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Tag Archives: Preserving
The last couple of weeks at Chez Bee
Some of the goings on around my neck of the woods…
Posted in A farmers' market cornucopia, Dinner, Drinks, Food, Gardening, Snapshot
Tagged Australia, Autumn, Cooking, Dinner, Farmer's market, Farmers' markets, Food, Gardening, Happiness, Inspiration, Local food, Preserving, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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A farmers’ market cornucopia: preserving those tomatoes
I’ve finally made my way through most of my box of tomatoes. Let me show you all the goodies I’ve made…. Tomato sauce/ketchup. This stuff is to die for and the original reason why I snapped up the box, but … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Local, Make your own, Uncategorized
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Farmer's market, Farmers' markets, Local food, Make your own, Organic, Preserving, Summer, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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A farmers’ market cornucopia: tomatoes
The last week or so it’s been raining and raining and raining. Signficant parts of the state have been flooded (and other states too). And the tomatoes don’t like the rain much either. So at the farmers market this morning … Continue reading
Posted in A farmers' market cornucopia, Food, Make your own
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Farmer's market, Farmers' markets, Floods, Food, Make your own, Preserving, Summer, Tomatoes, Vegetables
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Berry and apple jam
A few years ago if you’d asked me what my favourite bought jam was I would have answered “some type of berry jam”. Until this year I had only ever made one batch of berry jam. We eat all sorts … Continue reading
This summer in my kitchen…
Posted in Breakfast, Dinner, Drinks, Food, Inspiration, Lunch, Snapshot
Tagged Australia, Bread, Breakfast, Cooking, Dinner, Food, Happiness, Inspiration, Jam, Local food, Lunch, Make your own, Organic, Preserving, Summer, Vegetables
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Pear and apple google indulgence
Please indulge me for this post. I’m slightly in shock, good shock though. So good that I’m about to toot my own horn, because I can’t think who’d appreciate this more than my lovely readers. I hope you don’t mind. … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Inspiration, Random
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Food, Fruit, Google, Happiness, Inspiration, Jam, Preserving, Recipe, Recipes
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Bookish inspiration
I’m currently reading The Real Food Companion (at Fishpond and Amazon). Yeah, it’s a recipe book, yep I’m reading it cover to cover. It’s not just that I’m that sort of person who likes to read recipe books for relaxation, I do, but it’s also (trust me) … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment, Ethics, Food, Gardening, Inspiration, Local
Tagged Australia, Book, Cooking, Dinner, Environment, Farmer's market, Farming, Food, Fruit, Gardening, Happiness, Health, Inspiration, Make your own, Organic, Preserving, Recipe, Vegetables
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Happy New Year
Hello everyone, Happy New Year! How have you been? It’s been a long time between posts hasn’t it? Yeah, the 18th of March 2011 to be precise. Life and work has just been really busy and I made the choice … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Happiness is, Inspiration, Random, Snapshot, Uncategorized
Tagged 2012, Australia, Bread, Cooking, Farmer's market, Farmers' markets, Food, Happy New Year, Jam, Local food, Preserving, Summer, Vegetables, Yoghurt
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The tomatoes are here!
It is most definitely summer here at Chez Bee. And the tomatoes I planted back in November are producing copious amounts of fruit. That is, the Rouge de Marmande that I bought as seedlings, not my other seedlings that I … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardening, Make your own
Tagged Australia, Bottling, Cooking, Food, Freezing, Gardening, Ketchup, Make your own, Preserving, Summer, Tomatoes, Vegetables
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I’m back… with some random musings….
Hello! I’m back! And so happy to be back! You know how work often has periods of the year when it’s crazy? This is one of my two crazy times during the year. In the last couple of weeks, when … Continue reading
