Posted in food, food from the gardens, recipe, recipes, tagged food from the garden, lemons, recipes on November 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Melbourne is going to be a little hot tomorrow. Did you see the weather? 38 degrees! Phew! So here at Heritage Hill we’re brainstorming different ways to keep cool. One of the favourite ways takes a little preparation time, so we figured we’d tell you today so it’ll be ready for tomorrow.
Flavoured ice cubes! They’re super simple to do and healthy too, which is something we always love. (more…)
Posted in food, food from the gardens, recipes, tagged food from the garden, lemons, recipes on June 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The lemons are coming back out on our lemon trees, and our orange tree is fruiting beautifully, so today we thought we’d combine them together for an old favourite…
Lemon and Orange Poppyseed cake
Ingredients
50g unsalted butter, melted
1 tablespoon finely grated orange rind
2 tablespoons freshly grated lemon rind
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 tablespoons orange juice
1 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
1 cup self-raising flour
2 tablespoons poppyseeds
1/4 cup reduced-fat milk
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Posted in food, food from the gardens, home made, recipe, recipes, tagged food from the garden, lemons, picnics, recipes on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
We haven’t done anything with lemons for a while, and our lemon trees are still lemoning for all they are worth. The lemons as yet are still unripe, but the green skin recalls to mind one of the tastiest things in the world, the avocado.
Although the avocado has been in Australia since the late 19th century, it first become popular in the 70s. One of the recipe books from this time in a private collection we know of refers to them as “avocado pears” and “alligator pears” due to their skin texture. This recipe book says the very latest way to serve them is halve the avocado pear, destone it, pour some vegetable oil in the hole, garnish with salt and pepper and serve.
We’re not sure if that recipe really captures the beauty and tastiness of the avocado, and we’re also fairly sure that eating an avocado stone amount of oil is not really very healthy.
So instead, we wanted to share our favourite way to eat avocados, guacamole. Plus, it another use for lemons, so everybody wins. (more…)
Posted in food, food from the gardens, home made, recipe, recipes, Uncategorized, tagged food from the garden, lemons, picnics, recipes on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As the final word on picnic food (for now anyway) a reader has emailed us a couple of favourite dip recipes that he likes to take on picnics (thanks Ned!). They all look delicious and pretty healthy, so that’s two wins in one! Plus, all three include some lemon juice, which means they’re all instant Heritage Hill favourites. You can eat them with all sorts of things – toasted 
turkish bread, water crackers, rice crackers, on sandwiches or toast, on slices of raw veggies (carrot and hummus are particularly great together), on fresh bread or anything else you have handy…
Hummus
juice from 1 squeezed lemon
1/2 cup of tahini
2 cloves garlic—roughly chopped
14 oz (400g) canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained
Put everything together in a blender and whizz.
Stop whizzing, taste. Adjust ingredients to taste. (Some people like a little salt in it too)
Eat.
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Posted in family events, food, home made, recipe, recipes, Sundays in the SUn, the gardens, tagged family events, food from the garden, lemons, musical event, Sundays in the Sun, the gardens on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
So, as you know, we’re gearing up for our very first Sundays in the Sun event, which will be filled with musical guests, fun events and BYO picnic, and so that got us thinking, what makes good picnic food? (more…)
Posted in food, food from the gardens, recipe, recipes, the gardens, unexpected events, tagged edible gardens, food from the garden, lemons, recipes, the gardens, unexpected events on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We just had a visit from a recently retired gentlemannamed Russel who has lived just down the road from us for years. Today, he decided, was the day we would finally come visit us. He wandered around our current exhibition showing a selection from our collection and chose a favourite from the paintings and then he visited the Maid’s Quarters, which bought him back fond memories of living in London in the 50s.
As Russel was leaving, he hesitated and said “Can I ask you a favour? Can I have a lemon from your tree?”
He then went on to tell us his favourite summer drink which, due to this heat, he has been craving all day. He didn’t give me quantities, but I would think that the quanitity of all drink ingrediants are subject to personal taste!
