Hello!!
I found someone to swap my raspberries for blueberries!! Pity we are at the end of the season – but keeping the fellows number for next year!!
Anyway, blueberry muffins seemed like a good idea! (Ice cream next??)
Then I took an idea from Margaret. We hadn’t saved many plums, but what I got I cooked, took out the pips and ‘moolied’ (got pulp). I gave some to Margie who wanted to turn it into a version of the BBQ sauce. I thought that was a great idea, since I am out of BBQ sauce and not rolling in tomatoes yet to make more in the conventional way.
I reckon it turned out pretty great. (Added bonus was no room left in freezers really so I need to cook what I have to save it!)
I am still dreaming of pesto… so trying to grow a few more basil plants. Happy to see some roots appear on these
This cucumber got picked and half put into tonights salad! Lovely and fresh tasting!
Plenty of flowers and a couple of other small ones that have started growing… hopefully the leaf trim back I did will help with pollination.
Also will have to get out the whitefly mix soon!!
Picked two more tomatoes today, and ate the first one!
Oh its soooooo good to have a real tomato again! Loved it!
I made ‘zucchini balls’ to go with dinner today but essentially they were more like ‘splats’ than ‘balls’
You grate zucchini, carrot and onion, add in a couple of eggs and add SR flour and a bit of cumin. The recipe said one cup of SR flour but I really needed a lot more. Anyway, it wasn’t firm enough to roll into a ball so I just scooped the mixture out of the bowl and dropped into a pan of hot oil to shallow fry.
Served with Greek yoghurt and yummo!
We did a lap of Anniversary Bay today… trying to start getting fitter as we have about 6 weeks until our next Overland Trek.
My it was HOT!
On the way home I stopped in at a farm and picked up some hay – need to clean out chook coop and also use it as mulch under the pumpkins and around.
So hopefully tomorrow might be an actual gardening day!!
Hope your week has been going along splendidly!!
Cheers
When you make your barbecue sauce, do you can it? Or refrigerate it?
I don’t do conventional canning – I just sterilise the bottles in the fridge. That combined with the vinegar keeps the sauce good for eons! Once I open on I usually keep it in the fridge. So far no problems – Ruby has been doing it this way all her life so I figure I’m good to continue the method 🙂
I think in the States there are strict canning rules to follow if you are selling it. Not sure about personal use.
I’ve used plums instead of tomatoes in an Asian flavoured sauce I make and they work well. I usually have more plums than tomatoes.
I’ve agreed to a 30 mile hike in December so that’s my incentive to get fit. I’m also going away for a walking weekend in the summer and this year there’s paddle boarding too. That’s great except my balance is shocking and it means wetsuits :-0
I agree the plums make a lovely base in sauces and jams!! Pretty happy I adapted this one. Usually we would have more plums too… but what with the birds…. and looking at all the little tomatoes that have started everywhere around the garden… I might be swimming in them soon! Yay!
Wow on the hike!! Thats a fair distance! How many days is that going to be? lol re the paddle boarding. I am happy to sit my backside firmly down in the kayak. Got to get back onto the water… its the weather for it! I really want to do some hiking through the countryside in the UK one day. It looks so insanely beautiful!! Its on our ‘list’
We’ve got to do the walk inside 15 hours!! And navigate. There’s a 50 mile hike that has to be finished within 24 hours but I think the 30 is enough of a challenge!
And I tell you what. We live in the middle of the UK on the edge of the Cotswolds. You can come and stay on our sofa bed if you come to England if we can camp on your lawn if we ever make it to Tasmania :-))
Wow!!! Again!! That is going to be amazing!! Yes, I’ll agree that 30 miles is plenty!
Ooooooo – I would love to take you up on that offer!! I’ll even upgrade you from the lawn to a bed!!! 😀
Sounds delightful!! 😀
Deal!!