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A large pile of leafy greens, lots of different shades and textures, all of the named ones pretty identifiable in there. At the top, you can just see the bottom of an EzyYo container with some yoghurt in it, a blue plate with a block of white cheese, four eggs, and a bowl of red cherry tomatoes. On the right, you can see half of an unbaked pie crust filled with baking paper and beans ready for blind baking.

Picnic 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, lemon basil, dill, oregano, parsley, sorrel, curly kale, dino kale, rocket, warrigal greens, molokhia. So I made a last minute pie to take to a picnic lunch.

Spinach and Feta Gnocchi with Mushrooms

I’m starting to pick the first of the season’s real spinach. I have silver beet growing most of the year – there’s a couple of months in midsummer when it’s a bit too vulnerable to fungus diseases, grasshoppers and bolting – but with successive planting I can get it most months. And it will substitute nicely for spinach in most recipes. But there are some recipes where only real spinach…