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11 January 2017
Dehydrating herbs in the oven
I grow a few food plants in the bush house over summer, in particular, oregano and mint, and they thrive in the partial shade. In late Dece...
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30 November 2016
Growing and using ginger
Ginger is one of those plants that fits easily into the kitchen for cooking or making drinks. Many of us use ginger in our cooking or to ma...
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24 August 2016
How to cook
Most of the work I do here at home is food related with cooking, preserving, baking and growing taking a good slice of my ordinary days. It...
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23 May 2016
Without the guilt
It's a beautiful time of year and we're just about to go into winter. The weather has been unseasonal here, as it has been in many ...
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11 April 2016
Homemade tomato relish
It's wonderful having the time to do a bit of preserving when the opportunity arises. I bought a 10 kg box of tomatoes for $8 on Frida...
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11 February 2016
The humble rosella
If you're in a warm climate, rosellas are a very useful and unusual plant to grow in the backyard. They're a wild hibiscus, grown i...
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9 November 2015
The fundamentals of simple life
Now that I'm not working at writing every day, my days have turned into splendid waves of sewing, waves of family, waves of cooking. It...
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30 March 2015
Sweet preserved lemons
We planted a second lemon tree about 18 months ago and it's starting to produce its first lemons. I love have having too many lemon...
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