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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Homegrown Potatoes

Yesterday we harvested our first attempt at growing potatoes.  We didn’t get as many as we were hoping for but we were pleased with the result.  We grew them in a coffee sack and they […]

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Blueberry, Ginger and Walnut bread

I like a good dutch oven bread recipe.  No kneading, leave it to rise overnight and bake it the next day.  I found this Cranberry Walnut no knead bread recipe on Pinterest the other day […]

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Zucchini glut!

We are currently experiencing a zucchini glut in our garden and in desperation I turned to Google for some ideas to use them up.   I had already made this cake (it was delicious by the […]

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You can improve on a good thing

I have a recipe for chocolate chip biscuits that my mum used to make for us when we were little.  I have made it so many times that I know the recipe off by heart.  […]

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Spicy Jalapeno Hummus

I have been a bit slack lately and have been buying hummus from the grocery store rather than making my own.  I was cleaning up all of the bits of the paper stuck to the […]

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Easy Risotto Recipe

I am going to give you the long story of how I came to make this risotto. We order our groceries online and get them delivered and last Friday when they arrived, there was an […]

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Cheese roll filling – aka Cheese “Crack”

One of the things we got given for Christmas was a jar of Cheese roll filling.  For those of you not familiar with what a cheese roll is, it is a slice of white bread, […]

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