Fruits of our Garden

We have just spent another week in Sydney with paint and scrubbing brushes in hand.  But the results are a house that looks like it did 18 months ago.  Now we face the dilemma of do we re rent or not?  Decisions, Decisions….

Happily back to Orange and I was really concerned that my garden would have been scolded by a week of sunshine and no rain.

How can it be that a country ruined by floods in some areas is dry as a bone in others. 

We had our share of water in and around this area and people have faced devastating effects from flood just down the road but even in Brisbane Maggie is at work, business as usual as she has been right through this period without much effect at all while just down to road people have lost their homes and much worse .  This is an amazing country indeed.

Needless to say our garden was dry but not gone.  Last night we had the produce of the garden on a plate, eggs, tomatoes, zucchini, basil, new potatoes all together in a Spanish Omelette, I think the only thing in it we didn’t produce was the olive oil…..

As a side before going to Sydney I had the issue of too many tomatoes on a vine and needed to take a few out.  What to do with green tomatoes…I’ve always been intrigued by the notion of fried green tomatoes.

I simply dipped them in polenta flour and fried in olive oil, served them with a salad of basil and red tomato and corn fritters.  It was all really tasty. 

The green tomatoes stayed really firm, tasted slightly tart but in a nice way, I’d recommend you give it a try.  Other than pickle the other way I know is to sauté with garlic and we may well try that version tonight.

Stay well and dry

Love Mary