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Fattoush with Edamame
Edamame are green soy beans, and most Australians anyway only ever encounter them in a sushi bar. They’re easy to grow in a garden though, and to me, they work so well as a snack food because they...
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Taking Your Vitamins
Back in 2011, I wrote a post for Simple Green Frugal about a study just published in a peer reviewed journal, that followed a sample of nearly 39,000 older American women all the way from 1986 till...
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I’m Going to TEDx Sydney (Does a Little Dance)
I’m going to TEDx in Sydney in three and a half weeks!! (She does a little dance). The invitation email came a couple of days ago, and I’m still hugging myself excited. The speaking line up is...
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Barbecued Sweet Corn with Chili Lime Dressing
My glut crop this week is sweet corn – the last round of sweet corn for the year. Sweet corn is one of the trickier crops for a home gardener. What goes wrong? It can fail to pollinate if there are...
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Mexican Style Seafood Soup
This has been a very recurring staple in our household lately, one of my very favourite recipes for both dinner parties and just us at home. It’s really fast and easy and cheap and healthy for...
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Pecans
We have a magnificent, 20 year old pecan tree on the eastern side of our house, shading the verandah that runs along that side. It is deciduous, and so in winter it loses all its leaves and the...
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Camilla’s Chilis Rellenos
My glut crop this week is chilis. The chooks get bucketfuls. They like chilis. Birds (all kinds) have no receptors for capsaicin, so they’re immune to chili heat. An evolutionary strategy from...
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The Ultimate Kid’s Party Food – Red Sugar Cane
Ever since my kids were little, this has been my staple for taking to fetes and school race days, to birthday parties and picnics, even to mums’ gatherings where it is likely a bribe might be required...
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TEDx Awesomeness
TEDx was awesome. Awesome. I’ve been a fan of TED videos for a long time, but being there at the Opera House for a whole day program was a different experience. I think a big part of it was an...
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60 Little Lemon Cheescakes
My glut crop at the moment is lemons. It’s not quite the glut it was last year. Last year at this time, this was what the bush lemon tree looked like, and we have four lemon trees of different...
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Totally Addictive Spiced Orange Pecans
It has taken me a few weeks to face pecan shelling after my TEDx pecan shelling marathon. I spent most of a weekend hand shelling pecans for my contribution to the the crowd farmed TEDx catering. It...
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Dolphin-friendly tuna: we’re worrying about the wrong species
I read a good little article this morning from The Conversation website. I go for canned salmon these days in preference to tuna. My Very Herby Salmon Patties are a regular, very tasty, quick, easy,...
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Pumpkin Pecan and Polenta Balls
These are good. Really good. Better than they look. They have the sweetness of pumpkin with a moist cake-y polenta centre. They’re good hot but specially good cold, which makes them ideal for...
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A Shirt Full of Citrus
I love citrus season here. I just went up, in my slippers, to check the top tank, and the lime tree was dropping fruit, and the less favoured mandarin tree was loaded with mandarins that are small and...
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It Doesn’t Take Much….
My garden has been shamefully, shamefully neglected lately. Call yourself a gardener. Lots and lots of other stuff going on including a couple of big projects, and that I’ll be becoming a grandma in...
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On a Roll – Planting in Midwinter
Inspired by my own last post, I’ve got it together to go out in the rain and plant out a new bed. I’m wet and muddy, but I did have such fun. And the wood stove is going so there is hot water to get...
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Bandicoot fencing
The most labour intensive work in my garden, for quite a few years now, is fencing. Often I feel like those Greek fishermen you see in movies who spend most of their time mending nets. Bandicoots...
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Broccoli
My glut crop at the moment is broccoli. I was a bit late planting it this year, so the first round of the big major heads are all coming together now. Usually it’s a few weeks earlier. I don’t...
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11 Goose Eggs and She’s Sitting
Eleven eggs in the first nest, and Jackie is sitting on them, and another two in a second nest. So fingers crossed they might hatch a whole lot of goslings this year. Last year was disastrous for...
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Leafy Greens in Late Winter and the Long Slow Infancy of Greens
One of the most important insights that really changed the way I garden was realising just how long plants are babies for. It is still late winter, I know, but up here in northern NSW we’ve had a day...
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