Dhall is surprisingly fast and easy – less than 20 minutes from scratch.
This is an adaption of a classic recipe that is usually a bit too sweet and gooey to be suitable for lunchboxes.
Stone Soup is a great recipe for a really low hassle dinner for a large and unknown number of people. The recipe is super simple. Boil a large pot of water and add a smooth river stone and some salt.
I haven’t written a post about gardening for a while, so I thought I should write one about not gardening. At the moment, I feel…
A habit I am working on at the moment is always carrying a water bottle – or two actually – a small one in my handbag and a bigger one in my basket.
My partner came back from a trip to the coast with octopus. I’ve cooked baby octopus before, marinated briefly and cooked fast on the barbeque. But these were a bit larger than the babies I’d cooked before. What to do with them?
In 1998 I spent most of a year living and working in Havana, Cuba. I’m not sure how valuable it was to the Cubans. One of the very first tenets of permaculture is protracted and thoughtful observation, and here I was flying into a completely foreign climate and culture and trying to teach it.