I’m planting another round of all my root staples – carrots, parsnips, spring onions, beetroots – starting seeds off in the shadehouse, and planting out the seedlings started last month. If I do just a tray like this every month, we have a good steady supply. But my main little task today is to dig up some turmeric to take some rhizomes for planting.
This week’s Muesli Bar Challenge recipe features oranges. It is coming to the end of the navel orange season, and once they finish there will be a gap of a few months until the beginning of the Valencia season.
It is one of the reasons I use a lunar planting calendar though: in the hurly burly of arbitary fixed deadlines, it reminds me to make time for the more elastic but more real deadlines of the seasons. And then, by doing so I create real wealth – good food, health, beauty, integity, freedom.
I am on a bit of a roll with the mandarin, ricotta and honey flavours. Plus mandarins are getting towards the end of their season so I’m eager to make the most of them. This one is, like last week’s cake, super easy. The flavours are similar -this one is a bit stronger flavoured – but the texture is quite different, more like a cheesecake.
Wow. I’m over half way through the school year, and I haven’t lost a Muesli Bar Challenge yet. Even I’m surprised. I expected at some stage to push the low-fat, low-sugar bar just a bit too low!
So much is just on the cusp of changing at the moment.
Blondies are like brownies, almost like semi-set cake mix. But for a lunch box they need a bit of robustness. So these are cakey, brownie texture, but stay intact till little lunch.
If I were at home today I would be planting potatoes. In my frost free garden, I would be planting them straight out – making…
Not a recipe, just a reminder. I have at long last moved on from Tangelo Breakfast Compote as my favourite breakfast. There’s still a few tangelos, but the avocados are so beautifully in season now, and there’s also still plenty of limes.
I was asked to pick my very favourite of the Muesli Bar Challenge recipes, and this is it. The Passionfruit Cheesecake Slice is the most popular recipe, but this one is my all time favourite.