Both thanks to Catalan Gardener. First is the health benefits of Olive Leaf Tea. Olive leaf has been reported to: * Enhance the immune system * Increase energy * Have an internal cleansing action * Act as an anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and anti-parasitic * Lower blood pressure, fats, and reduce blood sugar Olive Leaf Tea, [...]
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Olive Oil & Lemon Cake
We made this, and the vegan chocolate cake, to take to friends for an Easter dinner yesterday. INGREDIENTS: 2 eggs 125g caster sugar grated rind of 2 lemons and juice of 1 200ml olive oil (+ extra for greasing) 2tbsp milk 175g SR flour, sifted DIRECTIONS: Preheat the oven to 190c/375f/gas 5. Grease and line [...]
Vegan Chocolate Cake
Ingredients 3 cups SR flour (680 grams) 2 cups sugar (450 grams) 6 tablespoons cocoa (100 grams) 2 teaspoons baking soda (10 cc = 10 ml) 1 teaspoon salt (5 cc = 5 ml) 3/4 cup vegetable oil (200 cc) 2 tablespoon vinegar (30 cc) 2 teaspoon vanilla (10 cc) 2 cup cold water (480 [...]
Simple Broad Bean Stir Fry
As it says, very simple. Fry some onions til transparent in olive oil, add some soya sauce. Better quality soya sauces are preferable, such as Shoyo or Tamari. Add your young broad beans – they are best at the start of the broad bean season. Optionally add some other greens – I had a small [...]
White Sweetcorn Transplanted
Yesterday, after 3 days of acclimatisation (being out from under the plastic), the baby sweetcorn plants got transplanted into the ned in the garden where they will grow. The seed tray is now full of unusual tree seeds, ones that needed cold stratifying for 4 weeks – such as sequoia and redwood. Big trees! I [...]
Oh No, More Broad Beans
In almost every dinner now – they are still mainly very small tender baby broad beans. We can pick a basket of them every day and it doesn’t make a dent on what we have growing. Stir fries, salads, stews, I put them in wherever I might use dry beans (or the cheaply bought jars [...]
Morangos Sem Azucar
First strawberry today. I ate it before I took a photo.
Cherry Blossom and Broad Beans
It must be spring, I heard a cuckoo yesterday, we have started eating broad beans and the cherry blossom has become tiny cherries (although my photo was taken while the site was down and is still beautiful blossom). The broad beans are still very tiny, but are fantastic in stir-fries, which I am amazingly managing [...]
Marvellous March Munch
Here’s last night’s dinner with everything except the rice produced from the garden! Everything, including food, is so colourful this time of year. Ingredients picked fresh from the garden. Stir-fried beetroot, onion, broccoli, pumpkin, brussels sprouts, and asparagus. Sounds like an odd combination but it tasted wonderful! Add rice, spinach and coriander and we have [...]
