Use your sweet home grown carrots to make this rich cake. The flower in the image above is the beautiful carrot flower. I hope you enjoy this cake. Carrot Cake Ingredients Carrot cake: 200 g finely grated raw carrots 4 eggs, lightly beaten 2 cups plain flour 3 tsp baking powder 200 g soft light brown sugar 1 tsp ground nutmeg 1 tsp ground ginger … Continue reading Carrot Cake
After having harvested the peanuts from our garden, they have dried and are cured and ready for eating and making some delicious cookies. This recipe was given to me by a dear friend Elizabeth and I would like to share it with you Peanut and Almond cookies Ingredients: 500g Raw Peanuts (skinned and chopped finely, see note below) or regular roasted but unsalted, chopped finely, … Continue reading Peanut and Almond Cookies
Apricots are in season in Sydney at the moment and and over the next few weeks they will be at their ripe perfection. Its a perfect time to make some delicious apricot jam for your morning toast. Apricot Jam Ingredients 1.8 kg apricots, firm, ripe and soft (flesh only no kernel) 350 ml water (50 ml per 300 gr of fruit) 5 … Continue reading Apricot Jam
The following is a list of things you can plant in December in Sydney, a temperate zone: Basil Beans (dwarf and climbing) Beetroot Cape Gooseberry Capsicum Carrot Celery Chilli Choko Cucumber Eggplant Kohlrabi Leeks Lettuce Luffa Marrow Mustard greens Okra Pumpkin Radish Rockmelon Silverbeet Squash Sunflower Sweet corn Tomato Turnip Watermelon Zucchini Flower of the Month – Red Miniature Daliah Continue reading What to plant in December
This recipe uses healthy chickpeas in a rich tomato sauce. It can be made ahead for a healthy lunch accompanied by some steamed rice or with crusty bread. Chickpeas with Tomato Sauce Ingredients 4 slices of bacon chopped finely 1 carrot, chopped finely 1 brown onion chopped finely 1 stalk of celery chopped finely 1 tbs olive oil 3 cups of tomato passata 1 … Continue reading Chickpeas With Tomato Sauce
This recipe is a blending of the popular lasagne and the eggplant moussaka in layers with tomato and bechamel sauces. This recipe use the rich oven roasted tomato sauce that we posted earlier here Eggplant and Lasagne Ingredients Pre cooked lasagne sheets 1 eggplant 1 1/2 cups oven baked tomato sauce 2 cups grated parmesan cheese 1 L milk 120 g butter 2/3 cup plain … Continue reading Eggplant and Lasagne
Summer is coming and our tomatoes, eggplant, capsicum and zucchini will be giving us so much produce. This recipe brings these flavours together and makes a tasty full flavoured accompaniment for your barbecued or cold meats. It can be eaten hot or cold, as a dip for the crustiest of bread or used by the spoonful to flavour other dishes. Peperonata Ingredients 2 tblsp olive … Continue reading Peperonata
Phil has kindly shared a family recipe with us and it is such a versatile one. Here is what he has to say about it. “This recipe is for a basic one bowl cake which as you will see can then be modified into different forms. Feel free to experiment – for example, leave out the cocoa and you have a plain cake. Most importantly, have fun … Continue reading Aunty Pat’s Chocolate Cake
Banana bread is always a delicious accompaniment to a cup of coffee or tea. The flavour of this cake is enhanced by the the addition of coconut. With the hot weather there are always a couple of bananas that ripen quickly so why not give this recipe a try. Coconut Banana Bread Ingredients 2 cups Self Raising flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 cup dessicated … Continue reading Coconut Banana Bread
Eggplant has been cultivated in Asia since prehistory and introduced to the Mediterranean in the middle ages. It is a very versatile fruit that can be cooked in many ways. Growth habits and planting needs Eggplant like a sunny position and a soil pH below 6.0, so acidic. Test the soil and amend with lime if over this. Because eggplants are susceptible to soil born … Continue reading Growing Eggplant
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