It has been freezing outside today and I have spent most of it inside, cooking. About an hour ago, between showers, I took my basket out to pick a salad…. then I took some photos of what I had picked because it just oozes with vitality; so vivid are the colours, so shiny are the leaves, so crisp and so juicy that I just had to share it, even if only on a blog! (Actually most of it is for the local family I cook for on Tuesdays, but a little bit of everything is for me.)
I could go on about bad food choices, bad agriculture, bad governments, bad, bad, bad…. but I am too happy, looking forward to dinner, to think negative things. Nearly everything I picked today was self-sown, requiring no work from me. If only I could help people get to this point; if only they’d want to come to my “Cook with me from my garden” workshops where I could show them how easy, healthy, worthwhile and delicious it is to live this way.
 Sandra’s vegan rice balls..my way! |  Miners’ lettuce, radicchio, hakurei (Jap turnips), spring onion, mizuna |
 Today’s garden greens and eggs |  Such shiny parsley…. |
 Juicy, crisp, delicious fennel…. |  Winter chicory…. |
 …and scuplit, Asian greens, etc, all bouncing with vitality. |  Baked pasta, layered with garden veg, topped with home made yoghurt, today’s eggs plus cheese. |
 Tasmanian quinoa with snow peas, carrots, lime juice and herbs etc |  My famous sourdough bread …. that everyone comes to learn to make, in my workshops! |
Bon appetit!
ps. You should watch this 6 minute video, to see why I am sooooooo passionate about what I do. And no, I am NOT vegetarian but I only eat meat from animals that once lived in a paddock near me, on land I can see and cared for by people I know.
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