Summer Harvest Part 2 - The apple of my pink eye

Here are the first potatoes from our very own garden! Wowee! Check them out. I do get pretty excited about the humble spud, in fact, Tasmania's delicious potatoes were a big motivation, for me anyway, to move here. Upon arrival I knew I'd hit the jackpot when the local greengrocer had eleven different varieties on sale. Eleven! And that's not including washed or unwashed. Sure, sure, the cherries, the berries and the apples are great, but it's the potatoes that rock my world. The little waxy yellow ones to be precise, like these here pink eyes. When freshly dug up, steamed and served with a little butter and salt, they are delicious. Nothing like what you buy in the supermarket.
Sadly potatoes, cooked in any manner apart from chips, are pretty high on the disgusting list according to my children. So I tricked them by using Nigella's recipes for fishcakes from How to Eat. For those who don't know, it has an incredibly helpful chapter on feeding babies and small children. They loved them. But by now I've realised I could crumb and fry anything and my children will eat it.

For the grown ups, it's a meal entirely from our own garden, some eggs, potatoes and garlic, (sadly too dark to photograph). Zero food miles. Sure it's a small step in the scheme of things, but it means we're doing our bit for climate change, one tortilla at a time.

Summer Harvest Part 1

We've been enjoying our daily handful of strawberries and raspberries from the garden for a few weeks now. Delicious!
And we've picked a bumper blackcurrant crop to make jam and cordial. Three years of pruning, mulching, weeding, feeding, watering and netting has paid off - Yippee! However, the berries are really for the children.
Here is the apple of my eye from our garden; a good 70 heads or so of beautiful, pungent, purple garlic. I love to plunge my nose in this basket and inhale the heavenly fug. Divine.

Summer Daze

And so we wrap up the little break between Christmas and New Year. We've had such a lovely quiet time at home. It's been blissful not to race around but just hang out with the family.
The weather has been cold, summer seems to have come and gone. The daze have been filled with eating leftovers, baking treats, reading stories, and afternoon teas in play tents.
In between rainy days, Da has started to build a tree house. A little space to sit and dream. I'm so proud! Those lucky smalls!
Looking forward to summer's arrival any day now, surely, but at least all this rain is doing wonders for our bumper potato crop. Doesn't it look so lush!

We send our love and best wishes to you for a peaceful, healthy, delicious, and happy new year, cheers to all!