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Melting Moments with Passionfruit Icing
Melting Moments are lovely old-fashioned biscuits, but to add an extra frisson, these ones have a subtle passionfruit flavoured filling – (which really means these biscuits can be called ‘Passionate Moments’!) The recipe for the biscuits given below is my Grandma’s recipe, just as she used to make them, but you can […]
Posted in Biscuits, Icings and Fillings
Preserved Passionfruit Pulp
In New Zealand, passionfruit fall from the vines in late February and through March (late summer and into autumn). My Dad grew the passionfruit used in the following recipe, and he is so successful at growing these that we had abundance of them. Rather than see them go to waste, we decided to […]
Edible Plants in Mum’s Garden and in My Garden
MUM’S GARDEN HAS: Courgettes, silverbeet, New Zealand spinach, tomatoes, rhubarb, artichoke, grapes, radishes, strawberries, basil, sage, mint, rosemary, parsley, flat-leafed parsley, coriander, lemon balm, yellow pepper, chillis, potatoes, beans, edamame beans, rocket, and lettuce. One of the lettuce varieties is called ‘Drunken Woman’. The leaf is bright green and the edges are frilly […]
Posted in Fruits, Gardening, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Vegetables
Interlude
I have so many ideas, so here’s a little interlude for a planning session. With Christmas coming up, I have ideas for Christmas Cake blogs, I am working on one for a history of Christmas Cakes, and Mum will make a Christmas cake for the family. I want to make some strawberry and cream-cheese […]
Posted in Pot Luck (miscellaneous)
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