A gaggle of ingredients
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,…
Raspberries and boysenberries
Now on the way to school or on the way home, Ahlia picks berries for her treat. Boysenberry flowers.. Fruit beginnings. Harvest time.
Solanum muricatum – I wish I loved you!
Abundantly in the garden you grow. Beautiful shaped fruit on an evergreen shrub. I wish I loved you so I could eat you…but no matter how beautiful you look I have yet to desire you… but as the chickens enjoy…
Kalamata
The Kalamata olives are ripe. We have a very small tree. It has been crowded greedily near Pandorea jasminoides ‘Lady Di’ and some Sedum flowers. And yet it is productive. I will harvest and bathe them until they are tasty.
Diospyros kaki
A very beautiful harvest of Kaki fruit from my small tree in Reservoir. I grew up with Kaki trees in Italy, and remember thinking they were amazing. Tomato like in appearance but so vastly different in flavour. The large seeds…