My new favourite breakfast is sourdough cottage cheese pikelets (or hotcakes if you are in USA).
I’m harvesting squash, tomatoes and capsicum from the garden, so this is my current favourite breakfast.
The picture doesn’t really do justice to the hearty, spicy, creamy goodness of this. It is one of my favourite breakfasts, and so fast and easy I often make it just for me.
Buckwheat isn’t actually a cereal, but seeds of a flowering plant from the smartweed family (which also includes weeds like dock and three cornered jack, along with rhubarb and sorrel). It is supposed to be easy to grow in the garden in the right climate – but mine isn’t right.
The first of the new season apples have just arrived at our local Farmers Market, coming down from the Tablelands (within our 160 km range as the crow flies), and there are still some late season peaches too, so just for a few weeks the seasons overlap.
Banana season peaks in February in this part of the world (northern NSW).
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…