The Breakfast Challenge – Broad Bean Dip with Soldiers

October 28, 2011

This one is cheating really.  It’s not a new recipe at all. It’s just Broad Beans on Toast blended. We are still picking lots of broad beans but it is getting towards the end of the season, and there’s been six weeks now when, if I ask  ”what would you like for breakfast?” the answer [...]

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The Breakfast Challenge – Broad Beans on Toast

September 16, 2011

I picked the first broad beans of the season this morning, and I cannot remember why I ever thought broad beans boring.  There was a time though, when I grew them just because they were so healthy and treated them as a filler.   Maybe I’ve just become a better cook? But we fought over [...]

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Tofu and Winter Vegetable Lunchbox

August 23, 2011

My partner’s favourite lunch is microwaved tofu and vegetables with chili (he’s a chili fiend).  I’m not a huge fan of either tofu or microwaves, but hey, I’m not purist. It’s mostly garden vegetables, and I am a huge fan of them! I’m not a huge fan of tofu because soy beans contain a number [...]

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Moroccan Style Spiced Kangaroo Mince

April 19, 2011

We hosted a meeting over dinner at our place, which meant 10 people for a casual dinner on a weeknight.  I wanted to use kangaroo – kangaroo is my red meat of choice, for a whole heap of reasons – ethical, ecological, nutritional, and not least economic. Kangaroo mince is less than $7 a kilo, beef [...]

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Kangaroo Stuffed Squash

March 30, 2011

The kangaroo stuffed peppers were so successful that I decided to try the same stuffing with squash, which is also at the peak of its season. I hadn’t intended to blog them, but they were so good. The Recipe: The stuffing is the same one I made for the stuffed peppers.  There were only the [...]

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The Garlic Agrees

March 26, 2011

After just a few days ago posting about how my garlic seems to like being planted much earlier than conventional wisdom,  today I found an errant garlic that escaped harvesting last year, and has decided all of its own accord that it is garlic planting time.  Nice to have a vegetable agreeing with me!

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Roots and Perennials Planting Days in early Autumn – Garlic Planting Time

March 22, 2011

Today, along with the usual round of mixed carrots and spring onions, and half a dozen beetroot seedlings, I’m planting garlic. Lots of garlic. It’s very early for garlic.  Conventional wisdom is Anzac Day at the earliest, more traditionally midwinter solstice.  But I’ve been planting earlier and earlier, and last year’s early planted garlic did [...]

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Thai Fish Cakes

March 19, 2011

Bream is not one of my favourite fish, but it’s one of the easier ones to catch, and Lewie likes fishing. Bream are a good source of omega 3 and listed as sustainable, so it’s very unfortunate that they’re a bit bland and soft for my taste.  I could never get appropriately excited about the [...]

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Summer Kangaroo Kebabs in Green Paw Paw Marinade

January 1, 2011

We celebrated New Year’s Eve at a barbeque with neighbours. It’s one of the things I love about living in a functioning community – socialising within walking distance.  I could go on about greenhouse footprints but really it’s enough that I can drink half a bottle of red wine and wander home in the starlight [...]

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