Category: Sustainability

Summers in Australia are hot hot hot and it’s a dry heat. Sorbet, ice cream and gelato are faves during the sweltering months and it’s easy with an ice cream maker. Especially in February after heading back to work and trying to fit in the beach time and summer activities. For the people in the northern hemisphere, it’s a different time of year but we all love a good gelato. 

My fave is the Ninja CREAMi Ice cream maker, check it out. It has other functions like for frozen yoghurt and milkshakes. I use the smoothie option, yummy. A good combo here is matcha powder, some plain ice cream and a little cream – omg. 

One of my fave recipes is coconut milk and honey. I put 5 egg yolks in it and a little cream to richer it up. 
In summer I sometimes throw in mango too. This machine is so strong I just chuck in all of the fruit and ingredients, freeze it (or not) and mix it up. For a smooth gelato texture, freeze and mix a few times to get the icicles out. 
Are you making your own gelato? Share your fave recipe in the comments. 

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Seaweed tea is an amazing fertiliser for your garden and has benefits also as a foliar spray, fertilising and protecting. The materials you need are readily available if you’re near the ocean and it’s quick to prepare. 

If you’d like to research the benefits yourself, check some of the seaweed fertiliser products on amazon or jump on Google and search. 

Gather your seaweed

Grab a bucket and hit the beach. The kelp type of seaweed works well but you can use anything. Throw it in the bucket after you’ve removed any sea creatures. 

Rinse your seaweed

Rinse off the seaweed with fresh water. You don’t have to, but the salt can be too much for some plants. 

Leave it in the water

Put your washed seaweed back into the bucket and fill it with fresh water. Place the lid back on but leave a small gap. Aerobic steeping works faster. Adding an air pump also speeds it up, but that’s not necessary. 

Mix your seaweed tea fertiliser

Your water will start to discolour pretty much immediately, but after 24 hours it’s steeped enough that you can extract some and use it on the garden. 

Put a small amount into a watering can and mix it to a ratio of 1 part tea to 9 of water (yes, my diagram below is wrong!). Try watering around the plants just a little to begin with. 

Repeat the process

You can keep the process going for ages. It will get stronger and stronger, so dilute it further as it ages. Test it out on your plants and see how they respond. I’ve found that berries love it!

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You might be the same with coffee, you try a heap of different flavours and brands to find the one you like. Eventually you get it down to a short list and then eventually, down to two or even find THE ONE! 

That brand or flavour that you just keep coming back to, you might keep trying a few different ones that you thought might be good. But then there’s this one that you rely on. For me and coffee beans, that’s this brand – Vittoria Coffee Beans, Latte. 

I don’t buy latte’s at cafes, but this brand of coffee beans suits me fine. Love the flavour and cream it produces in the machine. If you haven’t tried this flavour, give it a go. 

A good coffee is a memory maker. Let me know if the comments if you try these out. 

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