Sunday, 31 January Spear Grass. Australia Day is 26 January so we are having a week of Australian themed posts, not just restricting them to Sundays. Spear Grass Sorghum ingrans is a very common grass in the woodland savanna of northern Australia. It isn't very palatable for cattle once it matures, but they will eat it when young and its presence apparently indicates good grazing land.
It grows up to 3 metres high and dominates in areas of medium and high rainfall. Check for Ticks! In the middle of winter! He had a tick in a jar that he had pulled off his foot earlier in the day.
A la cuisine hier: I dyed my fingers purple by shredding a 2kg red cabbage and 1kg of onions. Combined with brown sugar, red wine vinegar and a secret seasoning blend it all went into my most humungeous casserole, dotted with a little butter and put on to braise for two hours.
I whipped up some hummus for lunch since I had half a can of chickpeas that needed using up. We had hummus with lettuce and cucumber in Turkish flatbread wraps. It was delicious, tender and savoury. I served it with the braised red cabbage, carrots and green beans. Labels: Australia , nature and wildlife.
Saturday, 30 January Top End Bamboo. This is Bambusa arnhemica , otherwise known as Top End Bamboo. It's native to the northern, tropical third of the Northern Territory of Australia an area often referred to by the locals as the Top End , it's big 8 metres tall , long lived and it grows so fast you can just about see it happening.
