Kitchen Garden Guides

Favourite food

This page is a scrap book of things I have assembled to eat, at a moment's notice, that are extraordinarily good.

  1. A piece of my fresh multigrain, sourdough bread, cooled to room temperature.... Topped 1/2 with butter and 1/2 with avocado, plenty of pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice. Served with a glass of fresh orange juice and a shot of wheatgrass juice, silently made by hand. Aug 2013



2. Dinner = Rainbow salad from my garden and the Cygnet Community Garden plus wild weed dip (from my garden and kitchen!). Find my recipe here.
June 2013


3. Buckwheat and quinoa pancakes..... Sept 2013... I have discovered that quinoa flour pairs perfectly with buckwheat flour to make these gluten and wheat free pancakes as good as any with wheats. In fact, if you intend to keep the mixture for a few days, this is the mixture to use as it keeps its colour and still rises, days later. 


I  serve them with lashings of maple syrup, a few pieces of my bottled apricots and some home made yoghurt.
(Serves 4)
  • 1/2  cup buckwheat flour
  • 1/2 cup quinoa flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 2 eggs,
  • ½ cup plain yoghurt
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • Stewed or bottled fruit
  • Organic Maple Syrup
  • Yoghurt, preferably home made
4. Cauliflower Leaf Lasagne...... Sept 2013

I picked a magnificent cauliflower from my garden, plus all its enormous, glorious leaves. A few days later I picked another cauli and those leaves were filling up my fridge!!

So, I took out the ribs, shredded the leaves, threw them into a pan of water and let them cook for a good 5 minutes. Meanwhile I gently cooked an onion and a handful of garlic and parsley. When the cauli leaves were done, I mixed it all together in a bowl and used it as the filling for a lasagne. It was truly fabulous.... outstanding, in fact.

5. Artichokes..... Nov 2013


As I was packing up my gardening tools this evening I noticed several artichokes which had, I thought, passed their best and were opening up. In order to encourage more to develop I picked the 4 largest, tore off all the toughest leaves and brought them into the kitchen. I put them into a pot of boiling water just to see if there would be a little bit still edible. After 10 minutes I tested them with a sharp knife point and found them beautifully soft already.


On my plate, I cut 2 of them in half, drizzled with peanut oil and lemon juice and took them to the table. Surprisingly, they were magnificently delicious; every leaf edible and nothing left to throw away! Wow, looks can be deceptive!!


The best tasting artichokes I have had, I reckon.... and that's a BIG comment!!

6. Strawberries.... December 2013
Strawberries are spectacular here now and I bought several punnets of organic ones at the Cygnet market on Sunday.

I hulled 1/2 a punnet, plonked them in a dessert bowl, drizzled with balsamic vinegar and cup gum honey (which tastes like caramel.... native to SA) and put it in the microwave! When piping hot and slightly soft, I topped it with some good cream.... just a little bit.... and it all melted into the balsamic and honey.... Oh lalalala. Delicious dessert in less than 2 minutes.

7. Broad Beans..... December 2013

They may not look much, but freshly picked, young broad beans, blanched then mixed with slow cooked onion, some herbs, olive oil, lemon juice and pepper, on sourdough bread cooked in the same pan is heavenly.

I had some self-sown broad beans in my garden, and the community garden crop was massive. I can still taste that quick dinner now.....


No comments: