Macadamia nuts: 3 ways

Some ideas to use your macadamias.

Mango, papaya and watermelon salad

Tom Kime says he was first served this vibrant fruit salad in south Vietnam. He loved the combination of spicy ginger, cooling mint, mouth-tingling citrus and sweet ripe tropical fruit.

Mangoes: 3 more ways

More ways to use mango.

Meet: Alex Elliott-Howery

Meet Alex Elliott-Howery, pickler and community builder.To say that Alex Elliott-Howery and her husband James Grant have a café doesn’t begin to tell the story. Cornersmith is not just a café, but a pickling and preserving business and school, and a trading hub for the produce gardeners of Marrickville.

Meet: Matt Purbrick, village life enthusiast

The happiest healthiest people in the world are those who live in simple agricultural communities where life is shared. It’s a way of life that Matt Purbrick and his partner Lentil enjoy in regional Victoria and extoll through their business, Grown and Gathered.

Melon sago with soy milk

Chewy pearls of sago and sweet balls of melon floating in a sweetened sea of soy milk makes for a fresh and easy summer dessert.

Melon: 3 ways

More of our favourite melon recipes.

Mulberries: 3 ways

Mulberries flooding in to the kitchen? Here are some quick and tasty ways to use them.

Olives: 3 ways

Olive glut? Make the most from your harvest with 3 simple ideas.

Orange and whisky self-saucing pudding

What’s not to love about a self-saucing pudding? There’s the magic trick of pouring liquid over batter and having it transform, a short time later, to become a thick, luscious sauce under a fluffy, crisp-topped cake.

Oranges: 3 ways

Glut of oranges? Here's some ways to churn through your bounty.

Papaya and coconut muffins

Here’s a healthy morning tea treat or after-school snack. Muffins with the sweet goodness of fresh papaya. It’s too easy!

Passionfruit sponge

A summery afternoon tea treat to make your grandmother proud.

Passionfruit: 3 ways

Pasta alla norma

 This classic Sicilian vegetarian pasta celebrates the best of late summer’s vegetable harvest. 

Pasta with asparagus and peas

Quite simply this is spring's freshest flavours on a plate!

Pineapple: 3 more ways

Bumper pineapple harvest? Here's 3 simple recipes.

Plum clafoutis

This easy batter pudding, fragrant with late-summer fruit, is delicious warm from the oven, and any leftovers are just as good served cold for a breakfast treat with a dollop of thick yoghurt.

Plums: 3 more ways

Plum tree loaded? Here are our favourite plum recipes.

Pumpkin soup with sherry chantilly

This sweet and fragrant soup has a creamy texture courtesy of potato, and is topped with the luxurious surprise of whipped cream flavoured with cream sherry!

Roasted cauliflower salad

Match our cauliflower salad with roast chicken or barbecued lamb. This will become a winter stalwart - trust us - you have NEVER tasted cauliflower this good!

Salad greens: 3 ways

Salad greens going gang-busters? This is how we eat them.

Spiced lamb on spring greens

Juicy lamb backstraps, rolled in fragrant cumin, barbecued, and sliced over fresh salad. It’s a celebration of spring!

Strawberries: 3 ways

Bumper strawberry plot? This is how we like to eat them!

Strawberry ice cream

The only thing better than fresh strawberries with cream is fresh strawberries turned into ice cream.

Summer pudding

This classic pudding is a simply delicious taste of summer. This is the kind of recipe that reminds us how inventive the cooks of previous generations were in turning leftovers into dinner or dessert, especially bread. 

Sweetcorn: 3 ways

Our recipes to use up that homegrown sweetcorn.

Tomatoes

Wherever you live it’s time to think tomatoes: plan for a summer crop in cool areas, and grow now in warm areas.

Tomatoes al horno

Greg Duncan Powell includes this recipe for tasty baked tomatoes in his book on all things edible in the morning, ‘Breakfast: Food worth getting out of bed for’. 

Tomatoes: 3 ways

Some more recipes for ripe homegrown tomatoes.

Triple Ginger Loaf

Jo Wright is a keen baker (she’s notched up several wins the Royal Easter Show for her cakes!) an avid gardener, a treasured member of Garden Clinic, and for the last three years, has been the trusted baker of goodies for our garden classes. She wowed attendees at our recent Bees and Butterflies workshop with this delicious ginger cake. As we said our goodbyes everyone begged for the recipe. So here it is. Thanks for sharing it Jo!