Last years harvest

Planting rows

Just shooting.

There is something really good about home grown garlic that you cant say about the bleached white,Chinese garlic that you buy in the supermarkets. The flavour is far better. I bought a bundle of organic garlic at the Eumundi Market 5 years ago and i've been planting it out from the original bulb every year since. I hope to harvest more each season. I use the stuff nearly everyday with my cooking..

Not a big fan of Banana Bread, but love the pumpkin equivalent..here's a recipe

3 cups plain flour            1\2tsp baking powder     
1tsp ground cloves          3 cups sugar
2tsp cinnamon                250gm butter
1tsp nutmeg                   3 large eggs
1/2tsp salt                     450gms cooked pureed pumpkin
1tsp bicarb soda           chopped walnuts or pecan nuts, optional.

Cream butter and sugar, gradually add beaten eggs. Sft dry ingrediants including the spices,then fold into creamed mixture alternately with the pumpkin and nuts. Put into large loaf tin and bake for 1 hour in 180 degree oven...

Hand cut Fat Chips with tomato sauce,.good good good...

Falafels with yoghurt,beetroot and quinoa salad

riday funtime is what my kids have at school at the end of the week. Well Friday funtime is what i had today with some friends, when we all met up at Kilcunda General Store in gorgeous South Gippsland. A General Store that has been turned into a cool cafe. It still has the store provisions, but does some good food and coffee. With cool vintage interiors and an amazing view of the ocean, it was a great way to spend a couple of hours  .
Sorry, i still have sideways photos..

Thought I'd show the kids how marshmallows are made. It's quite easy, found a recipe in an old Woman's Weekly cookbook,circa 1970 something...

A yoghurt dough with the silverbeet,spring onion and feta filling..

GOZLEME..delish

Rainbow Chard with a side of mint..

Not much in the garden to cook with at the moment, but i did make something tasty from good old silverbeet and a few spring onions i plucked from the ground. I just needed some feta chesse and yoghurt from the fridge and some flour and salt and pepper from the pantry..

The below photo isn't high quality, sorry, but the food was. The plate consisted of cashew and tofu curry, basmati rice with currants, lentil dhal, a big handful of spinach, some fresh chopped coriander, a spoonful of mango chutney and a pappadam..delish

Wanted to show you the picture i took at Friends of the Earth Food Co-op in Smith st Collingwood.

A crappy weather day, remember, but an amazing food day.