Rosella Caramelised Balsamic
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 …
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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, …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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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, …
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 …