Category Archives: Recipes

An Autumn of Salads – Nicoise Salad

I have had a few issues with my salad leaves this month, not least a 2 year old boy who decided it was fun to pull out entire plants to feed them to the ‘chooks’.  You will note the italics … Continue reading

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Parsley Soup

Parsley is something that is growing prolifically in the garden at the moment.  This is a good time of the year for green things.  Of all the crops I have growing the parsley and the silverbeet are probably doing best.  … Continue reading

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Thai (ish) Red Curry Paste

I made red curry paste last week.   I intend to make a few batches of it before both; I exhaust my supply of fresh lemongrass and the thai basil packs it in for this year.  I find you can be fairly … Continue reading

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Penne with Broccoli

A bit of cool weather and the winter crops are starting to perform.  Well those at my mum & dad’s are anyway.  My brassicas are either very newly planted or in fairly sunless spots and stunted as a result.   When I … Continue reading

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An Autumn of Salads – Vietnamese Coleslaw

So far for Vegplottings Salad Days posts I have written a variety of recipes which incorporate salad leaves.  This is the first though to use a leaf as a primary ingredient, in my previous posts they have been there for flavour and texture.  Here … Continue reading

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