Posts Tagged ‘anise myrtle’
Having your bush food garden and eating it too!
The bush food garden here at Peppermint Ridge Farm continues to thrive and we are enjoying watching all of the fruits fatten and the edible leaves glowing. The anise myrtle has a particular secret. If you eat the the new red leaves you will discover they taste like a soft sweet licorice lolly but without…
Read MoreFinger Limes and Mountain Pepper growing well at Peppermint Ridge
This new summer rain has given a great growth boost to our bush food plants. We will have a great crop of finger limes and mountain pepper and the new anise myrtle plants are growing fast in their pots. I have been experimenting with grinding up the fresh leaves of our native herbs with salt and…
Read MoreBush Food Cooking School Recipe: Native Creative Pickled Carrot
Native Creative Pickled Carrot Recipe Today we ran a new cooking school called an Asian Style Lunch with an Australian Twist. After a recent trip to Malaysia and Vietnam, I thought our lovely Australian Spices would fit perfectly with many Asian dishes – the lunch recipes are a result of that thinking. Here is a…
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