Serpent Munchies
27/04/2007 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIzzie is being lazy again today. So much house elf gossip and so little posted. Instead, been procrastinating by sending some long overdue owls and confirming this year's presence in The Green Room at Bridgetown for the annual garden festival in the first weekend of November.
Also supposed to be ordering some supplies for the Lair online. All our mulch is now gone. Spent Wednesday afternoon sorting that out. A bit miffed that it did not even cover one fifth of the garden out the back.
Decided that it's best to get the ground all covered with mulch and straw and rotting away happily before then deciding where to put the central circle of our design and the paths around it. There will have to be slight deviations due to the presence of an orange and a macadamia tree in awkward locations.
Got two weeks holidays at the end of the month and determined to have made a decent bit of progress by then.
Thursday took the day off gardening to go on our usual slinking about Fremantle. Deviated to a yuppie grocery store that had all sorts of delicacies with price tags to match. But they did have cheap baby potatoes which are now stting outside and will be sunbathing for the next few days. Once they start sprouting, will be off to the pumpkin patch out the back.
Next stop was The Juicy Beetroot Cafe which is not the prettiest cafe but certainly the bestest when it comes to real food. Everything is made on site including the cakes and slices. Problem is that the main meals and salads are so so good that there's just not room to try cakes too.
This week, they had Alu Gobi which is an Indian dish made with potatoes, cauliflower and lots of tumeric. Totally tasty. The salads are also scrummy. The only thing nicer than a big bowl half filled with cauliflower curry, dhal and brown rice is their brown rice salad with broccoli, tofu and seaweed. They also use real cold pressed virgin olive oil in the pasta salad too. Everything tastes so real
Strange - got to thinking - cannot explain the Izzie's irrational addiction to lentils and rice but only just recently noticed that both this place and our other haunt - Analakshmi - apart from the drinks - tea, coffee and chai - are almost totally vegan. It's a good sign when it takes that long to realise because the food is so damned tasty that you don't even notice the lack of milk, eggs or cheese.
Today, dropped into our favorite old Greek grocery store to get lots and lots of beans. Not for eating but planting. Was especially glad to see that they even got lupins. Hoping that these are the very same buggers used to make that most magnificent mulch so that we will be able to grow our own.
Also got sesame, coriander, cumin and caraway seeds. No fennel to be found. Got it in our head that another one of the Izzie addictions - dukkah - the ingredients are so cheap that there's no reason not to mix our own rather than pay exorbitant prices for little jars of the stuff. It's fairly expensive even if you don't go for the totally overpackaged foodie versions of the stuff but the basic home brand varieties
Will be most interesting to see which of those batches of seeds will sprout and grow. It is particularly nice finally being almost self sufficient in basil which the Iz uses like the way normal folk use lettuce. All previous attempts at growing the stuff either did not sprout or kept the snails well fed but with nothing left for the Izzie
Also supposed to be ordering some supplies for the Lair online. All our mulch is now gone. Spent Wednesday afternoon sorting that out. A bit miffed that it did not even cover one fifth of the garden out the back.
Decided that it's best to get the ground all covered with mulch and straw and rotting away happily before then deciding where to put the central circle of our design and the paths around it. There will have to be slight deviations due to the presence of an orange and a macadamia tree in awkward locations.
Got two weeks holidays at the end of the month and determined to have made a decent bit of progress by then.
Thursday took the day off gardening to go on our usual slinking about Fremantle. Deviated to a yuppie grocery store that had all sorts of delicacies with price tags to match. But they did have cheap baby potatoes which are now stting outside and will be sunbathing for the next few days. Once they start sprouting, will be off to the pumpkin patch out the back.
Next stop was The Juicy Beetroot Cafe which is not the prettiest cafe but certainly the bestest when it comes to real food. Everything is made on site including the cakes and slices. Problem is that the main meals and salads are so so good that there's just not room to try cakes too.
This week, they had Alu Gobi which is an Indian dish made with potatoes, cauliflower and lots of tumeric. Totally tasty. The salads are also scrummy. The only thing nicer than a big bowl half filled with cauliflower curry, dhal and brown rice is their brown rice salad with broccoli, tofu and seaweed. They also use real cold pressed virgin olive oil in the pasta salad too. Everything tastes so real
Strange - got to thinking - cannot explain the Izzie's irrational addiction to lentils and rice but only just recently noticed that both this place and our other haunt - Analakshmi - apart from the drinks - tea, coffee and chai - are almost totally vegan. It's a good sign when it takes that long to realise because the food is so damned tasty that you don't even notice the lack of milk, eggs or cheese.
Today, dropped into our favorite old Greek grocery store to get lots and lots of beans. Not for eating but planting. Was especially glad to see that they even got lupins. Hoping that these are the very same buggers used to make that most magnificent mulch so that we will be able to grow our own.
Also got sesame, coriander, cumin and caraway seeds. No fennel to be found. Got it in our head that another one of the Izzie addictions - dukkah - the ingredients are so cheap that there's no reason not to mix our own rather than pay exorbitant prices for little jars of the stuff. It's fairly expensive even if you don't go for the totally overpackaged foodie versions of the stuff but the basic home brand varieties
Will be most interesting to see which of those batches of seeds will sprout and grow. It is particularly nice finally being almost self sufficient in basil which the Iz uses like the way normal folk use lettuce. All previous attempts at growing the stuff either did not sprout or kept the snails well fed but with nothing left for the Izzie
