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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 brought to replace the couch. The covers that were on […]
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 which I first posted about back in March 2017. I […]
Happy New Year and Happy New Decade everyone! I thought I would report in on the pledge I made last year to not buy any new clothes and appreciate and wear what I already had. […]
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 […]
This dish came about because I had some bread ends in the freezer that needed using up. I defrosted my bread ends and also got some black bean juice cubes (I freeze the liquid left […]
I have been menu planning for a while now, using the method of looking in the cupboards/fridge/freezer on a Sunday night to see what needs to be used up and writing up the menu plan […]
So now that you have made loads of newspaper plant pots, you can fill them up and put them somewhere warm to sprout. We use a tin with some holes punched in the bottom as […]
