Edamame are green soy beans, and most Australians anyway only ever encounter them in a sushi bar. They’re easy to grow in a garden though, and to me, they work so well as a snack food because they have a distinct nuttiness to them. They remind me more of boiled peanuts than anything else.
My glut crop at the moment is edamame, which are just green soybeans. If they are planted at the right time in the right conditions they are hugely prolific and pretty trouble free.
Today is just the second day in the last two months that it hasn’t rained, a gorgeous sky blue day but my garden is still…
It’s not a very interesting photo till you know what it is. This is the culvert crossing our creek after over a month now of pretty non-stop rain and several floods. The next crossing down is so brown that you cannot see the bottom and the river as it runs through town is the colour of cocoa. But this one is clear.
Isn’t this stunning. It’s the seed end of a tromboncino, a cross section slice. The seeds are not developed yet. I was about to cook it, but couldn’t resist a photo first.
Kasundi is a good way to make bottling tomatoes good enough for gifts and treats, worth the $5 or $6 a jar they would be worth if you paid yourself for the time it takes. It’s a rich, spicy but not too hot, tomato sauce, great with eggs or baked beans (or eggs and baked beans!), or with dhall or dosa or on bean burgers or kangaroo burgers or a…
We were all flooded in over the weekend, so we invited neighbours for a curry night. Curry nights are a great kind of potluck dinner, needing no co-ordination, and allowing people to go simple or as gourmet as they like.