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Simple Tomato Relish
I have tomatoes coming out of my ears at the moment - every time I go out into the garden I come back with a small bucketful, which brings that old-fashioned word glut to mind (from the Latin gluttire...
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Noodle Salad - for you and the kiddies
I had a 'eureka' moment this evening thinking about what to make myself for dinner. Uppermost in my mind had been my recent trip to Sydney and seeing my daughter having the same dilemma I used to go...
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Cycling from Innsbruck to Verona: Day 5 Lake Garda to Verona
Day 5 Lake Garda to Verona 35 km (Just realised I had better conclude the story of this trip because it is almost a year since we did it - wow, where did that go?)Lake GardaLast day of our mammoth...
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My shark moment!
I love to swim - it has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. There's lots of exercise that I find difficult because of my dodgy back and knees, but I find swimming just fantastic and try...
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Making your own cheese
Have you got a list of things that you really want to do in your life - well one of mine was to learn how to make cheese. Apart from loving to eat cheese, it is my snack of choice, I am fascinated by...
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Green Papaya Salad
Green Papaya SaladThis is another one of those fabulously adaptable dishes that seems to be a real favourite with everyone - including me! (I actually start salivating when I think about this salad!!)...
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Red Mullett: Eating Fresh for Less
Concerned about the sustainability of the fish we eat? Look no further than the mullet - particularly the red mullet - a prized fish in the Mediterranean that sells for peanuts in Australia and then...
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Rose Petal and Rhubarb Jam
If you have never tried this you are in for a real treat - just opening the lid and smelling the wonderful fragrance of this jam is enough to have you running for a slice of fresh, crusty bread and...
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Gardenias - Which One to Plant and How to Care for Them?
BOTANIC NAME: GardeniaCOMMON NAME: GardeniaFAMILY: RubiacaeORIGIN: South East Asia and South AfricaGardenia magnifica(Hallelujah! - One of the few plants with a botanic name that is the same as its...
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Poached Oranges in Honey Syrup
I've just picked the first of this year's crop of sweet and juicy citrus from my garden and am reminded that this is one of the many delights of enjoying seasonal harvests - as the weather cools, a...
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Top Plant: Turmeric
BOTANIC NAME: Curcuma domesticaCOMMON NAME: Turmeric, Curcuma, Indian Saffron, Yellow Ginger, Karmin FAMILY NAME: ZingiberaceaeORIGIN: SOUTH EAST ASIACurcuma domestic in flower in the middle of summer....
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Balinese Chicken Curry
This follows on from the previous post about turmeric and about eating your way to good health - and, while we are at it we might as well have something seasonal and delicious! And, the absolutely...
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Winter Care of Citrus and Orchard Meadows
Soon the citrus harvest will be over with just a few fruit left hanging on the trees SO....... it's time to get busy - that's if you want a bumper crop next year. Time to sharpen the loppers, buy...
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Best Ever Fruit Cake
How many fruit cakes have your tried in your lifetime? Well, this is the best one that I have ever had - and it is very easy to make. In fact, it's my lovely neighbour Belinda Jeffery's recipe, and...
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Beetroot Tops - How to Cook Them
Travel can inform you in many surprising and delightful ways. So there we were, on our first visit to Greece, sitting in a seafront taverna on the island of Kos when I discovered two things:1. You...
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Potatoes - growing your own is easy!
We have just been away for a couple of months and just about the last thing I did, before I left home, was plant some old potatoes in the garden that had been quietly sprouting away in my pantry -...
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Hummus - best ever recipe!
I can never really understand why people buy shop bought hummus when it is so easy and cheap to make at home, AND I have never had one of those from a plastic thingummy tub that tastes anywhere near...
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Bordeaux - Why You Should Go!
BORDEAUX: Last year we did a cycling trip from Innsbruck to Verona and it was so wonderful that we wanted to do the same kind of thing again, only somewhere different. We love the south-west of France...
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Getting America Back Online
I am not often flabbergasted, but I was this week when I discovered that more than 60 million Americans are forbidden, by locals laws, from having a washing line! Yes, that's right, they are not...
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Carrot and Sultana Cake with Banana Icing
One of the weirdest cake recipes I have ever seen was in a collection called 100 Years of Australian Country Cooking (1988) that I picked up in a garage sale with the kind of recipes that raise your...
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Trombone Squash - Summer Survivor
Surviving SummerA favourite summer vegetable - trombone squash We have recently had some early summer scorchers, with very little rain, that has just decimated the garden - the heat and humidity have...
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Cycling in France - Bordeaux and beyond Day 1
in 2015 we did a cycling trip from Innsbruck to Verona and it was so wonderful that we wanted to do the same kind of thing again, only somewhere different. We love the south-west of France and had...
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Octopus Salad
Octopus Salad, Mitsos Taverna, Corfu, Greece - cooked by Agatha, caught by SpirosOctopus, and the rest of the family of squid, calamari and cuttlefish are sea creatures I would never have eaten as a...
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Tamarilloes - how to cook and grow them
ABOUT: Tamarillo (Solanum betaceum) is a native to southern Brazil in the tomato Solanacea family and easy to grow in tropical and sub-tropical gardens. It is a fruit I was not familiar with until I...
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Cycling in France - Beyond Bordeaux - Day 2 Graves et Sauternes
DAY 2 St Macaire to Origne 57kmDay 1 Cadillac to St MacaireAhh, the romance of the grape. The end of day one of our cycling trip out of Bordeaux found us in the delightful old village of St Macaire...
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