home grown sweet potato

We were very excited to dig up our first decent crop of sweet potato yesterday afternoon. We were roasting a chicken for tea, so we cut up some of the sweet potato and also some of our home grown zucchini, and tossed them in olive oil, laid them on baking paper in a tray and roasted them for about 40 minutes.

 Here are the vegies about to go in the oven.

...and here is last night's simple roast dinner of chicken, sweet potato, zucchini and pumpkin. How rewarding to eat the things grown in your own garden.

Dog friendly camping at Maleny Showgrounds

Ah Maleny! What a beautiful part of the world. We just spent a few days camping with the poodle at the Maleny showgrounds, which is only about a 10 minute walk from the town centre.

We set up our little camp site and headed into town and bought lovely produce and I found this gorgeous bunch of home grown roses at the nursery in the middle of town.

I had recently added these jaunty cutlery pieces to our camping kit and they gave us lots of pleasure to  use.

Here's our little gazebo set up. We were set up right on the bank of the Obi Obi Creek which was flowing beautifully.

There is a wonderful rain forest walk at the end of the showgrounds, which leads you all the way to the bottom end of the township. Our favourite places to shop in Maleny are the Organic co-op, the IGA with its lovely timber floor, great stock and old fashioned service and Rosetta Books, and our best places for coffee are Monicas and Colin James.