For the love of Mexican food!

There are a few things that really get my tastebuds all fired up. I love love love coriander and I love love mild chillies - Supe…

Of all the things we have done...

It is storming outside, a real wild wet Cape winter storm. I woke at 5.30 with one thing on my mind - my chickens! They are safe …

Yummy Pear Recipes

This week we have been enjoying our fresh apples and pears. But there are too many to eat fresh so I enlisted the help of a frien…

Winter weather, soup and jerseys

The last two days have seen us digging out our jerseys from the back of the cupboards as the distinctive winter cold is here. It …

Autumn food

Before my pumpkins succumbed to milddew in December they were able to set some fruits. Not anywhere close to what we had hoped f…

No much to do in the garden.

Besides for planting some carrot and baby spinach seeds there was not a lot to do in the garden. Therefore the kids and I tackled…

That moment in every canner's life....

Remember those guavas from last year? Well, I am sure I am not the first who has ever canned produce and then a few months later…

Bye Bye Baby

It was time...it had been looking at me for 2 weeks now...I had been admiring it from afar, but to all good pumpkins come their f…

You scratch my back....

5kg's of tomatoes from a friend who has them rotting on the ground have found their way into this recipe from Animal~Vegetab…

Laziness is relative!

I confessed the other day that I feel I have been wandering a bit in my convictions in certain areas of my homemaking. One such a…

Feeding my tastebuds!

I had hoped to post a few more times this week, but life has been too full to do it. But tonight I decided to harvest my rhubarb.…

Rainy day jobs

I was all ready to make an inroad into my long to do list but woke up this morning to the sound of rain. In between rainy moments…

A garden feast

We went away for the weekend to a little cabin on the beach to celebrate my 40th birthday...it was a time of reading, walks, beac…

Eating local...

I try to plan one meal completely from our garden once a week, more if our plants are yielding lots! Tonight we had this to work …