This year’s soap is made and maturing in the cupboard, hopefully safe from the mice who think it is literally good enough to eat. It will go whiter as it matures, and by Christmas it will be hard, white, fine grained soap with a nice clean smell and good bubbles. So nice to have so much of my Christmas shopping done already!
This is one for the breakfast party people. I’m not sure how it would go for preserving. For me, lemon curd is lemon season party food rather than a pantry item. This time of year, with lemons and eggs both in season, is it’s time to shine.
The glossy paper and coloured dyes in the supermarket specials brochure insert in the newspaper makes it hopeless for fire lighting. And no good for mulch or worms either. I took it out to put in the recycling – I hope they can do something with it – and got distracted into browsing it while waiting for the fire to catch. And then intrigued. And then on a quest, to…
I was looking back through my blog this week, looking for topics that have been neglected for a while. And I realised that I haven’t done a “Sustainable Seafood” post for so long. And it is because I haven’t had fresh caught fish to experiment with for so long.
Liz at Suburban Tomato did a post recently of Top 5 – Pantry items for the Kitchen Gardener. I was going to comment, but hard as I tried, I couldn’t get anywhere near down to five. But it did inspire me to start thinking: what are the pantry staples that I’d really want to have on hand if someone called me into a challenge like Fiona’s recent one (that I…
Rice has long been one of those foods I’m conflicted about. Mainly because of the environmental ethics. I’ve always thought I didn’t have the right conditions for growing it, I didn’t want to contribute to the degradation of the Murray Darling basin by buying Australian rice, and imported rice really isn’t in any version of a 100 mile diet.
I hung the quilts out to air on the verandah clothes line, forgot about them for just a couple of days, and when I went to bring them in, a pair of microbats had decided that hanging upside down inside the folds was a perfect place for a nap.
A high level international workshop has just released a report warning that the combination of global warming (with the oceans warming faster than the land…
I have been mulling over which of my food hates to target this year. It’s not an easy decision. I have a few of them. It’s not that I am a purist – hey I’m a great believer in fairy floss at a fete and I’ve even been known to stop at McDonalds for coffee at 6 am. But industrialised fake food deceptively marketed as real food sets me off on…
Today is my blogiversary. This time last year, I had just finished helping sew together the quilt we made as a community project, as part of the 350 campaign to highlight 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as the threshold to safe levels.