Winter is over and we are still alive.......

Although we haven't posted anything over the winter we are still alive and we have eaten well. It has been the wettest winter here for about 50 years apparently. Much of this wetness came later in winter and so our brassicas established themselves well early on and fed us right up till now. We have been eating heaps of kale (3 different types), broccoli, purple-sprouting broccoli, sugarloaf and savoy cabbages and purple cauliflowers


We also had a great crop of swedes (which I think are called rutabagas in North America), beets, carrots, winter spinach and silverbeet (chard). Together with our stored garlic, shallots, pumpkins and bottled tomatoes, frozen ducks and free-range pork (which we bought as a whole beats and froze) we have eaten really well this winter. Unfortunately, most of this went undocumented mostly because we were slack and partly because it's much nicer taking food photos with natural light. We're only now getting into days that are long enough to eat dinner at dusk.

Here are three random meals that I happened to photograph:

A kind of ratatouille made with the last of our eggplants, capsicums and tomatoes (all roasted first) served with polenta and grilled chicken thighs


A noodle, cabbage and carrot salad - Thai-style - served with grilled albacore tuna


agnoloti stuffed with roasted pumpkin and topped with sage, garlic, butter and parmesan