cooking

I love making people gifts and I'm always keen to make my gifts homemade. I didn't have much time for crafting unfortunately so I decided to make some goodies from the kitchen. Reasons I like...

Preserving is another good way to reduce food waste. It allows you to use up excess fruit and vegetables for consumption later and is especially good for things that are getting overripe. It's...

Use very ripe tomatoes for the best flavour. If you can afford to buy good quality vinegar, such as apple cider vinegar, do so. Otherwise you can just use cheap white vinegar but it will give your...

Zucchinis are cheap and plentiful during summer and if you have zucchinis growing in your garden there will inevitabley come a week when your plants produce more than you could possibly eat. This...

For this chutney you cook the first step is beetroot whole with the skin on. This keeps in more of the flavour and nutrients of the beetroot than if you were to peel it first then cook it. Peeling...

I was amused to come across this article supposedly about people who live in cold houses by choice. I'm not sure how much of it was about choice or necessity for most of those interviewed...

A neighbour left a big box of lemons out for passers-by to help themselves to. It's one of the things I really like about our neighbourhood. I often leave our rosemary or other herbs for the...

I opened up the bin, and took out the contents to photograph. Besides some rather unsavory fruit peelings that didn't fit in the worm farm/Bokashi bin, here's what we ended up with from the kitchen....

I went to buy some fetta for a recipe (a vegan version of the recipe is featured here on my craft blog) I was intending to cook to use up some of the silver beet and broad beans in our garden. They...

The meringues came in a clear plastic bag within a recycled box, the plastic obviously being non-recycled.  I was tempted to ask them to take them home but decided that was cheating! I've...