Category: home-grown produce

baking / basil blooms. / braided border for quiche / brassica blooms / home-grown produce / pastry / quiche / salad

March 1, 2017

Smoked Pork Sausage Quiche With Braided Edges

Not a quiche again!! I know. I know! But it’s the first day of March and I wanted to try out something new regarding quiches. I had been reading up on coconut oil crusts...

brassica flowers / chicken / home-grown produce / Moran ginger / pea shoots / rice wine vinegar / sesame oil

February 22, 2017

Pea Shoots Salad With Chicken & Cucumber

If I am sitting down and enjoying this with a little more gusto than I usually do, it is for a very good reason. My kind of small space gardening was never about competing...

beet salad / dried cranberries / extra virgin olive oil. / home-grown produce / labneh / micro greens / spinach

November 4, 2016

Beetroot Salad With Labneh & Dried Cranberries

Beetroot salad with labneh & dried cranberries With all the gorging that happened in the last week of last month, I am including more helpings of salads in my meals. With the micro greens,...

cashewnuts. / home-grown produce / rice wine vinegar / salad / soya sauce / yardlong beans

October 27, 2016

Yardlong Bean Salad

Diwali is just round the corner but before I write about something sweet, here’s a salad made from home-grown beans. These are yardlong beans and available throughout the summer months. Since I don’t have...

edible blooms. / home-grown produce / salad / sponge gourd flowers

October 22, 2016

Mixed Salad With Sponge Gourd Flowers

It was only recently I learnt that the blooms of the sponge gourd are edible. I do have a fascination for edible blooms but in my part of the world they seem to be...

baking / decorative pie crust / home-grown produce / pie / Pineapple / starfruits

July 28, 2016

Pineapple & Starfruit Pie

Pineapple & starfruit pie Apart from baking with yeast, I have also been trying out leafy and floral pie crusts. Not all of them get blogged about as something (minor) goes wrong and I...

curry / hedgehog gourd / home-grown produce / leafy greens / summer vegetable / teasel gourd

July 10, 2016

Teasel Gourd In A Green Curry

Summer means gourds and teasel gourd happens to be my favourite. Despite its spiny appearance (which gives it its other name…hedgehog gourd) the taste is mild. I usually buy this vegetable but the other...

baking / basil / bread / home-grown produce / pesto bread rolls

June 26, 2016

Pesto Bread Rolls

Pesto bread rolls As I type this I can see my jamun tree with only a few fruits left. Seasons come and go but for food bloggers, each one is a delight with the...

home-grown produce / jamun jam / jamun juice / trifle pudding

June 24, 2016

Trifle Pudding With Jamun Jam

Trifle pudding with jamun jam Jamun season is almost over. And like every year the splash of purple has been intense!:) Before the season is truly over, the enthusiasm to use more of the...

baking / basil plants / home-grown produce / pesto muffins

June 14, 2016

Pesto Muffins

I’m pretty happy with the growth of my basil plants this year. There was a time when I would make pesto and then wait for the leaves to grow again. That felt like the...