garden goodies
September 22, 2008
Home grown… they just don’t sell ‘em as good these days
above: a fijoa tree… a delicious blend of sweet, sour and bitter all in the same mouthful!
above: big green chillies… slicked and soaked in a jar of vinegar makes a great crunchy dip for foods.
above: cherry tomatoes… sweet, sweet cherries (thanks to Teddy at El Kanah 
)
making muesli mouthwatering
February 13, 2008
Muesli’s either the best tasting or worst tasting breakfast food you can find on the shelf, depending on what you do with it.
Spending my first five years in Singapore and growing up in an Asian household meant that I never really ate typical Aussie breakkies like cereal and toast. You find that in China, Malaysia, India and other Asian countries simply eat savory in the morning. What we eat for lunch or dinner is the same thing at breakfast. And it’s WAY better!!! You can’t imagine the boredom presented to me at breakky when I went on Aussie camps. Cereal and milk. Toast. Eggs and bacon if you’re lucky. I couldn’t believe this is all white people eat (at least when I was in Germany, breakfast was deluxe! Varieties of bread, cheese and hams and exquisite bakery goodies! Oh, the smell of the bakeries!). Plus, it’s all so processed!
Anyway, on Tidal River SUFM I began to enjoy muesli for the very first time. Coles toasted muesli with milk and… wait for it… stewed rhubarb. The latter made all the difference! Suddenly muesli was tolerable; but more than that, it tasted good! I looked forward to it!
The key to muesli (since it’s such a bland taste), I discovered is to add lots of healthy, fun foods. It’s gotta be good quality too. There’s no point adding fruit salad if it’s just out of the SPC can. That’s far too sweet and artificial. Make your own fruit salad or rhubarb stew. Add yoghurt and serve with milk.
fruit salad trough
February 11, 2008
Called it a ‘trough’ cos Mum made so much of it and proceeded filled up a huge reglangular bowl to the top, it looked like something pigs would eat out of!
Anyway, not entirely sure what’s in it. But it tasted good with strawberry yoghurt and my plum honey & cinnamon syrup.
fruit salad w/ honey plum sauce
January 29, 2008
Thought of a great way to use my honey plum sauce. One was to marinate pork in it and grill it (I once had a delicious cranberry pork dish prepared by my landlord in Townsville. He put other herbs and spices in it. But it tasted great with rice). The other way was to use it as a sauce on top of fruit salad! Judith, Lilian and Roxanne from ROAR came to have lunch in my backyard today and really enjoyed it. I’m glad
stone fruit salad
January 29, 2008
plum picking
December 24, 2007
Enjoying the fruit of my mum’s labour, literally…
banana drought
December 21, 2007
At a tragic time in Aussie history when we had no bananas (or they were $14/kg), West Timor missions (Dec 2007) became a banana haven.
