the weekend's gone again

And I have prickles in my fingers after pinching prickly pear fruit from the laneway. I am already planning to go and get more for jam. Such good colour and flavour inside that irritable skin. Suffer for your preserves. Fool.

I also got some early figs from the giant tree. It is laden with nearly ready nearly reachable fat figs. It made 3 jars. I wish I had an oven to bake some scones.

oranges & lemons

I meant to post this last week after returning from the hills. Michael's laden fruit trees. From which I have made orange and ginger marmelade, preserved lemons and lastly, a glazed lemon and poppy seed cake that is sitting helplessly on the kitchen bench right now...


On an unrelated note, pickled onions. My first ever pickled onions. I'm happy about them, though I haven't tried them on toast with grilled cheese just yet...