Fermenting your food is one of the healthiest ways to preserve your produce and what better way to start your fermenting journey than with a classic sauerkraut. It literally means ‘sour cabbage’ and after cabbage sits in its own salty water, this is exactly what it becomes. Traditionally made with green cabbage, purple cabbage adds extra benefits with its antioxidant…
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It’s pouring rain outside and I have the heater on full blast. This weather calls for comfort food and right now I couldn’t imagine a meal more comforting than gnocchi. Little soft pillows of dough. Tiny cushion dumplings. Small potato clouds… how many ways can you describe gnocchi? But let’s put textures aside for a second. Obviously the melt in…
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Winter is here! It’s been icy cold. We are apparently in for a very cold winter this year. This feels even more like a shock after the warm summer we’ve had. However, the cold is said to sweeten up some of our favourite vegetables so all is not lost! Sow from seed this month: Garlic, Peas, Broad Beans, Chard, Silverbeet,…
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Today I’m talking two topics: cheese making AND gardening! How? Well, stay tuned! I love cheese, all cheese but especially ricotta. I can eat a whole tub of it with a spoon. A little sprinkle of nutmeg, some salt and pepper…mmm. But unfortunately, it’s an expensive habit to have and all those little plastic pots it comes in are no…
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Let’s take about the benefits of yacon. This sweet, juicy tuber is packed with vitamins for a healthy immune system but one of its best properties is that it is meant to help with regulating blood sugars. It has a very low GI of 1 (Glycemic Index) which means the carbohydrates in yacon are metabolised and digested slowly which stops…
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