Preserving for leaner times – Beetroot chutney

The video provides a more or less cooking by instinct way of creating Beetroot chutney, but you are encouraged to adapt the taste profile.

Base case dinners: Mid-week Popeye risotto

I think I’m going to write a “base case” recipe book. You start with one ingredient, and add to it what you can find in the cupboards. In this case, the base was spinach harvested from my own vegetable teepee. A teepee is what you get when you place a goal (a place to keep …

Taking time to take stock – Take a knee soldier!

Picture the scene, our space faring descendants have just crash landed on a hostile earth. And the earth has good reason to be hostile, because we are not very kind to it right now, are we? Anyway, in the movie “After Earth”, Cypher (played by Will Smith), instructs his son, Kitai (played by his son), …