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May 14, 2013 • I woke this morning with a strong urge to eat comforting food. It’s not just that it’s cold; it’s also that I’ve been having lots of acid reflux and, as a prize-winning procrastinator, haven’t got around to going to the doc to renew my prescription. So, simple food seems in order: grains, vegies, and chicken....
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May 13, 2013 • I am officially fed up with the way that cotton leggings wear out at the inner thighs, and are so hard to mend. There must be a better way. It occurs to me that some kind of bloomers plus long socks would achieve an equivalent degree of leg warmth and chafing prevention, and be far...
I just realised I’ve never posted my potato and sorrel soup recipe. It goes like this: Saute an onion in some butter in a medium sized saucepan. Get a couple of bricks of veggie stock — about a litre — from the freezer and chuck them in the pot and put the lid on until...
OK, this isn’t really a backlog recipe, but if I don’t post it now I’ll forget. No pix because it’s not very photogenic at the best of times and it’s getting dark so my chances of getting an okay photo are vanishingly slim. Anyway! 2 cups leftover cooked rice — plain basmati in my case....
After our Thanksgiving lunch we had a heap of leftovers. Not turkey, as you might think, but bread and cream — things we’d asked guests to bring, as we figured it was an easy thing for them to contribute. However, we got more than we bargained for, and now (10 days later) we’re still working...
I have a bunch of recipes I meant to post and forgot, so I’m going to try and pound through the backlog a bit. The other week we held a southern-hemisphere thanksgiving meal with friends. I cooked three lots of veggies that worked out well, so I thought I’d share the recipes. Brussels sprouts with...
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Apr 19, 2013 • Yet another week where the main thing coming from the garden is herbs. Well, there were a few chillis too. But on the whole the summer crops are gone and the winter ones aren’t here yet, so it’s herbs and a few greens that span the seasons. This week I made stir-fried basil-chilli tofu: And...
Still in that odd between-seasons period where the summer stuff’s mostly ended and the winter stuff’s not happening yet. We’ve had a few chillis and a handful of the very last tomatoes, but apart from that the only harvest was this big bunch of spearmint: It’s all out of this one pot that’s been looking...
I want to get back to blogging here more often, so I’m going to try this Thursday Garden Gobbles thing. You can see who else is doing it over at Veggiegobbler. We’re actually on the last legs of our summer produce and not yet into the winter stuff, so there’s not much food from the...
Bob is our ginger beer plant. He’s a living, breathing organism. We started him a month or so back, and after one false start, tonight we had our first taste of him. I had a lot of trouble finding and understanding ginger beer recipes online, so I thought I’d write up our process here, in...
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Jan 26, 2013 • Our house has a pretty cool way of tracking who spends what on groceries and household items. We have a whiteboard with three columns, one for each housemate, and as you spend you just keep a running total, like this: 50 + 25 = 75 + 40 = 115 + 35 = 150 (We round...
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Dec 30, 2012 • As I mentioned the other day, I picked up a bunch of cheap nectarines and tomatoes with the intention of having a preserving fest over the Christmas holiday period. These are some notes on what I did. Nectarines in light syrup Monday afternoon, canned nectarines. I was originally thinking of stewing them, but decided to...
