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Delicious Dried Apples

Dried apples are one of the most useful (and easy) of winter preserves. Its the way to go for apples that are damaged in anyway and wont store well - bird pecks/ bruises/ black spot/ no stalks. Use them up while they're still good. Our home dried apples

ALi and me chopping herbs

How To Make Echinacea Tincture

This is me and my dear friend - medical herbalist, Ali Sutherland - making our annual supply of Echinacea tincture. An essential in both our homes first aid kit for preventing colds, hay fever and infections. A tincture - for those who are unsure, is a herb steeped in alcohol

Kawakawa + Ginger Tea

Kawakawa has a special place in my heart - it was the first 'real' (ie not from a bag) herb tea I ever made many moons ago. Such a powerful healer - 72 medicinal uses according to Murdoch Reilly's "Maori Healing and Herbal" -

comforting bean stew edible backyard nz

The Shellout Bean Harvest + A Comforting Bean Stew

The shellout beans are harvested and dried. Those jars of pretty beans in the pantry are my most satisfying preserve. A very meaningful store of fibre and protein. Have a go next year, you wont be disappointed. A comforting bean stew This is yum. Such comfort + nourishment from humble ingredients.

Elder flower harvest

How to Make Elderflower Cordial

Elderflower cordial is an annual make in our house - so delicious! Flowers move fast from bud to bloom to berry so get in quick. I like the flavour of the last flush of flowers that come about now, rather than the first ones in December. Flowers are perfect when

A bowl of homemade refried beans

Refried Beans

Refried beans are such a quick nourishing dinner. Dollop on a bowl of rice with greens and a fried egg on top, on toast under scrambled eggs with salad or our favourite - spread inside a warm tortilla with rice and greens and avocado. When everything bar the salt, cumin

Chillis going into the dehydrator

Homemade Chilli Flakes

These are one of the easiest, but most useful preserves ever. I mean how useful are chilli flakes! For simple electricity + appliance free dried chillis, simply string them up. Thread a needle and poke it through the meaty bit by the stalk. Hang them away from sunlight. For a jar

Raspberry rosemary chocolate fudge

Raspberry Rosemary Chocolate Truffles

Fresh, easy and rustic, just how we like it. Mashed raspberries stirred through melted chocolate and coconut milk with a sprinkle of rosemary ... mmmm Take 50g - 80g of fresh raspberries. Less berries makes a firmer mix. I like the flavour of more. Lightly mash them Break up 200g dark

5 bottles of homemade pasatta

Simple tomato passata + my cool machine

This new tool is the love of my life - it's a Rigamonti Passata machine. 100 times faster and easier than my old mouli which though its churned out litres and litres of tomatoes over the years, I wasn't sad to see go. Heartless. Roasted tomato

Tomato Miso Soup

I adore this soup, its one of the highlights of my tomato season. Best of all there's no fiddly peeling or de-seeding to do - you'll be slurping soup 15minutes after you picked the tomatoes. For 1 soup bowl: 4 or 5 homegrown tomatoes, roughly chopped

fermented carrots

Fermented Carrots

This title may not grab your taste buds, but it should! I've been scouting around for something to do with all the carrots I've got, and bumped into this gem from the inspiring team at Cornersmith- a cafe and picklery in Sydney who barter fresh produce

summer plum cake

Simple Summer Plum Cake

Gardeners are so busy at this time of the year. Add a job and a few kids to the mix, and cake baking, which should be near the top of the priority list languishes way below. Here's the world's most simple cake, especially for you my