At the moment I am giving away armloads of silverbeet to visitors and using every silverbeet recipe in the repertoire, but any day now I expect the grasshoppers to arrive and the urge to bolt to seed to win out and the bounty will be over. Seasonal eating. Make the best of it while it lasts, then leave it off the menu till next winter.
The fishing hasn’t improved. He’s still catching mostly Australian salmon. Luckily, the recommendations are to eat oily fish at least a couple of times a week, and Australian salmon are one of the best oily fish. And they’re one of the few on the list that are sustainable – gemfish are a threatened species, blue-eye trevalla are often long-line fished, Atlantic salmon are all farmed, and canned tuna is overfished,…
If you’ve been following The Breakfast Challenge then you’ll know I’m a bit ambivalent about porridge. I’m trying to like it. Oats for breakfast are hugely healthy – low GI, cholesterol busting, lots of B vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals – but regular old porridge is a bit bland for my tastes, unless it’s loaded up with brown sugar and cream, which sort of defeats the purpose.
Mulberry season is so short and so prolific, of all the things I am tempted to make jam from, mulberries are it. But even mulberries don’t make it these days.
I’m on a mission to lower my “bad” (LDL) cholesterol. I already eat really well, and I can’t bring myself to consider the “proven to lower cholesterol” margarines so there’s not a lot to play with. Oats, lots of oats, and oat bran, linseeds, and macadamia oil are just about the limit of the adjustments I can make.
This recipe is a riff on Mollie Katzen’s Enchanted Broccoli Forest, or at least it owes some heritage to that inspired combination of broccoli, lemon, eggs and cheese – which you wouldn’t think would work but it so does.
Australian salmon are not a salmon at all, but a sea perch. They’re listed as sustainable and that’s at least partly because they are notoriously not a prized table fish. They are a good source of omega 3 though, and they can be turned into a good fish dinner with a bit of care.
The best way to eat mulberries is to be ten years old and sitting up in the fork of the tree, near naked to save clothes from stains, maybe with some other kids to chat with or maybe just with your thoughts, selecting the fattest purple berries to go directly from tree to mouth. Failing that though, paw paw, strawberry, mulberry and citrus fruit salad is one of those made-in-heaven…
I picked the first of the peas this morning (late because the mice got so many of the early plantings) and I have been waiting for them for just this recipe. Super fast and easy, very low GI, very delicious. Very fresh peas are so sweet, this is almost a sweet paste spread.
I picked the first broad beans of the season this morning, and I cannot remember why I ever thought broad beans boring. There was a time though, when I grew them just because they were so healthy and treated them as a filler.