Maybe a week more of mango gluttony, then it’s over for another year. So here’s the mango upside down cake recipe, so I remember it for next year.
My favourite dish to take to a party is always little tarts. They make such easily transportable finger food, so easy, and they look so party-food. Simple shortcrust pastry, lightly blind baked, then half filled with a slightly lemony cheesecake mix, topped with mango jelly. Recipe:
Back in midwinter, I posted a picture of my new, very beautiful fruit bowl – a Yule gift – filled with winter fruit – oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruit. Back in midwinter, I posted a picture of my new, very beautiful fruit bowl – a Yule gift – filled with winter fruit – oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruit.
I don’t get frost in my sub-tropical garden, so winter is a good growing season here. It is the frizzle days of summer that are the challenge, when a whole garden can be wiped out in one brutal day. But just like gardeners in frost-prone climates, you develop a range of strategies to work the odds.
The grasshoppers love kale, but that’s ok, because the chooks love grasshoppers…
If you are a vegetarian, probably better if you don’t click. We hit a wallaby on the way home a little while ago. It was just on dusk, right when the wallabies become most active, and it just jumped out right under the van.
A container of cooked Madagascar beans. I cooked them today in the slow cooker while there was heaps of solar power. We’ll probably have them…
Isn’t she the prettiest little chick? She’s an Australian Game, a tall long-legged breed, excellent mums, decent layers, decent meat birds, and very good at foraging for themselves.
There are many, many organic remedies for cabbage moth caterpillars (and the web moth caterpillars that will be next to arrive). There are nets and traps and fake moths and eggshells and trichogramma wasps and dipel. But the only one I reckon is worth the time and effort for results is timing.
Strawberries should be a luxury food. A couple of months of indulgence a year, sweetened by a whole year of waiting. There’s this thing with seasonal luxury foods, that they start out expensive and the price encourages every kind of scammy hereticism, pushing them to grow until you get something that is cheap and very very nasty.