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Author: Dr Helen Tyzack
newtyzack@gmail.comMy blogsites
- Mainland Discoveries Records of my explorations of landscapes on mainland Australia
- Touching the Tarkine Record of my exploration of Tasmania’s Tarkine wilderness
- Walking the Derwent The record of my walk from the mouth to the source of Tasmania’s Derwent River
Tag Archives: Chard
RTBG Thursday 6th May 2021
Weeks have passed since my last posting to this blog, partly because arthritis has struck my hands and wrists from ‘too much weeding’!!!!! Alas. Incredibly disappointing, frustrating, and inconvenient. Thanks to all my readers who made contact to check I … Continue reading
Making my own ‘cups of soup’ mix
Based on the tip given to me, I have been drying the runts of home grown silver beet/chard etc; these are the final leaves after a summer of large leaves but all nutritious even though diminished in size. A large … Continue reading
Posted in Tasmania
Tagged besan flour, Chard, cups of soup, flat leaf parsley, homemade soup mix, onion, parsley, Silver beet
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Dinner ingredients
A couple of friends let me know they were excited; “Dinner ingredients – all grown by us. We are SO fortunate.” I could foresee the wonders of health in a pot and health on a plate. A wedge was cut … Continue reading
Posted in Tasmania
Tagged carrot, Chard, coloured chard, ginger, potatoes, pumpkin, scarlet runner beans, squash, vegetables, zuchinni
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Was I nettled? No
I was bound to collect weeds. I had a weed soup to make. Most of my fellow Food Garden volunteers were nervous about consuming weeds; ‘are they okay to eat’, was the frequent question. And some are. But which is … Continue reading
Posted in Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Tasmania
Tagged Chard, Chives, chives flowering head, Food Garden, Garlic, nettles, olive oil, onion, Onion Weed, potato, potato weed, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, RTBG, Silverbeet, sorrel, soup, stinging nettles, vegetable stock, weed, weed soup
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Tasmanian Discoveries 