Sweet basil pesto with seeeds Redolent with sun drenched summer days, I love sweet basil! Traditional genoese pesto includes pinenuts, but I’m certain the peasants who first tossed this together would have found them lying around in the pine forest and would not have used them if they had to pay $10 for a tiny…
Tag: “summer garden”
The BEST roast vege salad ever
How to make the BEST roast vege salad ever So delicious and colourful and such a hit with everyone! Mix and match according to the seasons and flavours. After years of wedding catering and close to a hundred roast vege salads behind me I figured out how to avoid a soggy mushy mess, and instead…
Scarlet Runners
Native to mountainous Central America where they are pollinated by hummingbirds, these are a cooler weather bean that have adapted well to our precarious early summer in the South Island. These are the BEST bean to grow. They are what got me back into gardening thirty years ago when, as a working mother of little…
Artichoke plants to give away
I have plenty of these babies growing right now, so if you are local and want some please let me know. You can either message me through the blog or pm me.
Lemony zucchini and tuna spaghetti
I picked the first zucchini yesterday! Casting around for ideas for something new to make, I remembered a dish I ate in 13 years ago in Stromboli, when we went to a seafood trattoria called Ai Gechi one night. We had the two girls in tow (then 15 and 18) so our 50-euros-a-day spending money…
food ripe from my garden 