Many food plants are very good at calculating whether the days are getting longer or shorter, It’s how they tell what season it is. The scientific term is “photoperiodism”, and there’s more about it on the gardening page. There’s no point in cheating with photoperiodism. Plants that fell for tricks like that became extinct a long time ago!
We had our annual extended family get-together last weekend, and I was delegated to bring kebabs for the barbeque. Given my current enthusiasm for kangaroo…
This recipe is not so much a way of preserving them as a way of making them a lot more popular (although it will last a long time in the fridge if someone doesn’t eat it first, which is highly unlikely because it is seriously delicious, for example on rye bread with cheese or in pitta bread with hummus, mmmm.)
This is one of my all time favourite meals, deceptively simple: Roast Vegetables as Themselves. It’s simple, fast, cheap, and if you use fresh vegetables in season, amazingly good.
Today and tomorrow are the first leafy green planting days of the year. Witches are not superstitious, so I’m a bit skeptical about the lunar…
This recipe has three superfoods – oats, eggs, and mangoes. So all in all, it’s a great before school or work breakfast recipe. It is also really fast and easy for busy mornings, and can be eaten one-handed whilst searching for socks.
You need a decent food processor for this recipe – nothing fancy, just a real food processor and not a piece of K Mart Chinese junk that looks like a food processor and says food processor on the label, but has working parts made of plastic. (Which incidentally and off the track, always make me think of cargo cult practices).