Over the past two months the kitchen garden has kept us in an engaging momentum. With various ingredients maturing, frequent harvesting inspires frequent cooking. With friends and recipe books there is never a shortage of ideas. Carolina’s kale and breadcrumbs, Mieze’s plum cake, grape jam, savoury polenta cake, and various tomato inspired dishes. We have had an excellent grape and tomato season. The grapes we have, well I wish I knew what variety they were. They are amazing. Super fragrant, sweet, and full of flavour. When I walk along the path to our back door the scent brightens me. The grape came as a cutting from a friend of a friend and never arrived with a name. I will be taking several cuttings with me to Eganstown to plant along our lengthy verandahs. With tomatoes aplenty, I have been cutting them in half, and with skin and all boiling them down to produce a thick sauce for our pasta dishes. This is a time for celebrating the colour red (rosso) during our dinners and the colour purple at breakfast time.