Saturday, November 30, 2013

Potted herbs

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Potted herbs on an outdoor table are easy to look after and harvest.

My favourite garden herbs:
  • Thyme is a perennial and a pretty little plant. Tasty sprinkled on buttered, toasted bread but also in more complex things!
  • Oregano is also a perennial but needs to be trimmed back hard after flowering before returning in the spring flush with leaves. Lovely in pasta dishes and on pizza.
  • Chives and garlic chives are handy perennials when you want an onion or garlic hint without the full punch. Garlic chives are particularly easy to grow.
  • Italian parsley is an annual that grows so easily from seed that you need never buy fresh parsley again. Even a black thumb should be able to grow some! Cut some excess by the stalk, bundle with string to hang dry in a dark, warm place so that you will have some all year round. Better still, let some go to seed and save the seed to plant at intervals so you always have harvestable amounts.
  • Sweet Basil is annual you can grow from seed or buy a punnet full of seedlings. I prefer the punnet option because I want them NOW. Well soon anyway. The fragrance is divine. Freeze your excess leaves to add to pasta sauces and pestos over winter after your plants have died.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The feminine wiles of aubergines.

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My housemate grew one bootilicious aka callipygian (cal·li·pyg·i·an) aubergine last Summer.

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I bought this one because I couldn't resist sharing her with you!

Ladies we should not be ashamed of our - or our fresh produce's - sexy parts. It's empowering to see female artists reclaiming female genitalia back from the censors and celebrating it as something beautiful, sensual and intimate. I'm not sure I'd want to wear it around my neck but to each her own!

"...And For Dessert..." by Ron Adams

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"...And For Dessert..." by Ron Adams

o..O

Seen at Vinnie's Op Shop in July. Going by my internet research - I didn't buy or look inside this book - it's a recipe book for sensual play with food published in 1974.

Saturday, November 02, 2013

A banana a day.

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Current Australian Bananas advertisement on tram. 'Uranus Choc Log' [smirk 'n' giggles]

Bird Sticker at the Docklands, Melbourne

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C'est la vie...

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...That's life as a shy, colour blind, queer heart. It's like they channelled Freddie Mercury and completely missed the mark.

Ladies' t-shirt seen at Target.