Potato salad vegan style

I recently got given a heap of potatoes from my neighbour this combined with my overload of spring onions,garlic chives, red capsicums, cherry tomatoes and rocket in my garden at the moment lead me to the perfect baked potato salad dish, so yummy i have to share with you!

4 - 5 potatoes
1 onion
3 - 4 cloves of garlic
Put ingredients into a roasting tray, chop the onion in half, don't peel the garlic,  chop potatoes into bite size pieces. Dribble a little olive oil over vegetables and roast until soft.

Dressing:
apple cider vinegar - dash, more or less to taste
olive oil - aprox 1/3 of a cup (more if mixture too thick)
garlic chives, small bunch
spring onions, 1 or to taste
roast onion
roast garlic
dash of salt
parsley, handful
chives, small bunch

Blend all ingredients together with a hand blender.

When potatoes are roasted and have cooled, add 1 red capsicum finely chopped, garlic chives finely chopped, spring onions finely chopped, add dressing and stir through well.

Place dressed salad in a serving bowl.
I then semi squashed the potato salad into the middle of the bowl and put rocket and cherry tomatoes around the outside, drizzle a little dressing on the rocket and serve.
Alternatively you could toss the rocket and cherry tomatoes through the potato and then serve.
Enjoy!!

Pineapples

I have always wondered how pineapples grew."Just plant the tops and in a few years you will grow another" someone once told me, so i began planting every pineapple top i could and sure enough, true to word, a few have started producing babies!

They need sun, water and a little food and a bit of time and true to what i thought was rumour they do produce!

The pineapple starts forming in the middle of the plant when the plant reaches a good size, slowly, slowly it will start to form and looks just like a pineapple only super mini!

It has a beautiful purple flower that appears with each developing spike on the skin, as the flower dies the spike develops and hardens.

The pineapple will slowly then grow bigger and bigger until it till it is ready for harvest.

Don't forget to plant the top of your newly grown pineapple so the cycle continues!!

Happy gardening!! 

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Artichokes in flower

Normally i am so onto my artichokes as soon as they are ready and they never get to the flowering stage. I was however away for Christmas this year and it was just at the time my artichokes were starting to bud, this one snuck past the crew who were looking after my garden .....what a beautiful surprise to see one actually  in flower, they are amazing!!

Check out the pics!!