primal cavewife

• Heat coconut oil or butter in a frying pan. Sautee the onions and garlic for a couple minutes then add the mince and cook until brown.
• Stir in the carrot, mushroom, cabbage and pine nuts and let it cook through.
• Add the sweet chilli sauce and salt and pepper to flavour.
• Separate the lettuce leaves - try to keep them as cups. Serve

• Put everything in a pot and bring to boil.
• Simmer for about half an hour or until the vegetables are soft.
• Blend everything in a blender and serve.

• Pluck any stem out, wash the leaves and pat them dry.
• Drizzle some oil and sprinkle the salt on top.
• Mix the leaves together and place them in the dehydrator at 35C for about 5 hours or until they get brittle.

The parsley is growing huge. I've been using it to cook our prawns for surf and turf, cauliflower mash and even juicing it!

Chilli is riping slowly...

Capsicum was bought as a seedling so it's coming along nice and slow. We were told that they don't grow in winter, but it's starting to flower so we'll see how that goes.

The basil plants are not huge, but the leaves definitely are. Whenever I pluck them to bring back to the house, I always think I am holding store-bought spinach... Like parsley, chives and oregano, I use it for surf and turf, cauliflower mash and juicing.

Carrots... Don't know how they are going since it's all underground. But the leaves are growing really well.

Oregano is growing bigger and bigger and bigger... Also used in surf and turf, cauliflower mash and juicing.

This spinach plant is my pride and joy! The leaves grow as big as my hand! A couple nights a week I would pluck about 6 leaves, wash them and place 3 on each plate and serve our surf and turf, cauliflower mash and baked sweet potato on it to give it some juice and flavour!

Red cabbage leaves are growing so big, it probably would have been a good idea to grow them further apart.

Broccolis are also growing bigger every day!

Cauliflower is getting big though not as big as the cabbage or broccoli... they're getting there!

The sweet potato that my boyfriend just dumped in the backyard. Hopefully we'll get more sweet potatoes... not sure how that works.

Our kale looks small, but that's because you don't know how much trauma it's been through! The snails have been getting into them for weeks... must have known how good they are for you. And for a while we were left with stems and no leaves! But as you can see, it is recovering much better now with luscious leaves. I am confident we'll be able to harvest it as often as we do the spinach soon! Can't wait!

• Preheat the oven to 175C. Fry the onions in the oil over medium heat until golden brown.
• Add the cumin powder and turmeric. Fry for two minutes stirring the whole time and then add the lemon juice, salt and pepper.
• Crumble the ground meat into a pan and cook over medium-low heat until mostly done.
• Mix the meat, cabbage, onion mix and fruit with 1 egg. Pack into a casserole dish and sprinkle with the crushed bay leaves.
• Mix the almond meal with the remaining egg. Spread the mix out on top of the meat to make a thin almond crust.
• Bake uncovered for about 30 minutes.