SPINACH SAUCE
This is a similar dressing to the warm green salad except that I use palm sugar, cook it for a bit longer and add about 100g of cream cheese to make a creamy side dish to have with steak. The spices can be varied depending on what it is accompanying. Ingredients Dressing ¼ cup olive […]
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WARM GREEN SALAD
Leafy Greens I discovered that the tops of most of my root crops make very tasty leafy greens to use in salads. Radish, beetroot, turnip tops all taste better than silver beet. Ingredients: For Vinaigrette: ¼ cup olive oil 2 tbs balsamic vinegar 2 tbs water 1 tbs honey / maple syrup / palm sugar […]
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STRAWBERRY, ROCKET AND BLUE CHEESE SALAD
Amazingly tasty, the strawberries and blue cheese complement each other and having it with steak and a bearnaisse sauce is delicious. Ingredients 1/4 cup white balsamic 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil 1 tsp dijon mustard 1 bunch rocket / baby spinach (washed and drained) 4 slices of prosciutto or pancetta (torn into pieces) 1 […]
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RHUBARB STEWED
Links Found this great website – http://www.rhubarb-central.com/ to help with recipes and growing hints. When we have some rhubarb growing I will revisit. I have ignored all the advice that says not to eat any in the first year. The plants are so huge and the old leaves are just dying so why not eat […]
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Freezing Zucchini
This is great. I just washed the zucchini and ran them through the grater on the food processer, packed the result into zip lock bags, pressed out as much air as possible, lay them flat on a tray and froze them. I am hopeless at labelling things that I put in the freezer – note […]
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Zucchini growing
Zucchini 2010 When you have zucchini in the garden you really have it. I planted six plants, six different varieties this year (2010) – only two of them really excelled – the yellow and the round rondo. From these we still had a glut. I planted them too close together in a bed shared with […]
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Beetroot growing
We had not really eaten beetroot before growing it. What a fantastic vegetable. Really good for you, easy to grow, tastes great, tastes best raw, fantastic in juice, when pickled it is so much better than the tinned stuff and you use the lot of it. The leaves taste much better than silver-beet. Next year […]
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GINGERBREAD MEN, GINGERBREAD HOUSE
Christmas Gingerbread These are such a winner with any child, the smaller the child the more preparation needs to be done before they actually become involved. The mixture needs to be made in advance and left to chill in the fridge for at least an hour. This takes little time and can be done in […]
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Zucchini Chutney
Just another way to use up all of those zucchini. Ingredients First day: 1.5 kg assorted zucchini, seeded and chopped into 1cm cubes 1/3 cup salt Second day: 5 medium tomatoes or chopped or a couple of tins of tomatoes 3 small onions chopped 2 medium cooking apples diced 2 1/2 cups white vinegar 1 […]
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ZUCCHINI PICKLES
This is brilliant, I made a small batch the first time and it was so good that I made a lot more towards the end of the season. I freeze it in batches, flattened, in zip lock bags and it lasts for ages. Tastes great with ham and almost anything else. The spices are quite […]
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MARINATED OLIVES
I still don’t have olive trees that do anything other than grow and get thrips, however I do like a good olive and the best are always the marinated ones from the deli. My sister-in-law once gave me a jar of olives that she had marinated herself so after finding that it was possible to […]
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OLIVE TAPENADE
I was going to buy some olive tapenade for mini pizza toppings and roast my own capsicum to go with it, but I couldn’t find the tapenade so bought olives and made it myself – so simple, why would anyone buy it. Ingredients 2 cup (300g) pitted kalamata olives (or pit them yourself just add […]
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CHOCOLATE TOPPING FOR ICE CREAM
Hard Chocolate ice cream topping This is a fantastically easy, amazing recipe. The result is runny chocolate that stays pourable for ages, yet hardens on contact with very cold ice cream. It is like Ice Magic except in large quantities. I used it to coat my individual layered ice cream cakes that were made in […]
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BEETROOT & CARROT SALAD
Even the 2YO loves this and eats it by the handful. It is so easy to make that there really is no need for a recipe – you just need beetroot, carrot, balsamic vinegar, sugar and horsreadish cream. We usually have a bowl of this in the fridge during the beetroot season. It has even […]
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HOT AND SOUR NOODLE SOUP
Another very quick, easy to serve, Asian style soup. Ingredients Serves 6 6 chicken thigh fillets, skin off but left whole 3 tbsp mirin 3 tbsp soy sauce 5 garlic cloves, crushed 4 small red chilli, chopped 2 litres chicken stock 1½ cinnamon quills 2½ star anise 3 tbsp rice wine vinegar 300g ramen noodles […]
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THAI LARB
This was so quick and easy and can be made with any type of mince – lamb, chicken, pork or beef. It has a lot going for it. Ingredients 1 tablespoon peanut oil 4 garlic cloves, crushed (or grated with the fine side of a box grater) 4 tbsp fresh ginger, finely grated (as above) 2 […]
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CHAR GRILLED CAPSICUM
I grow capsicum but usually only the long ones – they seem to be fairly immune to fruit fly attack and I have save the seeds and have grown more this year. Capsicum and Chilli plants also last for more than one season so this year I left some in the ground over Winter, pruning […]
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TANGELLO AND FENNEL SALAD
This is the most surprising salad I have ever made – the crisp fennel and the tangelo are so complementary and the dressing is just beautiful. Will definitely be on the Christmas recipe list to complement the ham. Ingredients Salad 4 tangelos, peeled and segmented 1 fennel bulb, trimmed, finely sliced 1 medium red onion, […]
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PRESERVED LEMONS/LIMES
The first time I made this I made heaps and ended up throwing the jars away. The lesson I learnt was that if you don’t use something very often then don’t make much of it. This time a Moccona jar full will be more than enough for us – and it is small enough to […]
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LEMON AND GARLIC TONIC
This recipe was given to us by a naturopath many years ago. It is claimed to cure almost anything, however, we have seen blood pressure lowered to normal levels in all of the people we have given the recipe to. It is meant to be taken for a 7 weeks course and the course repeated […]
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CITRUS CORDIAL
This is so easy and actually tastes of the fruit – no need to worry about what % of fruit is in the cordial. You know and can taste it. Home made cordial is quite trendy at the moment, it is very easy and is a great use for excess citrus fruit. Ingredients 4 cups […]
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CUCUMBER – RAITA OR TZATZIKI
These are very similar recipes, the added herbs being the main difference depending on whether you are wanting to accompany Greek or Indian dishes. To reduce the liquid in the mix it is best if the cucumber and the yoghurt are prepared ahead. I like a bit of texture in my tzatziki but you can […]
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GHERKINS – THIN SLICED
We didn’t have enough small gherkins at any one time to make standard gherkins so I came up with the idea of taking the larger ones and slicing them thinly. I started looking at recipes for dill pickles because they were the only ones that I could find that were sliced, but I don’t really […]
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