Chive Blossom Vinegar + a little garden update
When I started this blog (nearly 9 years ago!) we had our little veggie garden going in the backyard of our first house. We grew as much as we could in the 3 small raised beds we had. Then we moved to Western Australia, and in the 5 years we spent there we tried our […]
Spring bowl with roasted kūmara, romanesco, beetroot yoghurt + herbed lentil salad and a garden update
When I was making myself this vibrant bowl of spring goodness a few days ago for lunch it occurred to me that it’s become a bit of a thing for me to share a spring bowl at this time of the year! And when I looked back over the past few years I realised that […]
Green tomato + ginger chutney
I know it might be a bit late in the season for some of you, but I wanted to quickly share this recipe I’ve been making for years in the hopes that it might help out a few of you dealing with a glut of green tomatoes at the tail end of the growing season… […]
cabbage, coriander + sesame winter slaw
I’ve always felt a deep connection to this land where I was born and a deep yearning to know more about my Māori heritage. Being of mixed descent and growing up in a time where only the brave held (fiercely) onto their culture, it was not part of my upbringing, sadly. Te reo (the language) […]
Roasted purple cauliflower and sprouted lentil salad w/ yoghurt lime dressing + a little look around our garden…
I have moments of really missing Perth. Mostly it’s my friends that I miss (like crazy, everyday) but I also miss my old local farmers market. We tried so hard to grow veggies in Perth, but found it pretty hard going in the hot and sandy soils of the West. The farmers markets were my […]
growing pineapples for free…
Si and I grow all sorts of random things in our garden. Some ‘experiments’ work out, while others don’t. If you were to look out in our backward right now you’d find a whole family of different-sized pots filled with tamarind trees grown from seed, chilli plants plucked out from my mother-in-laws where they had […]
keeping the bugs away, naturally
With all this rain we’ve been having over the last fortnight I’ve barely even looked at our garden. I have ran out to pick the odd lettuce or rocket leaf and we are starting to eat a few outer leaves of the kale, but I have to admit it’s been a tad too long since […]