When we bought this year’s supply of garlic from our friends Ian and Diana, they generously threw in a handful of miniature bulbs for roasting. I peeled back the excess paper, sliced the tops off the bulbs, then drizzled them with olive oil and a sprinkling of sea salt. These were wrapped in foil and [...]
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Roasted Garlic
Posted in Food & Friends on January 28, 2012 | 61 Comments »
Anarel Garlic
Posted in Food & Friends, tagged Anarel garlic, Australian garlic, local garlic on January 7, 2012 | 50 Comments »
Our friends Ian and Diana Ditchfield are small scale garlic growers based in the NSW Central Tablelands. Their crops are grown chemical free, and lovingly tended by hand. This year they’ve grown Australian White Garlic ($25/kg or $15/500g)… …Australian Red Garlic ($25/kg or $15/500g), my new favourite… …and Purple Stripe Garlic ($30/kg or $18/500g). If [...]
Christmas Bounty
Posted in Food & Friends, tagged La Rochere bee, Marcella Hazan book, Papaya Homewares, pate knife, pizzelle iron, speculaas, T2 on December 27, 2011 | 67 Comments »
I hope you all had a great Christmas! There were some wonderful treasures under the tree this year, including the adorable Papaya Christmas decoration above, a gift from Chris and Andrea. I was overjoyed to receive a set of La Rochère bee tumblers from Pete’s cousin Fiona! I’ve been trying to find a set for [...]
Festive Loaves and Doctor Who
Posted in Food & Friends on December 26, 2011 | 41 Comments »
My friend Lil is Luca’s big sister, and she and I are big Doctor Who fans! She bought me a River Song bracelet for Christmas, and I gave her and Luca a copy of The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012. In the back of the book was a paper doll…did you know fezzes are [...]
Merry Christmas!
Posted in Food & Friends on December 25, 2011 | 26 Comments »
A bowl of red and green from our garden to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! With love, Celia, Pete, Big Boy, Small Man and the Chooks ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
