At last, it is starting to feel a little like Autumn. The mornings are cold and the days are not so hot. It’s been a crazy Autumn so far. Hot and dry. Around these parts, most people light their fires by ANZAC day (April 25) or even earlier. This year we still have not lit…
Desserts
Rhubarb and Hazelnut Crumble
One of the things I’m loving about our farmhouse is the kitchen, and now that the weather is warming up, I’m keen to get food in from the garden and start cooking again. Unfortunately, September is a bit of a sparse month in the garden. We do have a little kale and brocolli, but not…
Lemon Blueberry Tart
Long before CB and I had children, we used to think of possible business ideas. Things that could combine our talents, provide an income and give us time together doing something we loved. Of course, most of our ideas really were just fantasies. But it is fun to dream, so often on long drives, we…
Chocolate And Sour Cherry Tart
Two weeks ago Country Boy announced that the sour cherries in the orchard were ripe and needed picking. So after work one day, we traipsed down the hill and spent happy hour picking cherries. We picked about ten liters off our two little trees, which is more than double what we got last year. I…
Rhubarb Meringue Pie
Lemon meringue pie is my absolute favourite dessert. I’m super lucky too, because my mother in law makes the best lemon meringue pie in the world. She also makes a date meringue pie, which Country Boy loves even more than the lemon meringue. I have often thought about making rhubarb meringue pie, using the same…
Berry Clafoutis
At this time of year we always start looking through the freezers (there are 3 here) to shift some of the food that has been put there last summer. We want to make sure we make use of the harvest from last year, as well as make sure that we have room to put the…
Chocolate bread and butter pudding
It’s been crazy few weeks here on the farm. The kids and I have all had colds, and Toby is still suffering. Last weekend we went to the mountains to visit my family. Naturally enough, I developed my cold soon after we arrived, but it was still lovely to spend time with them all. We…
Fake Baked Apples
At this time of year, all the apple trees beside the road are laden with fruit. We have discovered a particularly good tree by the road halfway to town, and usually try to stop and fill a bag or two on the way home. I have been cooking up a whole lot of applesauce to…
