Plum and Cinnamon Jam
The first plums of the season are these delicious cherry plums. We have made these into a very nice jam and share the recipe with you. Plum and Cinnamon Jam Ingredients: 1 kg plums 1 kg sugar 1 cinnamon stick Method: Wash 4 x 460ml jam jars with hot soapy water, rinsing them well and place the jars on a tray Place the lids … Continue reading Plum and Cinnamon Jam
Oat and Fruit Slice
Sandra has shared this recipe with us for her delicious and healthy Oat and Fruit slice and I hope you will enjoy making it as much as we enjoyed eating it. Oat and Fruit Slice 1/4 cup margarine or 120mls Grape Seed Oil (Sandra used grape seed oil) 1/2 cup raw sugar 1 cup mixed dried fruit (you can also use a mix of cranberry, … Continue reading Oat and Fruit Slice
Growing Beetroot
Now is the time to plant beetroot. They are easy to grow and deliciously sweet when home grown. Growth habits and planting needs Chose a sunny position. While beetroot can grow in part shade they do best in full sun. As beetroot need potassium but not much nitrogen so they should ideally follow the fruit group in the crop rotation system, because by this time … Continue reading Growing Beetroot
Easy Pizza Dough, Artichoke and Antipasto Pizza
This recipe is very quick and easy and uses a 3 ingredient pizza dough and the Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce that was posted previously here. The topping for this recipe is an Artichoke and Antipasto style. You can try this or invent your own using your favourite ingredients. With the toppings prepared ahead of time this could be be the quickest pizza you will make. … Continue reading Easy Pizza Dough, Artichoke and Antipasto Pizza
Vegetable Pasties and Soup
These are a variation on the classic Cornish Pasties and are a wonderful dish to take on picnics or for lunch. They are nice hot or cold and you can add any vegetables or spices to this basic mix to suit your own palate. Mixture remaining from the pasties is then used to make a soup. Vegetable Pasties Basic Ingredients Shortcrust Pastry: 2 … Continue reading Vegetable Pasties and Soup
Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce
The tomatoes are growing bigger in the garden and some are ripening and I look forward to the bounty of summer for making tomato sauce for pasta, lasagna, pizza and parmigiana dishes. The tomatoes in this sauce are oven roasted so their flavour will be enhanced. Once prepared and in the oven you will find that this is a really easy way to make tomato … Continue reading Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce
Growing beans
Beans are healthy food and easy to grow in the summer garden. There are so many varieties to choose from. So, for a bumper harvest get busy planting your favourite varieties of beans in Spring and Summer and enjoy the harvest of tender beans well into Autumn. Growth habits and planting needs When selecting the type of bean to plant consider the space available, … Continue reading Growing beans
Kale, Italian Sausage and Butter Beans with Rice
Kale is in season and abundant in the garden at the moment. Here is a way to cook a really tasty meal using kale, tender butter beans and the best Italian sausages you can get. The rice can be prepared ahead and makes for a substantial but satisfying meal. This is my favourite way to cook kale and I hope that you will enjoy it … Continue reading Kale, Italian Sausage and Butter Beans with Rice
Growing Pumpkins
There is nothing more exciting than carefully wandering though the pumpkin patch that has grown to occupy half the backyard looking for evermore pumpkins at various stages of growth. If you have the space or the time to train the plant into a more manageable growth trajectory then the harvest will yield a bounty of pumpkins that you can cook in so many ways. If … Continue reading Growing Pumpkins
Roast Pumpkin and Chickpea Soup
This year two pumpkin plants grew out of the compost bins and soon they sprawled across half the backyard. Fed by the compost they yielded 30 medium to large pumpkins that were a blessing to family and friends at harvest time. We’re down to our last four so I thought it was a perfect day to make pumpkin soup. Roasting the pumpkin brings out the … Continue reading Roast Pumpkin and Chickpea Soup
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