods. Or maybe a little of both. I let the last batch of asparagus run wild rather than eat it with […]
Dinner tonight was eerily like dinner last night. But not. Last night was steamed vegetables on noodles with haloumi. Tonight was steamed vegetables on noodles with tahini dressing. Despite the ingredients being much the same, the flavour was vastly different. I love the versatility of the simplest vegetarian meals. In fact, had I any tamari, […]