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Know Your Butcher
Today was grocery shopping day. Part of this includes going to my local butcher. His name is Mark. This is him looking a bit like a Scary Butcher for the camera today: Despite this photo, he really is...
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Free Food in the Christchurch Red Zone
Today’s sustainable adventure was a trip into one of Christchurch’s earthquake-devastated suburbs, Bexley, to forage for forgotten fruit and veges. I was in two minds about the project. I didn’t want...
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DIY Lemon Dusters
Today I made my own lemon dusters. Apparently they make the room smell amazing, which means they may encourage me to actually dust. Also: No stupid packaging. No weird chemicals. Quicker than going to...
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Making the Most of a Warm Autumn Day
We’ve had a cracker weekend of sunshine. So the garlic went into a horse-poo prepared bed. This was horse poo we bought for .50c from the side of the road on the outskirts of Christchurch. Apparently...
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A New Mag on a Stormy Night
I found a new magazine tonight at the shop. After a gruelling day with a scratchy throat, ‘Green Ideas’ seems the right thing to relax to while I wait to see if it snows or just rains outside. For...
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Winter Basil Love
I was intrigued to see little baby basils growing in a pot in a friend’s kitchen last night. I assume that when I use the remains of my pesto in bottled pasta sauce in April, that it’s the last I smell...
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New Fruit
Today was the day I’d been dreaming about for weeks. The chance to try my first ever homegrown lime. After careful consideration, I decided to have it in a vodka tonic. An excellent decision. It was...
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The Little Things
Being a Sustainability Wench is not just about growing veges, preserving fruit, and buying second-hand. Sometimes it’s making positive decisions about the little things. I love coffee. Proper coffee....
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Best Ever Fish
Tonight was fish night. Not because I went to the shop and decided Tonight Was Fish Night, but because my sister gave me some blue cod yesterday. Use what you have in the fridge I say. Pan-fried fish...
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New Drink on the Block
To embrace my inner Hippy, I’ve started to drink apple cider vinegar and honey. There are supposedly loads of health benefits, which I’m too lazy to Google. The main reasons I drink it are: It’s really...
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Loving the Locals – You and Your Shops
Adele from Whare Many readers of this blog will have already identified that I am passionate about buying local. I strongly dislike going to malls to suffer through the Generic Shopping Experience. I...
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More Little Things – Loving the Paper
Throwing out paper with lovely blank spaces on it disturbs me. Sometimes we have no choice, and have to chuck out sensitive or confidential stuff. But there is paper I use at work and at home that I...
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Beautiful Easy Red Onion Relish
Last night I found a bag of red onions that were starting to go a little fuzzy and ‘aged’. Time to chop them up and preserve what I could. I was limited in my ingredients (had forgotten to buy brown...
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Leftover Mashed Spud Deliciousness
Next time you make mashed spud, I recommend making extra just so you can cook this up the next day. Brilliant at any time of the day (or night). Plus it’s cheap, easy, and uses up leftovers instead of...
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Homemade Yoghurt Part 1
Over the past week, I’ve slowly developed the sore throat, headaches and tiredness that comes with the winter months. Now’s the time it becomes harder to be the good Sustainable Wench. I feel like...
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Homemade Yoghurt Part 2
Yesterday I set the wheels in motion to test our new yoghurt maker. This morning we got to test the results. Very much a big thumbs up from everyone, even the picky 3-year old. It was creamy and...
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Christchurch-Style Pumpkin and Choc Muffins
Last night I mashed up a whole lot of extra pumpkin with dinner, so I could make these pumpkin and choc muffins today. I’m not the biggest pumpkin fan, so need to find interesting ways to cook the ones...
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Knitting for the Love of Coffee
I started knitting yesterday. It’s been awhile. I had some knowledge of knitting when I was about 10 years old. I tried again a number of years ago, but without the knowledge of how to bind off, it...
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Using Up ALL of the Apples
My friend Kàren looked out my kitchen window the other day and noticed the ‘rustic’ display of windfall apples in our backyard from the tree next door. We’ve just had considerable rain which has really...
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One-Bowl Easy Chocolate Brownies
Time to fill the biscuit tin again. I tweaked this from the Chelsea Sugar website. It’s pretty delicious. It’s also really unhealthy, so eat it with a side salad to cancel out the calories. In a bowl,...
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