The summer harvest has started, and I’m once again the proud owner of oversized zucchinis. Seriously, you only have to miss them in the garden for a day and suddenly you have more than you can possibly need. Zucchinis are a vegetable I can take or leave. They are great for bulking out mince, but…
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Curried Chicken And Vegetable Pilaf
We are now well and truly inundated with fruit and vegetables from the garden. Each day sees more trays of tomatoes, bags of beans, and tubs of zucchinis being picked. We do sell some to locals, but we are always on the look out for ways to use up the vegetables in tasty ways, so…
Zucchini, Feta And Mint Fritters
It’s zucchini season here. Zucchinis are one of those vegetables I can take or leave. They taste rather bland and (to my mind) need something added to them to make them tasty. Despite my ambivalence about eating zucchinis, Country Boy is enthusiastic about growing them. Probably because they just grow so darn well. It’s not…
Plan Your Summer Garden Now!
I know it seems crazy to be thinking about Summer vegetables right now because it is freezing cold and the middle of winter, but hear me out! Gardens take a little bit of planning. You can’t just whack a few seeds in the ground and pick tomatoes two weeks later. A little bit of time…
March In The Garden
Another month, and the summer harvest has only slowed down a little. March is usually a wet month around these parts, though this year it has been so dry. Waves of dust come drifting into the house whenever the sheep go by the yard. We have been using the drip irrigators in the early morning…
Parmesan Crusted Baked Zucchini
We arrived back from Magic Beach to find four zucchinis sitting on our kitchen bench, put there by my lovely mother in law who had looked after our garden while we were away. I inwardly groaned because I just know that it is the start a few months of being innundated with zucchinis, squash, tomatoes,…
