I said I would get back to the olives so here I am.

The recipe I used is the same as this one, ours was from the plant tag on the tree. You can click on the recipe above to make it easier to read. I have discovered that the most important aspect of the process is the slitting of the olives as that allows the bitterness to…

I think of Popeye when I think of olive oil!

Not that we are likely to be producing any olive oil but we have managed to harvest some olives from our little olive tree. I wrote previously about how we needed to net the tree to protect it from the parrots. This is our harvest. Not a great deal, about 180 olives or enough to…

Bread and Butter Cucumbers

Our garden is giving us some produce and so I am making full use of it. My husband had planted some cucumber plants in the parterre and they have proven to be bountiful. I have made several jars of bread and butter cucumbers. The cucumbers are soaked overnight and then rinsed the next day before…

A bit of a pickle!

We have a tree in our garden and this particular tree produces heaps of tiny limes.  When I say tiny I really mean tiny. To get some idea of the size I have taken a photo comparing it with a matchbox. If you wanted to make a daiquiri with these limes you would need about…