I cleared out the spent snow peas this morning and mulched up where they were ready to plant out some tomatoes next fruiting planting break. I ended up with this bowl of pea seed. Now the dilemma: should I save them to plant next year, or make hummus of them?
We don’t often have dessert for dinner, but I quite like dessert for breakfast. Real egg custard is sooooo easy, I really don’t get custard powder. Eggs are also a superfood, high in protein, B12 and choline, which is brain food.
Conventionally they are planted in spring and harvested in autumn. But when I’ve had a patch established before, I’ve just let it go and dug up a sweet potato or two whenever I want one.
Some friends for dinner who had never eaten kangaroo before and were a bit dubious. In this pie, you really can’t tell the meat is kangaroo – it could just as easily be chuck steak. Not that I usually try to disguise it – kangaroo is our red meat of choice these days, for all sorts of reasons – ethical, ecological, cost, health benefits – but taste is also up…
If you don’t grow them, you probably don’t know garlic scapes. They’re the best bit of the garlic plant, and since so much of our garlic is imported from China, a bit that is not often seen in shops or markets.
The easy way, they all say, is two fruit and five veg a day. It fits the Witches Kitchen definition of good food. If you eat mostly fresh, local, in season produce, the rest isn’t going to make a whole lot of difference, to your health, the planet’s health, or your wallet’s health.
Yesterday’s planting. Note just three zucchini seeds, three tromboncino seeds, three cucumber seeds. I’m being restrained!
Each morning early I’ve been picking strawberries, half for the chooks, slugs and all, and half for me. Luckily half is as many as we can eat, but it does seem very decadent for the chooks to be getting a punnet of strawberries a day! I’m thinking I should put out some beer-traps.
Last broad bean recipe for the season I think.
Today we pass the point on the day-length bell curve where it flattens right out. The days are now nearly as long in the southern hemisphere, and short in the northern hemisphere, as they will ever get.