Nourish Me

green eggs...(but no ham)

This morning Bhakthi and I talked food and children's literature on 3RRR FM, and it was, I have to say, a lot of fun. Roald Dahl (he is ALL about food, Dahl, with a bit of class-busting thrown in for good measure), Kenneth Grahame and Dr Seuss. I want - very much - to share the recipe I gave for the simple, basil-wrapped Seuss-ian Green Eggs (minus, of course, the ham) but there are no photos to share today...not yet. Such is the way things work when one remains devoted to film, so, I promise to share the recipe in the coming days...or week...

(update: Cindy and Michael (guys, thank YOU!) from Where's the Beef have found the broadcast online which you can listen to here.)   

Instead, here's what I've been eating (on our own bread, most days) for breakfast over summer: tahini, barley miso and cucumber. WHAT a combo. 

I'll be back with Bhakthi on the 21st when we'll be talking about more adult things, so stay tuned.  

Happy 2013 peoples! Hope it's working out for you thus far.

 

 

Blueberries

Thus far, it's been a summer of discovery.

A mammoth session of whipper-snippering in late spring revealed, among other things, two straggly little bushes, planted deliberately, I was sure, side by side. To fertilise one another. As you do. Both looked promising, and I had a hunch about what they were, but, like much of the garden, they'd been let slide.

By mid-January, I'm slipping out each morning, boots on to wade through the flood-drenched bog they live in, enamelled white dish in hand, and picking blueberries for our breakfast. Thrilled.

Blue and white

Breakfast. Blueberries, warmed in soy milk with a smidgen of ground cardamom. Poured over home-made muesli and a tiny apple, grated. Skin 'n all.

A blue and white bowl; a blue and white tea towel.

The light is so much easier to work with when the days, thankfully, lengthen.