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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 …

Gardening, homegrown, Homemade, Love food hate waste, No Waste, Preserving, Recipes, recycling gardening, homemade, love food hate waste, no waste, preserving, recipes, recycling, sauce, zucchiniLeave a commentFebruary 5, 2023 Rachel McKelvie

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 …

Gardening, homegrown, Local, Love food hate waste, menu planning, No Waste coffee sack, homegrown, love food, no waste, PotatoesLeave a commentJanuary 23, 2023January 22, 2023 Rachel McKelvie

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 …

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Calendar pages to envelopes

While I was visiting my friend in Christchurch, she gave me some old calendars to recycle.  She had given me some a couple of years …

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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 …

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One cushion, two projects

I had some cushions on the couch that used to be in my sewing room which I transferred to the new day bed that we …

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Pizza Calzone

All I can say is you need to make these.  They are easy and delicious and they freeze really well.  I have made a couple …

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Lockdown pickles

My normal saturday ritual involves a visit to my local vege market to get our fruit and veges for the coming week.  Since we have …

Homemade, Lockdown Covid 19, Love food hate waste, No Waste, Preserving, Recipes covid 19, cucumber pickles, homemade, lockdown, love food hate waste, preserves, recipesLeave a commentApril 27, 2020 Rachel McKelvie

The slow art of Sourdough

Lockdown day 8 for us here in New Zealand and my sourdough starter has been getting a great workout the past week.  Now that I …

Baking, Handmade, Homemade, Local, Love food hate waste, menu planning, No Waste, Recipes, Sustainability baking, bread, handmade, homemade, local, lovefoodhatewaste, menuplanning, nowaste, recipes, sustainabilityLeave a commentApril 2, 2020 Rachel McKelvie

Scrap blanket revisited

Hello from Lockdown here in Wellington! The weather is awful here today so I thought I would give you an update on my scrap blanket …

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