"Looking up, she showed him quite a young face, but one whose bloom and promise were swept all away, as if the haggard winter should unnaturally kill the spring" - Charles Dickens
Since I can't source the evening meal from the garden, I thought I'd turn the evening meal into a garden! By making a completely edible garden, right down to the soil!
The weather outside is not fun, but now my food is :)
FIRST DAY OF WINTER!!!
What do you use??
I used:
- Savoury cake (base)
- brown bread
- Alpha and bean sprout salad
- Humus
- Sesame seeds
- Pumpkin seeds
- Cherry tomato
- Raddish
- Toothpicks
Base sediment
I started off with a savoury cake base of feta and date. Baked in a square slice/loaf tin.
Savouty cake?! you may ask, but it is surprisingly good. The recipe I used can be found here - but I swapped out the prunes for dates, as I had some in the cupboard.
Four walls
Now, some may adhere to the gingerbread shed, others the cookie wall, but me, I like a nice toasted exterior. Bread was my material of choice. A nice strong brown bread.
A landscapers dream
Once the shed was in I began the gardening! I cut out a trench for the vege patch, I used a mini square cookie cutter dig up the unwanted sediment.
Once the garden has been loveingly planted and pruned it was time to lay the grassy turf.