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• Wash the vegetables and chop up the capsicum. Place the vegetables in a bowl and sprinkle the capsicum on top.
• In a saucepan, boil the eggs for about 5 minutes in boiling water. Once cooked, cool them in a bowl of cold water.
• In a frying pan, grease it with coconut oil and fry the bacon on medium-high heat.
• Once the bacon pieces are crispy, put the them on top of the vegetables and drizzle the bacon fat on top like you would a dressing.
• Shell the eggs and slice them and place them in the salad bowl.
• Salt and pepper to taste. Add from herbs if you want.
   

Say hello to our little rocket plant...

and our baby rosemary plant!

One of our broccoli plants is finally growing a little broccoli head! It's probably taking such a long time because they are not getting enough space. Oh well they will get there... just a matter of time.

This beautiful tiny strawberry plant is one of our latest addition to the vege patch family. I've been wanting to get a strawberry plant for a while but the first time we went and bought all these plants and ran out of money so we had to forgo it. Second time, both Bunnings we went to, ran out of them. Seems like third time's the charm!!

Next up is this beautiful aloe vera plant. This is another plant I've been wanting to get for a while. I get tanned very easily, so I don't get sunburnt very often. My boyfriend on the other hand needs a fair amount of sunscreen when we go to the beach in summer and sometimes if he forgets he would get burnt. Applying aloe vera onto burnt areas soothes the skin. Taking the juice internally is also very good. So once the plant gets bigger we are going to pluck a few and juice it!

Last but not least, a lavender plant. I was going to say that it doesn't really fit in the vege patch because it's not edible... but you can make lavender tea! That is an exciting thought! With our food dehydrator, I can not only make potpourri but also lavender tea! And who knows, maybe a bit more googling and I'll find more cool things to do with my lavender! Just like I found out I could use cauliflower and broccoli leaves to juice and make chips! Going to pluck some leaves once I get home since they are overtaking the vege patch.


As you can see, our capsicum plants are growing quite well. Capsicums are finally sprouting! The seedlings we bought are a mix of the long and bulb ones. So hopefully they will give us some red, green and yellow capsicums of different shapes and sizes!

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!

Ingredients:
Marinade
1.5 kg chicken thigh, diced
1/2 cup coconut cream
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp garam masala
1/4 tsp coriander powder
1/4 tsp cumin powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
salt
pepper

Curry
2 tbsp butter
1 onion, chopped
dash of ground ginger
5 garlic cloves, minced
1 capsicum, sliced
5 tomatoes, chopped
1 can coconut cream
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp coriander powder
salt
pepper

• Marinate chicken with coconut cream and spices in a large bowl and set aside.
• Melt butter on frying pan on medium heat and add onions and cook until golden brown.
• Add ginger and garlic and cook for a few minutes.
• Add spices and cook for a couple minutes.
• Add the chicken mix and cook through.
• Add capsicum and tomatoes and simmer for 12-15 minutes.
• Add the coconut cream and simmer for a couple minutes.