Who Can be Cross With Winter?

Really, who can be cross with winter, when it serves up super huge spinachy silver beet like this. Heaps of it. And it's not tough and gnarly. It's tender, super-green tasting, and just the thing for putting in the Thai curry for dinner tonight.

Full disclosure: this spinach was stolen from the garden next door. But I am 100% sure it grew from seeds blown over from my garden, so it's not exactly theft. Surely.

I have a few recipes for Thai curry, and they usually involve fish. I did buy fish for tonight's curry, but the vegetables all looked so content together I didn't want to strain their relationship by throwing another species into the mix. So the fish is in the freezer waiting for another curry.

Here's a basic Thai curry recipe which I cooked with last year's eggplant harvest. Be warned, it calls for store bought curry paste, which I thoroughly embrace as god's gift to the home cook.

And here's one for when you have a bit more time and energy. This is one of the earliest recipes on the blog, and still one of the stars.

In both cases, feel free to throw the fish in the freezer and and just use veges.

Just so you know I'm not reduced to stealing veges from the neighbours... this is what I harvested while weeding on the weekend. In among the undergrowth I found beets, carrots, fennel, leeks, sorrel, and parsley for the universe.

It's so inspiring to see what happens when you sprinkle a few seeds in the ground and let nature work the magic.