Smooshed Olives, Smokey Salt & Sarma Scrumminess

Adobe_Post_20200105_1912460.5431181565024392.pngIt's been a funny old start to the year - #ausfires and #worldwar3 trending on Twitter, a good friend about to shuffle off the mortal coil, and smoke blowing as far in all directions that everything seems covered in a funereal pall. Today I turned off Twitter and all the sadness and focussed on good, practical things I could do around the house and garden, throwing on some good tunes and stepping into more of a moment to moment enjoyment of what I have instead of allowing my mind to go into all those sad rabbit holes that poleaxe you when things get a little tough.

I dug up a whole heap of potatoes, so it's very much potato week around here. I never believed potatoes were any better for growing them - they're kinda tasteless in my book, but wowsers, homegrown potatoes do taste completely different. Today's salad was a good, hearty lunch after Jamie worked all morning on the landrover and me pruning, watering, mulching and tidying up cupboards. The potato salad dressing had a yum 'mayonaisse' made from cashews, coconut yoghurt, fire cider and lemon juice - I much prefer it to 'real' mayonaisse. I added toasted corn, pickled peppers and parsley.

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I'm definitely in love with plain coconut yoghurt. There's so much choice now - it seems all the supermarkets are doing their own brand too. It's great in sauces or even mixed with nooch and salt for a kinda cheesy 'spread' or baked on top of roast vegies.

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I discovered a smoked salt at Aldi the other day - I'm totally smitten. I love smoky flavours that add a heartiness to meals, and salt is amaaaaaazing with potatoes, especially cold potatoes!

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I've also been smooooshhinng last year's olives which were getting quite, well, smooshy. My sister had so many jars she sneakily offloaded a heap to me (I found them on my doorstep) so I was either going to throw them before we left, or do something to them that ensured we ate them. I removed the pips and blended with a bit of olive oil, lemon juice and a couple of roast pickled peppers for a beautiful tapenade.

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We also discovered these vegan sarma at a Croatian deli in town. We have stocked for a zombie apocalypse - awesome fast food with rice, salad or mashed potatoes!

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Hope all you plant lovers are having a good start to 2020 - looking forward to getting some inspiration from you all this year on some of my favourite tags of Steemit - #fruitsandveggiesmonday, #veganwednesday and #naturalmedicine, who are offering a small steem prize as contribution to @lenasveganliving's weekly plant based challenge.

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@trucklife-family here, this post has me mouth watering so much yummy food, you certainly have a way with food as much as you do with words. Loving the healthy mayo and the tapenade you have created! I do love all your food blogs.

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Thanks @trucklife-family I do hope we can share a meal together one day x That vegan mayo is so easy... you could do it with your almonds!

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Delicious treat for plant-based foodies - yumyumyum

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The pictures are awesome. Imagining the interplay of chores and the way you put that with the Zombie Apocalypse surely cracked this brotha up. Have you tried smoked paprika (paprika geräuchert) before? I use it for red Pestos.

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Oh I pretty much shower myself with smoked paprika everyday.

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Oh potatoes, how I adore thee. We will grow them ourselves one of these days. Though I was spoiled with one of my organic farmers growing loads of purple and red beauties. I think I probably bought a good portion of his haul throughout the weeks this past year, haha. That olive tapenade sounds amazing, too. Working with plants and homemade food is always a balm to the soul.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR Dear @reverflows! Looks like you have been busy in your garden, which sounds strange to me, being a Canadian, around this time of year, lol. But getting used to it, since I have so many friend from around the world, which is nice.

And speaking of potatoes; I can eat those anytime and anyway, lol. I remember when my grandmother used to dig them up in her garden. All your goodies looks and sounds delicious! Besides, very healthy! 💚🌿💚

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My mouth is watering now. Potatoes scare me off usually with gas but I guess if homegrown, it would be good. Should try growing it here. Beautiful post.

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