Russel said what he does is boil up some water the night before and while it’s still hot, add in honey, ginger and lemon. Then he lets it cool down and puts it in the fridge. He said that it’s the most delicious thing for a hot summers day, with a few ice cubes tinkling in the glass.
It sounds wonderful and we’re very tempted to try it soon! If only the Heritage Hill kitchen had honey and ginger laying around. But we were very pleased to find another thing to do with our old friends, lemons!
Image is not of Russel’s favourite summer drink and instead comes from http://www.flickr.com/photos/smohundro/2838779568/
Posted in craft, food, food from the gardens, home made, recipe, recipes, seniors, the gardens, tagged craft, edible gardens, food from the garden, lemons, recipes, school groups, the gardens on January 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Today we came across a fantastic project that we wanted to share with you, called Dirty Girl Kitchen. Dirty Girl Kitchen was started by Rebecca Sullivan to ensure that skills, talents and recipes from previous generations would not be forgotten and instead are continued to be passed on to young people around Melbourne.
This great paragraph comes straight from their website:
Dirty Girl Kitchen aims to bring those communities of women from our multi-cultural Australia together and share worshipful skills (in which Rebecca has called ‘granny skills’). You know, all the ones that involve getting ‘dirty’.
Posted in food, food from the gardens, recipe, recipes, the gardens, tagged edible gardens, food from the garden, lemons, recipes, the collection, the gardens on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’re opening our Maid’s Quarters in a little over 2 weeks (Sunday, 6 November, 1-3pm. We’ll be exploring the new space with the public, there’ll be finger food and special speaches. Do come along! Bookings are essential, call 9793 4511) and so I’m going through some of the books and magazines in our collection. There’s a bunch of great recipes, knitting patterns and some very interesting articles. But since the Queen is in town, I thought I might share a particular recipe from the Australian Women’s Weekly COOKERY IN COLOUR*, edited by Leila Howard and Marguerite Pattern, which came out in 1960.
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Posted in food from the gardens, recipe, recipes, the gardens, tagged edible gardens, food from the garden, lemons, recipes, the gardens on October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Walking around the garden, you’ll never guess what I stumbled across behind the house. ANOTHER lemon tree. So we’re back to looking for things to do with lemons.
This is a recipe that has you making mini cheesecakes of as many flavours as you can think of. Ok, it doesn’t use up a LOT of lemons, but you’ll end up with some tasty fun.
Posted in art n about, food from the gardens, games, National Gallery of Victoria, tagged art and about, edible gardens, food from the garden, games, lemons on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday at the National Gallery of Victoria, visitors to Freeplay’s Game/Play exhibition at the NGV Studio found there is another use for lemons – Lemon Jousting, an ancient citric sport passed down to them by the UK’s Agency of Coney.
Played with two wooden spoons and a lemon each, the rules are pretty simple (keep your lemon on your spoon, try to knock other people’s lemons off) but the execution is much tricker than you might think.
To see how it’s played, Check out this video, which includes some of the other games played:
Game collective Pop Up Playground will be running another free Playday at the NGV on the 29th of October from 10-6. Drop by if you’re in the area and come play! More details here: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/ngv-studio
Dreamtime - Kundah
12 April - 12 May 
A solo exhibition of recent paintings from renowned Indigenous artist, Kundah.
Colours of Senior Imagination -
Victorian Multi Ethnic Slavic Welfare Association
12 April - 12 May 
An exhibition showcasing paintings created by senior Slavic amateur Artists. Expressions of talent, ideas, identities and culture will visually and creatively provide viewers with an unforgettable experience. In recognition of our senior Artists work and the chance to be introduced and experience our culture through art this exhibition should not be overlooked.
Inside Out
10 August (ongoing) 
Four students from Chisholm TAFE’s new Advanced Diploma of Creative Project Development will be exhibiting Inside Out, an exhibition inspired by the history, stories and objects at Heritage Hill.
For upcoming exhibitions, click here
