Saturday, August 21, 2010

Cape gooseberry

Glorious day in SE Queensland. We spent several hours in the vegetable garden and collected our first harvest of cape gooseberries. Pulled out some radish plants that had got way to big. Planted some more carrot, beetroot,lettuce and moved the wire frames for tomatoes to a new spot. pH tested ok at about 6.5.

Dinner menu - jade perch fillets in batter
tatsoi leaves, pumpkin and spring onion
desert of stewed cape gooseberries and cream


The main ingredients are home grown

2 comments:

Revenant said...

Where's the recipe?

Tom said...

Hi Revenant - pop the berries out of the outer case and lightly boil with a little water. They don't need much cooking at all. We also eat them uncooked and find them quite sweet if really ripe.