I was lucky to be the facilitator at Reyne and Peter’s place. I was happy to organise the fuel for the willing volunteers on the day. Penny and I put the lunch together, everyone was so happy. Plus Tom and Fennina made gluten free pancakes with stewed fruit. The kids even scoffed down the stewed […]
Saturday 16th November, Earthcare is hosting a bushfire relief fundraiser at Ling’s cooking workshop. All the workshop proceeds are being donated and folks can just come for lunch and donate $50 as well. We raised $893 from the event and donated to the salvation army via the supermarket as they are matching dollar for dollar. […]
Broad bean garlic chilli Also known as Fava Beans. These were picked from the garden in Merrylands, fresh was good. They are ripening now, even though ours ripen earlier than they used to. The first crop was in November, this lot was september. If you harvested too many to eat, they can be dried and […]
Todays workshop turned out to be something of a lesson in resilience and how things can work out well anyway. A few items were forgotten on the essential list, like the rice and the oil. Then what to do? The main ingredient for the day was a resilience attitude by everyone there. Things got worked […]
Gluten Free Pancakes Ingredients FG Roberts gluten free flour, 4 heaped dessert spoons 1 egg 1/2 cup soy milk 1/2 cup water 1 teaspoon sugar Oil for frying. Ling used coconut oil For the stewedmfruit sauce 1 cup blueberries 1 cup strawberries 1 apple sliced and peeled 1 pear peeled and chopped 3 dessert spoons […]
When Ling’s dear friend Majidi went overseas she left her Tangine for Ling to play with. Tonight was the night for a meeting of North Africa with South East Asia. Ling dreamed up another inviting fusion food dish. Here’s the recipe. It was served with sticky rice and a RawLao mushroom dip ingredients 500g brown […]
What to do with mushrooms? Here’s an inspiration from Ling. Ingredients 300g of brown mushrooms 5 large green chilli 1 clove of garlic 1/3 cup of chopped fresh coriander 1 tablespoon of soy sauce 1/3 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon of lemon or lime juice Method Grill chilli, garlic (with skin on) and mushroom until browned and […]
the workshop Strictly speaking, the rice with banana and coconut milk was to die for at the saturday workshop. Everyone enjoyed and loved the savoury Mok Het which is mushroom, bamboo shoots, pumpkin, lemon grass and a few spices wrapped in banana leaf. (Mok, in Lao traditionally means wrapped in banana leaves and cooked in […]
CHOCOLATE HAPPINESS Must be true that chocolate makes you happy, for everyone at the fund raiser was quite happy after trying all the different varieties of delicious preparations. It was a chilly Kurrajong saturday night when Tom and I attended the fund raiser for Beatrice! Umoja Centre Two weeks ago, my dear friend Karen had […]
Health and Happy Heart 