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nicola’s calendar + a giveaway

October 13, 2014

My friend Nicola is a clever woman: she makes beautiful food and writes about it over on her blog Homegrown Kitchen.

Her latest project is the 2015 food calendar. Printed on lovely thick paper, every month features a seasonal recipe, as well space for kitchen and garden notes (I love this feature.) Recipes I'll try immediately include the sourdough thin-crust pizza, plum and hazelnut cake and three-cheese quiche. Oh okay, I'll have to make all of the recipes.

The calendar even has an extra month (Dec 2014) with a recipe that is perfect for Christmas gifts: handmade salted caramels. Yes. I will be making and eating these. (You can also watch a sweet video about them.)

I reckon this calendar would make a perfect Christmas/end of year gift and it's only $20- you can order your own copy here.

Nicola kindly offers one to give away to you. To enter, just leave a comment on this post, telling us what you're cooking for dinner these days. International entries welcome.

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59 responses to “nicola’s calendar + a giveaway”

Andree

October 13, 2014

Loving the new season asparagus, tonight we’re having Asparagus tart.

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Anne-Maree O’Brien

October 13, 2014

Keeping dinner simple these days featuring classic Italian flavours, combined with homegrown goodness from my little garden. Loads of snow peas at the moment.

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Rosa

October 13, 2014

I’m a Brazilian that is becoming more kiwi every day, so we’ll have lots of black beans and pork garnished with rice and freshly chopped oranges but also with stir fried silverbeet for a kiwi touch! Thanks for this marvellous giveaway!

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Tracee Dawn

October 13, 2014

dinner tonight is butternut squash, maple mustard chicken thighs, rice and salad…Ben and Jerry’s ice cream for dessert!

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Margaret

October 13, 2014

I haven’t been doing much cooking lately for various reasons. I was about to start something last night when a friend rang and invited me round to watch the sun set, and we had cheese on toast. So an inspiring calendar would be a good thing.

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KarenLR

October 13, 2014

Our autumn garden in Vermont is slowing down. We are enjoying our own beets and carrots…cut up and sprinkled with olive oil and fresh rosemary…and roasted in a slow oven. We’ll probably pick and sautee the last of the rainbow chard, as the nights are getting close to a hard frost.

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Francesca

October 13, 2014

Unfortunately I haven’t been cooking much of anything lately but with the weather improving I’m getting my appetite and enjoyment of food back so I’m looking forward to trying some new recipies and going back to a few favourites. I’m especially looking forward to fresh crunchy veggies

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Barbara Leyland

October 13, 2014

We are enjoying the new season’s produce from our garden. Lots of fresh asparagus, potatoes, peas and beans with lovely bunches of fresh herbs. Also lots of fresh salads, which is not really cooking I know. As we have a good supply of eggs at present we are eating quiches and frittatas. We have a keen fisherman as a neighbour so we are also luck enough to have fresh fish regularly.

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maggie

October 13, 2014

It’s Thanksgiving tonight in Canada and I made a turkey, squash, stuffing, gravy, and pumpkin pie with whip cream. Just like my mom used to make it. I also made cranberry relish which is just a package of cranberries, one whole orange and sugar to taste in the food processor, no cooking needed. So Thankfuwwwwwal.

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Simone

October 13, 2014

YUM! Going to buy this if don’t win! We are making Stews, soups and now lots of fish and salads…. Bring on summer!

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Matariki

October 13, 2014

Lamb koftas! Recipe out of Jerusalem and served with homemade pita breads and a fake greek salad. Reka.

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robyn

October 13, 2014

oh i would love that! taking a look at the link now, thanks!

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Lesley B

October 13, 2014

We are tending to have more vegetable dishes such as frittata and vegetable quiche now the garden has taken off.They can both be used for lunches or frozen for quick meals too

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lori

October 13, 2014

i’m glad to be introduced to nicola’s blog, thank you! and thank you for this lovely giveaway. we’ve been experiencing an indian summer, too warm for cooking, so we’ve been having simple dinners of cheeses, olives, summer sausage and crackers. looking forward to cooler temps and new recipes (from half way round the world) 🙂

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tinyWOOLF

October 13, 2014

what a lovely surprise. the calendar sounds and looks fun! i’m into baking speculoos again, trying to get at the best recipe ever {well, actually, trying to get them proper out of a finnicky oven}, batch after batch. we’ll get there. n♥

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Kay Young

October 13, 2014

Cream of vege soup with parmesan cheese for dinner tonight. Calendar sounds fun!

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Meg

October 13, 2014

Coconut lentil cauliflower and coriander soup 🙂

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Kathryn

October 13, 2014

Tonight we had homemade patties and salad – simple summer meal and a great reason to get out the BBQ!!

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mariaritasacchi@virgilio.it

October 13, 2014

ciao, partecipo anche se non so l’inglese perchè la possibilità di ricevere un pacchetto dalla NZ mi emoziona io vivo in Italia, dall’altra parte del mondo e seguo il tuo bellissimo blog da tanto tempo.ciao Mariarita

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mariaritasacchi@virgilio.it

October 13, 2014

scusa il commento incompleto:qui sta arrivando il freddo e quindi cibi calorici – polenta e arrosto di coniglio. ciao

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Charlotte

October 13, 2014

Quinoa salad wth asparagus and the like and Moroccan spiced meat 🙂

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Lou

October 13, 2014

Looks like a lovely calendar!
Lately we are enjoying homemade baked beans with fried eggs. Hearty fare!

