After all that weekend gardening we needed a wholesome snack and banana bread makes a fabulous morning tea. There are the butter eaters of this world and those who are anti butter and I must confess that I am in the butter eating camp. I do cook with Flora type margarine on occasion but when spreading on bread or toast something closer to the cow is called for as far as I am concerned.
October 2011
10/20/2011
10/19/2011
Weekend Project part 2
Sunday was the day of planting and I now have tomatoes, basil, peppers, silverbeet, cauli and cabbage growing in my tubs. I have kept up my watering over the last couple of very warm days and everything is looking terrific. My front yard also now has a little table and 2 chairs and although not likely to feature in House & Garden it looks very sweet and nestworthy.
10/18/2011
Weekend Project part 1
At long last I have taken possession of my two new colourbond raised vegetable garden containers. Sadly they are not the sort of thing you can take with you when you move. There was a bit of a delay in the delivery of these new ones and I was starting to panic as I badly wanted to get the tomatoes in before the onset of summer heat. The worst bit of this project is they have to be filled with soil, a bit of a backbreaking job. I chose a 5 blend soil - sound like coffee beans, I know - but this is a soil/compost/manure concoction recommended for vegie gardens. Tromping round in this mix is not great and it's the perfect situation to drag out the gum boots. I needed 1.5 cubic meters to fill my containers but they won't sell halves so I ended up with 2 and was offering the leftovers to passersby !!
10/17/2011
Name this Blossom
Smells divine, grows in a bush about a metre wide and high with small cream blossoms - please help me if you can identify it. I thought is was a relative of honeysuckle but it is not a vine and the branch is too woody.
10/16/2011
10/15/2011
A Pre Dinner Snack
Tonight we are eating out but not till after 9 so I knew hunger would be raging long before this ! So I baked some tiny potatoes and then when I could bear to hold theses little hotties I cut them in half . Although they were still a tad hot, I endeavoured to scoop a little potato flesh out of each skin and mix it with sour cream and bacon. Don't they look delicious !!!!! Just the perfect size to pop whole straight into your mouth.
10/14/2011
Are You Searching for Images ??
If you are ever on the hunt for imaginative images then the place to go is here. You can spend hours perusing ! Here is one of my faves.
10/13/2011
Mini Frittata
I made these in two little tins - long, thin tins and once they were turned out they looked great . Tasted very good too. These little frittatas were made up of diced unpeeled baby potatoes, diced tomatoes and sliced black olives. The little tins are a bit fiddly to use and have to be greased really well but I will certainly use them again.
10/12/2011
An Apple a Day......
Supposedly an apple a day keeps the doctor away but sometimes it gets a bit boring just munching into a whole apple so here is where apple cake comes into it's own !! I used heaps of diced {and unpeeled} apples in this one and poured the batter over the top like an apple sponge then drizzled it with icing. The icing had a big squeeze of fresh lime juice in it. I added cinnamon and cloves to the cake batter and for a healthier take there was no butter in it. This healthier take was negated by the frosting sadly though !!
10/11/2011
Doing Things by Half
We have half a blossom tree for some reason. The tree doesn't look sick and what blossom we have is gorgeous, such a beautiful pink, but only on one half of the tree. I do wonder if we now will only get foliage on one side !!
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