I love this salad. The last time I made something similar to this it was with pears, walnuts and blue cheese and no mayo. Which for the record is very yum. *sidenote* The first Waldorf Salad came from the Waldorf Hotel in NYC back in 1893. Originally it only had apples, celery, and mayonnaise in it. Walnuts were added later, good thing too! The recipe up the top there is one I've made up based on the Waldorf salad but with more good bits in it. Enjoy!

I heart mushrooms...

I wrote this recipes for the Ceres Fair Food recipe page, which you can find here...

http://www.ceresfairfood.org.au/recipes/

A delicious do-it-yourself salad at the table.

Extra Curricular is put together in Auckland, New Zealand by Ellie Smith & friends. It is for and about people doing exciting side projects in their spare time.

For issue five Ruth, Rosie and I got together to contribute a tasty recipe. Recipe by Rosie, words by Ruth and photography by me.

A delicious do-it-yourself salad at the table.

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Pear & Rosemary Sauce

I've never done slow-roasted pork, so dinner tonight was just that! Six hour slow-roasted pork I might add. I used a Jamie Oliver recipe

click here.

I had intended to make apple sauce, but opted for pears over apples, simply because they were cheaper today. While making my sauce I decided to add rosemary from my garden to top it off. And it worked! Great combo for pork.

Hope you enjoy the recipe.

Homemade Fettuccine...

This is my first attempt at making pasta. The recipe above is written by Neil Perry.

Generally a basic pasta dough recipe is based about 100g of flour & 1 egg per person.

I actually ended up putting the eggs and flour in a food processor and blending it that way, as kneading it on the bench = too hard basket!(I may have used too much flour which would have made it difficult).

In the end, voila! This was last nights dinner...

(note the bottled cherry tomatoes in the pasta sauce, so yum)

Next time maybe pumpkin cannelloni from Martha Goes Green!

Muffins for Soup!

Here's a photo for mixture consistency ...

It never occurred to me to ditch the bread and have muffins with soup, but I'm told apparently it's not all that unusual!

Here's a recipe for some delicious savoury muffins that I photographed (and ate) on Sunday with some homemade tomato soup... very yum!

This recipe is written by Ruth Friedlander for Ceres Fair Food.

Check out the recipe here...

http://www.ceresfairfood.org.au/recipe/zucchini-polenta-and-parmesan-muffins/

Or more Ceres/Martha Goes Green recipes here...

http://www.ceresfairfood.org.au/recipes/

Fancy zucchini flowers.

It seems I have only blogged about food so far ... can't be a bad thing I'm sure. Everybody's got to eat! And at the moment everybody's talking about zucchini flowers! The Italians were the first to use them and these days stuff them with a soft cheese like ricotta, mascarpone or fresh goats cheese. The greeks stuff them with rice and the mexicans prefer them over zucchinis which they often cook in soups or used as a filling for quesadillas. All 'n all they're a bit fancy!