{"id":2694,"date":"2012-09-03T13:47:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T03:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2012-09-20T18:03:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T08:03:32","slug":"nasturtiums-strawberry-jam-with-ros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":"nasturtiums & strawberry jam with Ros"},"content":{"rendered":"

On air on bayfm 99.9 community radio Byron Bay on 3 September 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ros's nasturtiums looking pretty on a rosy wall - photo Ros Elliot<\/p><\/div>\n

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A big thank you to sister Ros for doing belly today.\u00a0 I think I’ll start colour – coding the bellysisters, last time Ros talked about lovely pink hued guavas, this time she shared her way with straberry jam.<\/p>\n

See this link if you would like to try<\/p>\n

http:\/\/allrecipes.com.au\/recipe\/1426\/simple-strawberry-jam.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ros also talked about nasturtiums, great things to grow if you have black thumbs.\u00a0 And all edible.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.herbalgardens.com\/archives\/articles-archive\/nasturtiums.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ros's veggy patch - photo Ros Elliot<\/p><\/div>\n

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A big thank you too to Diane Hart who was listening to Ros and emailed us to contribute her pickled nasturtium seeds recipe.<\/p>\n

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PICKLED NASTURTIUM SEEDS (FALSE CAPERS) – by Diane Hart
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I love capers in pasta, salads and sauces but, I don’t like the fact that they are imported and expensive. Capers are the buds of the caper bush (caper-berries are the fruit) and grows readily in Mediterranean countries – mostly out of rock walls. It has a very pretty flower, but you hardly ever find a plant with lots of buds and flowers as they are harvested by the locals and pickled in brine at home – it’s a fairly laborious process. They say that necessity is the mother of invention so I was very happy to come across this recipe for ‘false capers’ in a book of early Australian cooking that is over 150 years old. They don’t taste like capers – they taste like pickled nasturtium seeds, but they are surprisingly good and are a fantastic substitute.<\/p>\n

After the blossom falls off, pick the half-ripened (still green) nasturtium seeds. Continue picking as long as the seed crop continues. Drop them in a boiled, strained and cooled mixture of:<\/p>\n

500ml white wine vinegar<\/p>\n

2 teaspoons sea salt<\/p>\n

1 medium onion, thinly sliced<\/p>\n

1\/2 lemon, thinly sliced<\/p>\n

1 clove garlic, smashed<\/p>\n

10 peppercorns<\/p>\n

1\/2 teaspoon fennel\/dill seed<\/p>\n

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Simmer ingredients together in saucepan, cool and strain into sealable jar. Add nasturtium seeds. They will be ready to eat in a couple of weeks or so and will keep in the fridge for up to a year. They are ready to eat when they sink into the liquid. You can keep adding to the liquid pickle mix as you pick the seeds – how easy is that?<\/p>\n

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Check out Diane’s blog at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/growfoodslowfood.blogspot.com\/<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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On air on bayfm 99.9 community radio Byron Bay on 3 September 2012     A big thank you to sister Ros for doing belly today.\u00a0 I think I’ll start colour – coding the bellysisters, last time Ros talked about lovely pink hued guavas, this time she shared her way with straberry jam. See this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[287,72,212],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-show-posts","tag-nasturtiums","tag-pickles","tag-strawberry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belly.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}