So this week is the local food challenge, and a few if us in Darwin have signed up (or not and are doing it anyway) and we are challenging ourselves to eat more local food than ever. For some, like Jon, that is all of his Fresh Fruit and veggies are from less than 100…
Month: March 2013
Eggplant Abundance
This versatile fruit, is a wonderful vegetable (yes it is a fruit technically and a vegetable in the culinary sense) coming in all different shapes and sizes, appropriate for different creations. As they grow all year, I have come to know and love them and cook them a thousand different ways. Even at Alawa Primary…
Gourd-egeous
Oh the fun to be had with a newly grown moustache (Thanks Dan for growing and Ness and Col for modeling)
Root of the Week
ROOTITOOT…. coming soon in you guessed it, NT News, on The food Page on Thursdays- “Root of The Week”, celebrating our wonderful local roots, here are a few pics to get ya going, more info coming up…
Bread Fruit and The Pitcairn story
Bread fruit is an amazing fruit, with an amazing story! In preparation for our local food week, I have been on the look out for great ingredients in place of rice, pastas and stuff like that. I saw heaps of bread fruit at Rapid Creek Markets on Sunday and was reminded of this great story and some…
Guava rama!
GUAVA Guava- (Psidium guajava) is growing right here in the top end, right now and throughout the year. This fruit is from a small tree/ large bush with shiny leaves. The fruit is sweet and has a soft inner yummy part, which is a bright pink colour. Guavas grow in the tropical and sub tropics….
A friend told me about this great network about eating local and sustainably. It is not based in the NT, but is a national organisation and has a great website. The local harvest challenge is between 1st and 7th April and is a wonderful idea that is promoted through Local Harvest and challenges you to eat locally…
Jack Fruit
More Jackfruits have been coming off our tree and now it needs a prune. I popped Jackfruit in the NT News “what the fruit” this week, so here it is again .We usually deal with ours and take out the seeds on the verandah or in the garden, as it can be a messy business!…
Let’s Go To Lakeside!
I have posted here before about Lakeside Drive Community Garden before. It is an amazing garden on Lakeside Drive, near Alawa, Rapid Creek and Milner. The garden is open to everyone, it was started by a student group at CDU and is developing with growing community involvement. I am now doing some work for the…
Tasteofthetopend 