Chantenay carrots

This year our crop of beans hasn’t been too great; mix of unseasonable weather and either too much sun or a deluge of rain. But the tomatoes are on their way and now we have our first batch of chantenay carrots. Having never grown these or yellow courgettes, let’s see how the rest of summer…

Sausages and mash – a weekly regular

If your weekly dinner plan doesn’t consists of sausages and some form of potato and veggies, are you really even living? This staple is the one regular I have had all my life. In Oz, the preference is for a beef sausage but it wasn’t until 2004 when I discovered the pork sausage on these…

Winter comfort food essential

​Another several batches of essential winter comfort food veggies chopped and frozen, ready in eager preparation for upcoming slowcooker meals: onion, carrot, parsnip & swede…