Organic Carrot Cake

250 g melted butter

1 cup organic brown sugar

3 organic eggs

2 tsp organic vanilla

grated rind of one organic lemon

2 1/3 cups organic wholemeal plain flour

1/3 tsp himalayan sea salt

1/3 tsp bicarb soda

2 tsp baking powder

2/3 tsp mixed spice

1 1/3 tsp organic cinnamon

2 cups packed, finely shredded organic carrot, soaked in juice of lemon

Beat sugar and butter, then add eggs one at a time, and vanilla and lemon rind, beat until light in colour. Then add flour and carrot alternating beginning and ending with flour, add rest of ingredients. Mix to combine.

Pour into a lineed cake tin and bake for 45-50(or until skewer comes out clean) at 160-180.

Enjoy

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Our new website

Hey y'all, you have to come and check out our new website, full of great recipes, easy shopping and the freshest local organic foods, the majority of which are coming straight from the farm.

Today we included some organic purple heirloom carrots in the boxes, this what all carrots were like until the 1500's, high in antioxidants, these are touted as a superfood.

The new website development means that we will be posting more recipes onto that site, with occasional recipe posts here. I would love to use this blogging platform to explore the wide world of food, customs, traditions, tastes, nutrition and everything else that accompanies food on this journey we call life.

Love to hear your thoughts, experiences and all things food too....

This cold weather makes me wonder what warmth ever looked like, or how I could ever want to eat watermelon again....I find myself craving warm soups, anything substantial, which is a far cry from my usual fare of raw foods. Its at this time of year that warming soups and cooked foods make their way into my diet. 30% is my rule of thumb, still feel good and nourished.

So what's happening in your kitchen, what do you feel like eating, what do you want that you feel you shouldn't have. Our relationship with food is such an interesting topic to delve into, it is actually consuming (pardon the pun), and as much as we deny it, it has a place in every encounter we have, food is always at the centre of everything (and anything in my world anyway). And rightly so, food is what keeps us alive, keeps us warm, keeps our blood pumping and in alot of ways keeps us happy. I have written before about putting love into food, but sometimes I feel like food puts love in me. There is nothing like having a delicious meal, being so satisfied with every mouthful and so content, but yet yearning for more. That is love, mmm that is life

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Organic Empire: Bircher Muesli

Organic Empire: Bircher Muesli

Bircher Muesli

Bircher muesli is a great way to start the day, raw oats, dried fruit, soaked overnight. Tastes so good the kids will want it for dessert and jam packed full of nutrients to keep them and you in optimum health. Great source of raw carbohydrates, protein and goodness.

BIRCHER MUESLI

½ cup organic rolled oats

¼ cup freshly pressed organic apple juice

¼ cup organic yoghurt (sugar free is best)

handful organic currants or sultanas

a sprinkling of organic ground cinnamon

1/4 Organic apple, grated (skin on) to serve or banana

Seasonal berries and chopped almonds.

Method:
Combine the rolled oats, juice, currants or sultanas, and cinnamon in a large bowl and stir together. Chill overnight.

To serve, stir in the grated apple and yoghurt, put into a bowl and garnish with berries and crispy almonds

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Whats in season, May

apples

banana,

cumquat,

custard apple,

feijoa,

grapes

kiwifruit,

lemons,

limes,

mandarin - imperial,

melon - champagne,

nuts - chestnut - hazelnut - peanut - walnut,

pears - howell - josephine - packham - red sensation - williams,

persimmon,

quince,

rhubarb.

asian greens , bok choy, - choy sum - gai laan - wonga bok,

avocados - fuerte - sharwill,

beetroot,

broccoli,

brussels sprout,

cabbage,

carrots,

cauliflower,

celeriac,

celery,

daikon,

eggplant,

fennel,

garlic,

ginger,

horseradish,

leeks,

lettuce,

mushrooms - wild - field - pine - slippery jacks,

okra,

olives,

onions - brown - spring,

parsnip,

peas,

potato,

pumpkin,

shallots,

silverbeet,

spinach,

squash,

swede,

sweet potato,

taro,

tomato,

turnip,

witlof,

zucchini.

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Raw Oat biscuits

In commemoration of our fallen diggers, a raw version of the traditional Anzac biscuit, packed with nutrition and so easy to make

1 cup organic raw oats

1 teaspoon organic ground cinnamon

1/2 cup firmly packed organic pitted Medjool dates

1/2 cup organic sultanas

Favorite topping such as chopped, nuts, coconut (optional).

Combine the oats and cinnamon in the food processor and process into small pieces. Add the dates and process to mix well. Add the sultanas and your favorite topping and pulse to mix.

Press about 3 tablespoons of the dough into cookie cutters on a plate lined with baking paper, or roll the dough into ball and flatten.

You can add a tiny bit of molasses for some anzac flavour

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