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Caren Wilton

October 13, 2014

Roast chicken and kūmara and garlic, with fresh asparagus from the garden!!!! Also wild rocket and sprouting broccoli, but the asparagus is the star of the show.

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Sally

October 13, 2014

As we head towards summer, I’m really enjoying salads with tomatoes that have flavour. I had tonight’s salad with roast lamb leftovers and lightly cooked asparagus, the first for the season.

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Chelsea

October 13, 2014

We like to mix it up, but keeping simple ingredients with as many homegrown as possible! A favourite is leek, mushroom and homemade feta tart 🙂 yum.

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sarah watson

October 13, 2014

With the warmer spring weather coming we are loving salads for dinner again. Tonight is was kale massaged with olive oil, salt, pepper and lemon juice served with avo, salmon and a poached egg. YUMMO!

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Heleen

October 13, 2014

What a beautiful calendar! I’d be very keen to try the pizza, it’s one of our staples! x

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Sarah j

October 13, 2014

Bbqs have started with greens from our garden 🙂

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Nihal

October 13, 2014

I can easily say that it is rare a week in beautiful sunshiny autumn goes by without a bit of baking in our kitchen. A savory pie is divine to secret moments. Especially Spinach Börek is definitely a nation-wide most loved one. It can be a whole meal early in the morning for breakfast, for lunch, for afternoon tea time, or for dinner served with ayran (yogurt beverage), but most of the time with tea. At home we love making the phyllo dough (seven) sheets with the long rolling pin (oklava as we call in turkish). Fresh spinach, white cheese, eggs, milk,..
Simple, handmade and straight from our own oven.
Lovely week wishes from Istanbul, Turquie.

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Clare

October 13, 2014

Well, spring is here so its asparagus every night! Yay!

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Suse

October 13, 2014

I’ve been making sticky black rice with coconut milk lately, inspired by some beautiful recent Balinese meals.

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Jannette

October 14, 2014

It’s suddenly very autumnal over here, so I’m cooking proper comfort food: cottage pie, carrot/onion/potato mash (Dutch background…) with gravy, steaming hot spicy pumpkin soup. Yum!!

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jasmin

October 14, 2014

what a beautiful calender! as autumn moves on i’m using the last yellow courgettes from our garden for quinoa salad and in pasta sauce, spicing it up with fresh thyme and mint.

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Maria

October 14, 2014

A lot of veggie-dinners, casseroles with meat, carrots, onions – warm and nice food as the weather gets foggier and colder here in Sweden.

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Toni Paget

October 14, 2014

With summer on its way. Time for fresh fish and beautiful salads. And baked stone fruit with vanilla yogurt.

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beth

October 14, 2014

Omelette with cheese and ham served with peas tonight (and a cheeky slice of bread and butter too) and ketchup for the small folk!
Followed by chocolate chip cake and custard 🙂

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Sharyn

October 14, 2014

After receiving a gorgeous cauliflower fresh from my dad’s garden, it’s Yotam Ottolenghi’s cauliflower cake for dinner tonight

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Tracey

October 14, 2014

There are still lots of salads and sandwiches on the menu since the heat has been hanging on in the deep south of the US. As soon as the predicted cold front arrives I am baking all things pumpkin.

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SallyD

October 14, 2014

The calendar is beautiful. Kids aren’t to adventurous, so pork chops and steamed veggies. Everything from the weekend farmers market! Rather boring but they eat it it- I’d love to expand their taste buds …

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Rebecco@gmail.com

October 14, 2014

African peanut soup.

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Kanae

October 14, 2014

I’m such an “asparagus pig” so asparagus with everything at the moment. Simply steamed, grilled, stir fried, in risotto… oh, and I shouldn’t forget tempura. When I’m lucky enough to get really fresh ones, thinly shaved in salad, too!
It would be nice if they didn’t have the “smell” afterward, though.

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Nagehan

October 14, 2014

Green beans, fresh garden salad, meatballs…:)

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Laurel

October 14, 2014

On a budget right now so there’s a lot of beans and rice or lentils with a bit fresh veg thrown in. Sometimes I like broke people food the best!

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Cyndi

October 14, 2014

We are moving into colder weather here, so we’ve been doing our summer favorites with a more wintery dish.

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Maria Foy

October 14, 2014

We are cooking simple meals from scratch, trying to use the vegetables we have grown in our garden.

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Sophie

October 14, 2014

We had orange and fennel salad with salmon. Those recipes sound amazing and I need a little push to get back into the veggie garden.

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Kirsty

October 14, 2014

Tonight was cannelloni, which the kids declared good, but not as good as enchiladas.

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lisa

October 15, 2014

Where I am in Canada, the days are getting shorter and the leaves are changing color and falling and the temperature is dropping steadily so of course I begin making soups! Squash soup, zucchini apple soup, lentil soup!

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Claire

October 15, 2014

On the other side of the world, autumn is here, it is time for long walks in the Canadian forest among the colourful leaves. Food is all about squash, roasts and stews. Yesterday for Thanksgiving diner we had a butternut soup, with a pork, celery and carrots stew (inspired from Bill Granger’s Easy recipes, that I carried all the way from New Zealand:) and some roasted potatoes. Dessert was apple crumble with maple sirup. Would love to get this calendar, thank you Melissa and Nicola!

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Julie

October 15, 2014

Tonight I am cooking chicken & spinach pasta bake as we have loads of spinach in our garden at present plus I will add in some silverbeet (have lots of this too at present). Also serving some fresh asparagus I bought from my Farmers Market.
Love the look of the calendar & the idea of the space for kitchen & garden notes. Thanks for the opportunity to enter:-)

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