I grow lots of parsley. It is easy to grow, can be used in lots of recipes and tabbouleh is a great stand by salad with most of the ingredients able to be found in the fridge. Many years ago when I was teaching at a “multi-cultural” school I was introduced to Lebanese food by […]

These are all versions of hummus, or at least what I call hummus, which is anything which has tahini in it. I have been making hummus and other single ingredient salads or vegetable dishes such as mushroom pate or russian carrot salad, not as a dip but as a side to have with our salads and dinners. […]

I love the pressure cooker and have used it for baked cheese cakes, hurrying up the cooking of a lamb roast, silverside, massoman curries, any number of casseroles, ribs, potatoes for mash and roasting, Christmas cakes, the list is endless. But it takes, a fair bit of courage to get started, a sense of adventure […]

          I have a carrot and cucumber pickle recipe that is similar to this one.  The radishes have a bit of a foul smell when sliced up but this dissipates after a while. I poured off some of the liquid before serving and this helped with the smell. Ingredients 1 bunch […]

Growing Tomatoes 2010 – I tried heirloom varieties so had a mix of size, colour and shape but not a huge crop. Lesson for 2010: Grow at least three times as many next time – they taste so good that they get eaten faster than they grow. I love dried tomatoes. I have a dehydrator […]

BASIL PESTO 2012 – I have had a fantastic success with basil this year – shows that it likes being watered. I grew a punnet of mixed basil – don’t know what most of it is but we enjoyed fresh basil right through the season. I planted it beside the tomatoes as it is supposed […]

My new way of pickling onions – this is experimental – 1/4/13 The date, April Fools Day, doesn’t indicate that this is a joke. I have only included it because I intend to update this post in a month and again a couple of months after that, simply to report on whether the experiment was […]

Most guides split Australia into regions to help you decide what to plant when. This is confusing because each guide has us ina different region. Add to that the seed packets and the labels on purchased seedleings also have theri own opinion. I think that a combination of what suits me out of what they […]

Rocket and Pear Salad    Really easy – a lot of it from the garden. Ingredients toast some walnuts or any other nuts or seeds shaved parmesan or similar hard cheese (ensure it is very thinly sliced – the slicer on a microplane grater gives a thin slice) rocket or spinach or mix one red […]

This is a collection of things that I have found on the internet to help me make sense of what should be planted in what order. Lots of gardeners have been doing this for years so I figure that the knowledge that is out there should be used. I will need to be gardening for […]

INSTRUCTIONS: To clear the ARP cache in Windows 2000/2003/XP and Vista, take the following steps: Start button Run then type in    netsh interface ip delete arpcache as per screen shot 1 and If nothing happens try Start –>  Run  type  in cmd This takes you to a DOS screen  (see screen shot 2) you enter   […]

Setting up a shared directory – preferably on the server and map the network drives from each machine.    

This works with Samsung SCX 4828FN – can’t guarantee any other printer – especially older ones. One way to scan from the printer – put the paper in the printer and then open “Open Office” document and do the following – the next selection is the printer.

After a bit of research I put together this list of items that are resource heavy when running MYOB on a slow network. Do NOT check (activate) the following Preferences: “Warn for duplicate cheque numbers” “Warn for duplicate invoice numbers on recorded invoices” “Warn for duplicate PO numbers on recorded bills” “Automatically refresh lists when […]

MYOB defaults to NetBEUI when starting up requiring the user to select TCP/IP from a drop down box. Each computer must be assigned an IP address for this protocol to work. This is for you Anne. Go to Control Panel  Network and Internet Then go to Network and Sharing centre: Then right click on the […]

Seafood (prawns, fish and crab) and meat lasagne recipes with ricotta in the white sauce layer. These are the result of many years experimenting with lasagnes. Lasagne is a great way to serve a bunch of people (these both serve 12), because all of the prep and cooking can be done in advance and if […]

Kylie Kwongs Italian Mushroom Ragout (inspired by Franca and Stefano Manfredi) Serves: as part of a meal for 4-6 Ingredients 8 garlic cloves, crushed 4 salad onions, trimmed and finely sliced 1 tablespoon sea salt 200 g (61/2 oz) fresh button mushrooms 100 g (31/2 oz) fresh oyster mushrooms 150 g (5 oz) fresh shiitake […]

Got lots of leaves – no fruit.

  The Plan Since potatoes, pumpkins and melons take up so much space I have decided to extend the garden out of the protected arches. I only got 5 pumpkins from a big area of the arches – hardly enough to last a few weeks in the pumpkin soup season. Potatoes grow under straw and […]

Silver beet grows right through the season – we shared our continuous supply with the chooks. They loved it so we got the extra goodness in the eggs. This is a very tasty way to cook your greens. We cut the stems from the silverbeet – it reduces the musty taste. You can use beetroot […]

Fantastic with ham, prawns – anything that needs a salad as a side. This has a taste of its own. Usually I don’t use quantities. I just add what looks right and what is in the fridge and adjust to taste, however I made this salad today and noted the quantities.   Ingredients 2 tomatoes […]

Out here everything grows, given a bit of water, but we rarely get to eat any of it. It’s the rats, bats, possums, cockatoos, geese, chooks and ducks that get first pickings. I don’t mind sharing but that is not the way it is working. We have lived here for 12 years now and haven’t […]

2011 – 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 when juiced, 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.  […]