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Tomato sauce
Back in the day when I was feeding a houseful of kids, everything was prepared in bulk, including home made tomato sauce. These days I make smaller batches, and freeze in smaller lots, but the...
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Cauliflower and Broccoli
It's a couple of years since I've grown cauliflower or broccoli because they get so savaged by the white cabbage butterfly as it lays its eggs there and they hatch into hungry caterpillars, but this...
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First corn, more berries
Picked the first cob of corn today!Froze blackberries - haven't done that before, but laid them out on a lipped baking tray in the freezer until they were solid and then packed them into air-tight...
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Planting for beneficial insects
There's no doubt that bees bring plant health into a garden - they pollinate, feed off flowers, and a garden without bees does poorly in terms of vegetable production.Bees favour blue and purple...
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Oat Bran & Wholemeal Bread
This week's loaf of bread is one of my favourites. Great whole food healthy loaf!From George Dale's book - "More Daley Bread", which contains great recipes for breads which are low-salt, high fibre,...
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More preserving of summer's bounty for the winter!
Those apple cucumbers have just kept on coming, so another batch of Alison Holst's Bread and Butter Pickle was on the to-do list today. The recipe is here. Didn't have quite enough mustard seed or...
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Gutless grapes
My bunches of grapes have been looking great! Big heavy bunches - all that was missing was a bit of ripening. Trouble is, as soon as there's any colour on a grape they are sucked dry. Prof Google...
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Ugly Myrtle's glory time!
The New Zealand Cranberry (myrtus ugni or Chilean guava) is a wonder of productivity at this time of the year and I treated mine to their first pick today. I have two bushes, one in the bird-proof...
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Rye, Molasses and Wheatmeal Bread
I had some molasses that needed using up, so the latest loaf from my kitchen is another of George Dale's, from his book "More Daley Bread".I'm not going to copy the recipe in, being respectful of...
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Apple Juice, Apple Sauce, Apple Muffins and Pickled Oranges
I was given a bag of apples, and decided to turn them into juice and sauce.I use apple juice in some of my bread recipes, and apple sauce in all kinds of things, especially my Apple Muffins. These also...
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Wholemeal, carrot and wheatgerm bread
I threw this together yesterday before I got stuck into the apples. I haven't made it before, but have carrots in the garden, and it's a healthy 100% wholemeal loaf so was worth a try.It's another from...
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And now for those apple muffins....
A couple of days ago, I posted about making apple sauce, and mentioned that I was going to make apple muffins. You'll find that post here.In that post I gave the recipe for my spiced pickled oranges -...
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Saturday in the 'burbs
A sultana cake for a friend whose brother died - and the recipe, because this is one of my all time faves. Easy to make, easy to take, yummy to eat. Back in the day, I used to double the recipe and...
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Using left-over cooked rice
Every year at the school where I work, we have a day of solidarity with the poor and with refugees, which we call "Rice Day". For this one day, the students - aged from 5 to 13 years old - have as...
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More uses for left over cooked rice
Following on from my post yesterday, there was more left over rice, and so more ideas for its use.To take to The Ancient One for Sunday lunch - QUICK QUICHE½ cup self raising flour3 eggs1 chopped...
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Hot Cross Buns Day
Good Friday has traditionally been Hot Cross Buns day at our place. I would get the mixture made and leave it proving and go off to the community Cross Carrying around the streets, in commemoration of...
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Soup Weather!
Mmmmm the house smells so good! It's raining and I'm feeling like soup for dinner, so it's on the simmer.My favourite soup is made from the carcass and left overs of a roast chicken, and I've had these...
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Apples by the bucket!
I have three Ballerina apple trees, developed to grow upright and produce apples in a small space. The 'Bolero' variety produces green eating apples and is the first to crop, my 'Polka' and 'Waltz'...
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Blackberry pruning time
My thornless blackberry vines have been running all over the ground, and now that fruiting has finished I've taken the opportunity to tidy them up and prune them.Messy vines before pruningI followed...
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Lentil and Vegetable Curry for dinner tonight!
Last night on MasterChef NZ, Sushil created a Fijian curry that made me wish I was able to taste some, and so it was a no-brainer that it would be curry and rice for dinner tonight. It's simmering away...
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