Saturday, June 1, 2013

Seriously Shareable

I promised to share the recipe for the dip I made for today's morning tea at the garden.
So here it is,  Rosemary Carrot and White Bean Dip ....  Enjoy!




Ingredients
1 can cannellini, or butter beans
4  peeled and roughly chopped carrots
2 cloves garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
½ teaspoon sea salt
2-inch sprig rosemary (broken up a bit)
1 teaspoon lemon zest
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemary
½  teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon Sriracha chilli sauce ( or other hot sweet chilli sauce)

Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 200°C.  Prepare a medium size baking dish.
2. Rinse beans and set aside to drain.
3. Steam carrots for 3 minutes.
4. Place carrots, olive oil, sea salt and garlic in baking dish and stir to coat. Add drained beans and rosemary sprigs, mixing the sprigs under the veggies a bit.  Place in oven and roast for 20 minutes Remove from oven and set aside to cool for 10 minutes.
4. After cooling period, remove rosemary sprigs and place roasted carrot/bean mixture along with all other ingredients in the bowl of a food processor. Puree until very smooth. If mixture is too thick, add more water, until you reach a spreadable consistency.

Serve at room temperature with crackers and/or fresh veggies.


Thursday, May 23, 2013

Join us in June

Many thanks to Maria and Denise who promoted the garden at the recent Volunteers Expo. We have made some valuable contacts.
There is plenty of work to keep members warm as the weather cools....Our schedule of events throughout June is as follows.

Saturday Morning Working Bees: 1st, 8th, 15th and 29th June from 9.00 am, bring some morning tea or a gold coin donation.      Note no working bee on the 22nd June

Wednesday Working Bees: Mornings of 12th and 26th June from 9.30 am.

Wednesday Garden Meetings: 5th and 19th June at 4.30 pm.

Governance Members Meeting:  26th June at 5.30 pm.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Meeting Up In May

Thanks to all of you who keep our garden going, every little bit helps.

The schedule of formal gatherings at the garden throughout May is as follows.....

Saturday Morning Working Bees: 4th , 11th and 18th May from 9.00 am, bring some morning tea or a gold coin donation.      On 4th May in the afternoon, share pizza with us for a gold coin donation.

Wednesday Working Bees: Mornings of 1st and 15th and 29th May from 9.30 am.

Wednesday Garden Meetings: 8th and 22nd May at 4.30 pm.

Governance Members Meeting:  15th May at 5.30 pm.

See You Soon!

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

April's Entertainment


Kiama Community Garden is fund-raising with the Entertainment book.The new edition can be viewed at the garden from Saturday April 6, We'll also be gardening until about midday, and sharing morning tea together! Use this link to preview the Sth Coast Entertainment book : http://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/home
To purchase, the link to our order page is: https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/2811g54


Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Gardening in April

We are planting seedlings of beetroot, lettuce, sugarloaf cabbage, dill, peas and many more. At the moment there are butter beans and green beans galore to be harvested. We have trimmed the bana grass to let in more sun.

Meetings for April

Saturday morning working bees - 13th and 20th April with morning tea mid morning.

Wednesday working bees - 3rd and 17th April from 9:30am or come along at a time that you prefer.

Wednesday general meetings - 10th and 24th April at 4:30pm

Governance meeting- 17th April at 5:30pm.



Look forward to seeing you soon . . . 

A New Crop of Authors

At last there will be far fewer reasons for our blog being out of date.

Welcome to Julie, Maria and Gabriella our newest enthusiastic bloggers.

Autumn is a great time for gardening and  there will be plenty of activity at the garden over the next couple of months as fallow beds are planted  and existing plantings maintained.

Please come and help us refresh the garden over the weeks ahead.


The seedlings have hardened off and are ready to go!