Category: Food

• Making Ravioli

  

  Yesterday Chicago John drove down from the city to help us make ravioli for the freezer. This is an old family tradition and he came armed with the filling and the flour, his rollers and molds. Everything we needed. My chickens supplied the eggs of course! One of the most important tips for the dough…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 2, 2017

  Food, Life, Photography, Recipes

  aubergine, country life, eggplant, gardening, pasta dough, ravioli, thebartolinikitchens, weather, what’s for dinner

• After Dusk

  

  I was making dinner last night (the creamy dill chicken in pasta with a butternut salad)  and hanging a yoghurt up to drain for the labneh today when I suddenly realised I had not taken any photos for you. So I pulled off my pinny grabbed the camera and walked out the door to get…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 7, 2016

  Farming, Food, Life, Photography, woman farmer

  after dusk, farmlife, marscapone, ricotta salata

• Fish and Chips

  

  Fish and Chips on the Beach. Nothing better on a beachy sunny day. Today we drive off into the country to set up the venue for Senior sons wedding. Lots to do yet! Life is good. Love your friend, celi        

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 22, 2015

  Food, Travel

  beach, fish and chips, lyall bay, new zealand, wellington

• The Omnivore’s Farm

  Things are starting to wind down on the farmy in some ways. And wind up in others. The bulk of the apples and tomatoes and vegetables are in jars and in the cellar. The pears and apples are next in the crusher, not quite yet though. I have a lot of picking to do yet.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 2, 2013

  Farming, Food, homesteading, Photography

  apple crumble, celi, gardens, lamb rissoles, pears, raising animals for meat, The kitchen’s garden

• The Last of September – What I learnt from the Challenge.

  For the last meal of the Home Grown September Challenge we had roast lamb slathered in a yogurt, lavender and garlic paste.  Roasted baby pumpkin, roasted beets, roasted shallots tossed in rosemary and hot butter and a huge green salad with an olive oil, cider vinegar and fresh rosemary dressing. All home grown. Today the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 1, 2013

  Farming, Food, homesteading, Photography

  cows and flies, peahen flying, sunrise, the september home grown challenge