Last year with the bountiful harvest of Rosellas I started to experiment with different things. I thought the tart citrus flavour would work well as a salad dressing, and decided I’d like to try a caramelised balsamic. It was a
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Pear & Rosella Fruit Leather
If you’re sick of jam, cordial and syrup and want another way to make use of a big rosella harvest, that the kids will love, how about trying a fruit leather. I chose pears for the sweetness component as that’s
Quick things to grow in a crisis
Whilst people have gone mental hoarding toilet paper (which I am so confused about by the way) I am focusing on the easy wins for the veggie patch, and hoarding seeds instead (not that has anything to do with a
How to make natural pink food colouring using beetroot
The end of last winter/early Spring I was up to my eye balls in beetroot, which isn’t really a problem as my kids LOVE them (as long as they are pickled in loads of sugar). But I was getting a
What to do with excess cucumbers
So this past spring I thought it was an awesome idea to plant 15 cucumber plants. The kids eat loads so I thought why the hell not. The kids are now sick of cucumbers. Typical. Anyway, dealing with a kg
How to make ground Turmeric
In our climate Turmeric is one of those things that I dropped in the ground and with little love or maintenance it just seemed to grow like a weed. When I first purchased my Turmeric plant I had no idea how
What to do with a Chilli Overload!!
After 3 years of having one tiny thai birdseye chilli this year I decided to go nuts on the chilli front and plant 4 plants. We always seem to eat them, but I may have been a little ambitious. Even though
Homemade Harissa
At the moment we have an abundance of Chillis, it’s pretty much the only thing that is growing for us over the super hot months. I purposely planted more plants than I knew we would need, as I know we
How to stop your skin burning after handling chillis
So recently I made Harissa and the recipe I was loosely following said ‘wear gloves’ to deseed the chillis. Me, being me, thought, OK I’ve never had a reaction to cutting chillis before, I don’t need gloves. Yeah yeah, you know
Buffalo Wings Recipe
So we have started a tradition in our house called “Fast Food Friday” where each Friday we recreate incredibly bad for you fast food, but a cheaper, healthier version*. So we’ve had hamburgers, pizzas, tacos, fried chicken…. Well healthier is debatable, but
Doreen’s Tomato & Onion Relish Recipe
So for our wedding favours we wanted to share some family recipes. The easy part was scoring the recipes from the Murray side (my side not so easy). This one is a classic that Nathan’s late grandmother was well known