Our volunteers’ and our yurt guest’s children enjoy making their own pizzas for dinner, with fresh-picked ingredients from the garden Can’t wait until we get our bread oven built, it was waaaay too hot to be cooking them in the gas oven in the kitchen!
Posts under ‘Produce, Food & Recipes’
Potato slices
A typical Austrian dish is very easily made: Potato slices. Especially when you have from last dinner some cooked potatoes left. Here the recipie (for 5 people): 500g potatoes 1 egg 170g flour 30g butter oliveoil to fry the slices How you do it: Cook the potatoes, peel and mash them. Let the mash cool [...]
Cream Tea Gone Wrong
Not all our cookery turns out to plan. Glut of strawberries = strawberry jam, an afternoon activity for Poppy = baking scones, and Kirsten offered to buy some cream while she was out. Yum! Cream tea to look forward to! The jam didn’t set, something wierd happened to the scones (Matt swears it was because [...]
Carob Crunch
This is adapted from the Cranks Recipe Book, a really quick and easy treat! Somewhere between biscuit and cake (as recipe = thinner and more biscuity, double quantities = thicker and more cakey). It’s especially good if you add a tablespoon of thick jam (we always have some that’s set too much) or fruit preserved [...]
Broad Bean Pate
We’ve got a glut of broad beans at the moment, and I’m not all that keen on them, but this is delicious! 225g broad beans 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 small onion 2 cloves of garlic, crushed 2 talbespoons tomato paste pinch stock powder paprika Cook the beans in boiling water until tender. Saute the [...]
Strawberry Season has started
We are very happy
Blue Salad -Borage Flowers
Last night we had borage flowers in our salad which is a first for me. Borage can be used as a fresh vegetable or a dried herb. The flower has a sweet honey-like taste and is one of a few blue-coloured edible things. (Although maybe you shouldn’t eat tons of them as they contain a [...]
Asparagus and poached eggs for breakfast
This morning we had produce from our chickens and vegetable garden for breakfast. …served in various ways. My friend Zoe got me in to this combination but I have never had it so fresh before!
