Free Pumpkins
About 6 weeks ago I noticed that a pumpkin had self seeded in our garden. At first I wasn’t sure if it was a pumpkin or a courgette but time has shown that it is […]
Category: Love food hate waste
Leftover fruit
Saturday morning is my weekly visit to the local vege market and the fruit bowl is normally empty by Friday. Unusually for us, we had some fruit leftover on Saturday morning so I put it […]
Frankentrolly gets retired
Every Saturday morning I get up early and head down to our local vegetable market. My trusty trolley makes the journey with me each week but sadly it recently had to be retired. I brought […]
Plum and Ginger Chutney
As soon as Christmas is done and dusted for the year, I am thinking about the next one. I like to collect up recipes and gift ideas throughout the year and write them in my […]
Granola Hack
I have been making a batch of my Granola recipe every time we run out which is weekly at the moment. I have been experimenting with possible replacements for Maple syrup as with the rising […]
Baking / Bread / Homemade / Love food hate waste / menu planning / Recipes
Seeded onion bread – no knead
I have been further experimenting with my no knead bread recipe and this is a good one! If you haven’t got a particular seed ingredient on hand, swap it out for something different or leave […]
Orange, Cardamom and Walnut no knead bread
I have been doing more experimenting with no knead bread flavours and this one is a goodun’. The orange is a good background flavour and the stars of the show are the spices which give […]
Bottling Jalapenos
We use alot of jalapenos in our house and I have found the cheapest way to buy them is in a 3 kg tin from Moore Wilsons which costs about $15.00. A 470g jar of […]
Gardening / homegrown / Homemade / Love food hate waste / No Waste / Preserving / Recipes / recycling
Zucchini Tomato Sauce
The next chapter in the Zucchini glut saga is making some zucchini tomato sauce. I have loosely based this on Nicola Galloway’s Roasted tomato and courgette harvest sauce recipe. I used tinned tomatoes as our […]
Homemade dried herbs
I have an abundant herb garden and all of the plants are going nuts at the moment with the rain and hot weather we have had. I like to pick big bunches and hang them […]