Day: June 2, 2024
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Currant Pie
Looking for a simple but delicious recipe for weekend morning teas. We were privileged to try this old granny Quakers recipe earlier this week and it was a real hit. This is all there is to it. Puff pastry 1box currants 100 grams butter 100 grams sugar 1 egg Bake 180 for 30mins Cream butter…
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Lablab (Lablab purpurea)
If you ever need a productive Autumn cropper, Lablab Bean (Lablab purpurea, Hyacinth bean) is excellent. The bean is high protein and full of nutrients, just a bit coarse and containing a toxin that requires good cooking, like stews and curries. Leaves and flowers are edible and nutritious as well. Prepare green lablab beans like…
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Choko
Grown in almost every granny’s backyard, the humble choko is making a comeback! Most of us are familiar chokos but did you know that they also come in white and yellow. You may also see a very spikey version which is apparently the offspring of a white and a green that have interbred. Chokos, not…
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May in the Food Forest
May is my absolute favourite month in our subtropical garden. In season now are pawpaws, citrus, edible ginger flowers and a huge abundance of pumpkins and bananas. If you are lucky enough there are also beautiful rosellas! Also, capsicums, cherry tomatoes, loquats, custard apples, the last of the peanut butter fruits and acerola cherries. Then…
Brisbane Edible Gardening 