Category Archives: Spring Harvesting

An Insurance Policy – Fritters

When I was a little girl I used to be worried that something would happen to my mum and with her would go her recipe for macaroni cheese.  In retrospect I find this rather odd,  as I love my mother very much … Continue reading

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Monday Harvest – 19th Sept 2011

Green, Green with a purple hue and a splash of red pretty much covers what I harvested this week.  With this in mind I’m trying to come up with new and exciting ways to photograph green and parsley in particular.  I … Continue reading

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Harvest Monday – 12th Sept 2011

I’ve eaten quite a lot of silverbeet this week.  The plants are bolting so the larger leaves have gone all floppy and needed eating. I’m getting decent amounts of purple sprouting broccoli at the moment which is nice, the only … Continue reading

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Beautiful balls of white – Cauliflower

OOOOh they are coming!  It is so nice to have cauliflower to look forward to.  So nice that upon seeing mine developing I immediately went out and bought one at the Preston market and used it to make a risotto … Continue reading

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Enough Water for Watercress?

In the last few years I was in the UK before coming home to Australia I reckon the sales of watercress there probably quadrupled – everyone it seemed to be eating it.  I suspect this probably coincided with some study or other revealing a … Continue reading

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