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 […]
Category: Preserving
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 […]
Preserves
We had a public holiday on Monday for Wellington Anniversary weekend so I took advantage of the extra day off to clean out my preserves cupboard. We got a whole bunch of delicious homemade jams […]
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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 […]
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 been under lockdown the vege market has been closed. We […]
Cinnamon Apple Compote
I wouldn’t really call this a recipe but it is a great way to use up apples that are past their best for eating, rather than throw them into the bin or compost. I have […]
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Easy Pickled Chillies
Our chilli plants are producing fruit in abundance at the moment and I harvested a whole bunch more ripe ones this morning. We have always had great success growing chillies in our garden and since […]
Harvest Plum Sauce
We went up to Hawkes Bay to see the family for Christmas and Mum’s plum trees are laden with fruit at the moment so I filled a bag to bring home. Mum reminded me that […]
Beetroot Pickle
When I was growing up, I couldn’t stand beetroot. It would be served at every BBQ and family gathering we went to and it was nearly always from a tin and had an overwhelming taste […]