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recipe: cookieandkate.com This homemade green goddess dressing recipe is so easy to make! It’s creamy, fresh, completely delicious—and a great way to use up your leafy herbs. Recipe yields about 1 ¼ cups dressing; multiply if desired. ingredients 1 cup plain Greek yogurt, preferably full-fat (made with whole milk) 1 cup lightly packed fresh herbs (tender stems are fine): use coriander, parsley, dill, basil and/or mint, with up to ¼ cup chives or green onion (sliced into ½″ segments) Optional: Up to 2 tablespoons fresh tarragon leaves 1 medium clove garlic, roughly cho ..read more

Happy 11th Birthday to us! In 2011 an enthusiastic group of locals started campaigning for a community garden, which was approved by Leichhardt Municipal Council, and the Mort Bay Community Garden Association was born. Council awarded the association a license to use the land in 2012. Finally, after COVID disrupted our plans to celebrate our first decade, we’re throwing an 11th Birthday party instead! Saturday 21st October 9-2pm Join us in the garden to help celebrate with special guests. Share a piece of carrot cake and raise a glass (non alc) to toast our success! We’ll have a sausage sizzle ..read more

2 servings 1 puff pastry 300 g Tuscan kale 2 onion 2 garlic 150 g bulghur 200 ml chicken stock 2 tablespoon olive oil 1/2 tsp nigella seeds Pepper Salt Dried chili Remove hard stalks from Tuscan kale and roughly chop. Dice onion and garlic. Cook bulghur in chicken stock, drain and let cool. Fry onions in olive oil until translucent, add garlic and fry for 1 more minute. Add Tuscan kale and let wilt. Season with salt, pepper and chili. Mix with the bulghur. Preheat oven to 220 C. Roll out the pastry 40 cm wide and 3 mm thick. Place filling on one long side of the pastry. Roll into a strudel, tu ..read more

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Citrus australasica, (the Australian finger lime), is believed to be up to 18 million years old. It’s a thorny under storey shrub or small tree of lowland subtropical rainforest in the coastal border region of Queensland and New South Wales. Read more from the Wikipedia article or from Sustainable Gardening Australia Growing finger limes Finger limes grow well in either the ground or a large container and can be treated in much the same manner that you would treat traditional lemons, limes and other citrus. This means positioning them in a sun ..read more

Come along to our annual stall outside the ANZ bank, corner Darling & Mort St Balmain on Saturday 3 December, 9 – 1pm. We have stalls selling PLANTS, our bespoke BEESWAX WRAPS and COTTON POT COVERS. Buy tickets in our annual XMAS RAFFLE with fabulous prizes! A HAMPER bursting with goodies, gifts and vouchers from our wonderful local businesses. Prizes winners will be announced Tuesday 6 December. Full list of prizes here: Raffle prizes web 2022Download ..read more

Radicchio is also known as Italian chicory. It has a slightly bitter flavour, which mellows when it’s grilled or roasted. In Italian cuisine it is usually eaten grilled with olive oil, or mixed into dishes such as risotto. I love it in a salad with the sweetness of orange or pear, walnuts and a soft cheese – even a creamy blue is delicious ingredients head of radicchio other salad leaves if you want to mellow the flavour handful of walnut pieces 1 orange or blood orange if in season 3 or 4 half rings of red onion 60g goat cheese (soft type – even a blue) dressing 1/3 cup olive oil 3 tbsp b ..read more

These bickies were very popular at our recent Open day. Thanks to Michiel and Suuz for the recipe! Ingredients 250g self-raising flour 150g butter, cubed (unsalted) 125g brown sugar 15g spice mix (see below) 2-3 tablespoons of milk Pinch of salt Spice mix secret recipe 8 teaspoons/parts of cinnamon 2 teaspoons/parts of nutmeg 2 teaspoons/parts of cloves 1 teaspoon/part of ginger powder 1 teaspoon/part of aniseed ½ teaspoon/part of white pepper ½ teaspoon/part of coriander (optional) Instructions Preheat the oven to 175C. In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, butter (a little soft m ..read more

Join us in the garden from 10 – 2pm PLANT stall delicious home made CAKES and savoury treats sausage SIZZLE Beeswax WRAPS (in 3 sizes) made from Northern rivers Ballina Honey beeswax Don’t forget our RAFFLE – with great prizes: Sackville Hotel voucher – Pepperseeds Thai voucher – Franck Provost Hair voucher Food Hamper from the Gladstone Store – Yoga with Tiffany class voucher – Bottles of fine wine Home made preserves Come and see some of the great improvements we’ve been busy doing in the last 12 months… a beautiful new shed, new irrigation system, garden signage, and see our plans for a ..read more