This is so easy it’s hardly worth writing down but it is such a good drink to have at a party to help keep drinkers hydrated. PARTY HYDRATION Ingredients Into a large jar add the following and leave to infuse over night 4 litres coconut water A few sprigs of mint About 1 cm grated Full Article…
I needed a salad to serve with my first attempt at a smoked brisket so went looking for my bag of black beans so I could make black bean salsa but there were none there. There were French lentils which are pretty good for salads so I went with them and a nice dressing. This is Full Article…
This recipe has been a favourite of ours since before blenders and the internet, note the original text from our handwritten recipe book, even with the spelling mistakes. We need to double it for 2 of our really large glasses, and these days we have really good blender to make soft, fluffy ice. That said, Full Article…
I have loads of rhubarb and need to pick it as part of cleaning up and resting the vegetable garden as part of preparing it for us to be away for 8 weeks. I make great rhubarb jam, it is beautiful with a bit of tang. I don’t have a really sweet tooth so to Full Article…
I have been threatening to make eggnog every Christmas for at least 10 years but each year I have run out of energy and time by Christmas Eve and all I want to do is sleep. This year I got it made and we actually played board games and drank eggnog and laughed a lot Full Article…
As is not unusual we have a glut of things, and being me I don’t like to throw anything away so when I was given a bag of kumquats or cumquats (don’t know the correct spelling) I went looking for a brandied version. I recalled being horrified by the taste of them in my earlier, Full Article…
This is in deference to the massive quantity of rhubarb that I get during the Spring/Summer and Autumn. I hate waste so in addition to the rhubarb jam and cordial and stewed rhubarb, rhubarb relish, rhubarb ice-cream I made by stirring very lightly stewed rhubarb and limoncello into the no churn ice-cream recipe, rhubarb chutney based ham glaze, Full Article…
There are a lot of things out there that are purely for our convenience, that can easily be made at a much lower cost and in a much larger quantity, see the Dukkah recipe for a great example of this. Until recently I thought that spice mixes were a waste of time and money, if Full Article…
Home made mayonnaise is so easy and tastes so much better than the store bought stuff that it is worth making no matter how much you actually need. You do need a good mixer – I have used a food processor and a blender but the best is my new, super-fast Bamix. The food processor Full Article…
We are still picking mushrooms from our spent mushroom compost. They are coming up in the garden under the spinach leaves. The last thing we now feel like eating is mushrooms but I came up with this mushroom sauce recipe and it is really good. I can eat it even though I have difficulty looking Full Article…
I have finally ventured into growing my own milk kefir. These are my first “grains”, bought on e-bay. The 2 scoops of grains came packed in a zip-lock bag in a little powdered milk with a full set of instructions. This is enough to kefir about 1/2 litre of milk over 24 hours. I followed Full Article…
This is a really interesting punch – made with quite weak jelly, fruit juices and water, frozen overnight and then slightly defrosted and munched up and added to a sparkling drink such as ginger beer, ginger ale or lemon squash or for a more adult version it goes really well in sparkling wines (champagne). You Full Article…
So easy, so cheap, why not make your own vanilla extract Ingredients Method Put the beans into the clean bottle, cover with alcohol and place in a dark spot, not too far away because it needs to be shaken every day for a month. Smell regularly, it takes about a month to get the flavour Full Article…
It would be such a shame for any of the produce from our wonderful lemon trees go to waste so I had to make the ultimate sacrifice and come up with something else to do with my crop – something very alcoholic and very yummy – Limoncello! I was first introduced to limoncello by Sarah Full Article…
This is an absolutely fabulous sauce come jam that can be added to anything, from a dipping sauce with thickened yoghurt served with potato wedges, ham sandwiches, bacon and egg rolls or on cracker biscuits with a layer of cream cheese. It is totally addictive. I have come to dislike the standard sweet chilli sauce that comes Full Article…
Bearnaise Sauce (in a microwave) Maybe not so conventional but pretty easy and pretty foolproof, goes really well with steak or poached eggs. Follow the instructions in the method – pretty easy but the method needs to be followed. Ingredients Method: The sauce should be served warm. I make in advance, store with plastic wrap Full Article…
So we grew radishes – all types – fantstic because they grew so fast but the problem was what to do with them. This is so fast and is a great sauce to have with steak. Itis strong and bites a bit like horse radish sauce. (enough for a side dish for 6) Ingredients Method Full Article…
This is a similar dressing to the warm green salad except that I use palm sugar, cook it for a bit longer and add about 100g of cream cheese to make a creamy side dish to have with steak. The spices can be varied depending on what it is accompanying. Dressing Salad Greens Whisk the Full Article…
This is the most surprising salad I have ever made – the crisp fennel and the tangelo are so complementary and the dressing is just beautiful. Will definitely be on the Christmas recipe list to complement the ham. Ingredients Salad Orange vinaigrette Method Finely grate the rind from 1 tangello and reserve for dressing. To Full Article…
This recipe was given to us by a naturopath many years ago. It is claimed to cure almost anything, however, we have seen blood pressure lowered to normal levels in all of the people we have given the recipe to. It is meant to be taken for a 7 weeks course and the course repeated Full Article…