Recipe: Rocket, Fennel and Orange Salad

This beautiful fresh salad is great to serve with chicken or pork. Ingredients: 2 fennel bulbs 4 oranges 4 cups rocket 1 lemon, juiced 1 shallot, chopped 4 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 2 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1/2 teaspoon dried tarragon salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste Method: Thinly slice fennel Peel...

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Recipe: Kombucha

We’re big fans of Kombucha in our house. There’s plenty of places to buy Kombucha, but once you get a handle on making it yourself (and experimenting with flavours), I promise you’ll never buy it again. Ingredients: 4 litres of water 8 (black) teabags 1 cup of sugar Scoby 1/2 to 1 cup of Kombucha (commercial,...

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A Few False Starts

I saw an old mate not long ago at the markets. He saw me before I saw him and he crept up as I was spruiking my wares out the front of the stall. “Last time I saw you, you were working on a building site. Weren’t you a wall and floor tiler? Geez, is this you now?”, he asked as he looked around. “You had a couple of false...

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