To be honest, I was most surprised to collect this trug-full of tomatoes because weird things happened in the city garden. The tomato patch looks as if some sort of creeping-fungal-knob-rot has enveloped the entire area.
The garden ruin looks biblical to a Catholic so I’m doing reruns of past sins to discover which one is [...]
This year has been my first fail with Dad’s beans. They are a snap bean from which he had been seed-saving since the 1950s and have quickly become a favourite with all who try them. The patch of garden in which they were sown had been carefully nurtured through winter with fish frames and guts, [...]
Posted in Kitchen on 17. Jan, 2010
With all the rhubarb crisp and cobbler, crumble and sponge searching I performed for Andrew’s birthday pudding I finally reached the stage where even the word “rhubarb” was beginning to look like a misspelling.
Eventually I settled on a recipe and then, in honour of my dear mother, I faffed about with it a bit though [...]
I made the Obama Inauguration Cornbread and to be honest it was a “yes, we can” kind of recipe with a bit of a “no, we can’t” thing going on when it came to the taste test.
It’s hard to convince New Zealanders that cornbread is a top idea in the first place. It’s harder to [...]
Posted in Kitchen on 20. Jan, 2009
Creamed corn is one of those food items easily overlooked until I’m doing a bulk shop for a holiday at the bach. Then I always buy a can. And it sits in the pantry until the day one stays in the surf so long and becomes so hungry that you eat your flippers and beach [...]
Posted in Kitchen on 20. Jan, 2009
In reality this is a creamed corn (Watties?) cornbread recipe but the name needed a more American twang so I bring to you for the first time ever, Internet, the recipe for Obama Inauguration Cornbread.
Ingredients
2 cups of yellow cornmeal
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 cup of (Watties?) creamed [...]
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