One of my favourite and really really simple salads is a cucumber salad with yoghurt & dill sauce.
Can't give you quantities as I jsut chuck things together to taste:
Thinly sliced European Cucumber (the long skinny ones, or Lebanese would work, too). A mandoline type slicer is really handy for that.
Dressing:
plain yoghurt (I use mostly greek style yoghurt)
salt
freshly crushed garlic
chopped dill (generous)
a dash of red wine vinegar (depending on how acidic your yoghurt is)
a little olive oil
combine all in a bowl with a small whisk or fork until creamy
Mix with the cucumber and let stand in the frisdge for 1/2 hour to let the flavours develop
This is really refreshing and goes well with greek dishes or comfort foods like lamb stew. And oh so simple.
I made a capsicum and tomato sauce the other week. It turned out very nice, expect DH though I should have added some chilli. Well I would have, but our chillies are not quite ready yet. We had been inundated with tomatoes and it was a nice way to use them up. We already had some jars of pasta sauce made and have just started to use them. They are really quite yummy.
Think it has been ages since I have bought biscuits for the house (have bought the odd packet if I have had to go somewhere last minute). Been baking cakes as well. For lunches rather than resorting to tins of spaghetti for the girls I have been whipping up veggie piklets with our home grown veg. The girls seem to really love them.
I have been feeling so much better for home grown veg and homemade food. Whilst it is not all time, it is most of the time. I tend to be snacking less and really looking forward to some of the dinners we have been having lately. Silverside with homegrown cabbage is quite good.
would love some advice on what to do with the last stash of cherry tomatoes we have. I had to pull them off the vine still green. They have been sitting in the window sill for about 4 weeks and som hav an orange tinge, and thats about it. Some have even gone rotten so I better do something with them quickly
If I cook them, will they taste like normal tomatoes?
Mabello - try putting the in a bag with a banana...It may help them ripen a little, may not at this stage.
You could try making a green tomato chutney from them...
Just waiting for our veggie patch to take off. We are getting lettuce at the moment, but not much else. Ooh and we now have chickens! So I am always looking at ways to use eggs.
I admit to still have the odd jar of ready made stuff on the shelf, it has come in handy for back-ups, but that should reduce as we will have a heap more homegrown food that will require preserving in some way.
It is intersting with the baking, I noticed that my eldest does not ask to buy biscuits from the supermarket, but she does put in requests for what I am to bake next.
Vege frittata is always a good way of getting rid of eggs!!! If you have a friend who is crafty and does stuff you want, you can always exchange eggs for stuff I do that with a friend who helps me with sewing stuff... I give her 12 eggs a month.
Been hoping to find someone willing to buy the excess, but most people have their own chooks here, or know someone who they already get them off. So I sometimes give them away. I find that giving away any of our excess produce often means something else will come our way later on
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I do that with a friend who helps me with sewing stuff... I give her 12 eggs a month.
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