I've been using an airfryer since lockdown and just purchased a new Ninja brand one.

Not only is it easy and quick it's also a healthy way of cooking.

Ingredients​

Serves:  1

• 500gms Pumpkin
• 1/2 tspn Olive Oil

Method​

1. Peel and cut pumpkin into wedges or chunks, approximately 1/2 inch thick. I used Kent pumpkin for this recipe.
2. Place pumpkin wedges into a bowl. Add 1/2 tspn of olive oil or Spritz lightly with olive oil spray. DO NOT use aerosol sprays as these can harm the interior of your fryer
3. Place pumpkin into basket in single layers, with no overlap. These don't require turning. If using more slices, you will be required to turn and shake basket to ensure even cooking and of course increase cooking time
4. Roast pumpkin at 180 degrees for 20 - 25 mins. Cooking time will be dependant on the thickness of your wedges and the strength of your air fryer. Good idea to check after 15 mins and continue cooking as needed. Wedges should be tender and golden.

Dont be fooled by the simplicity of these wedges. They are truly sensational. Any variety of pumpkin can be used although butternut doesn't hold up as well in my experience

 

[Josephine B]

Please add some of your recipes .
All recipes I post I have tried and tested.
Whereas there are others who post recipes on here who post everything and anything that they haven't cooked.

I love recipes that @Penny4 @Bullwinkle post. I'm pretty sure I would LOVE your recipes

Yes, I've noticed that they post recipes that one can tell they're usually from America because of weights, temps or even products that we can't get here. I have a file on my laptop with all the recipes I have sourced mounting to 23,000+ according to my husbands recollection. I must admit that I HAVEN'T made them all over the years, but a good amount of them as I make something different every day. I do have a lot of favourites that I repeat when I can't think of what else to make, usually the quick type.
I'll have to sort through them for you, but right at the moment we're decluttering, sorting out, going to Vinnies numerous times to gift to them as we're downsizing from a 5 bedroom to a 2 bedroom Village. It's a very emotional time right now with having to give away or dispose of things that our 3 children (now all married and blessed us with 10 grandchildren) had given or made for us, I'm an emotional person that likes to keep these little odds and ends, but the time has come.

 

[Josephine B]

Hubby uses every inch of our yard to grow things . Atm we have an abundance of mixed lettuce,tomatoes and cucumbers. Plus spinach and zucchini
We also have a huge herb garden at both sides of our house.

Hubby was a landscape gardener and also gets a lot of ideas from YouTube and gardening shows. Vasilis gardening show is his favourite .

Our flowers are in the front yard although he grows marigolds throughout the vegie garden.
Our mangoes are nearly ready to pick as are the figs

"I WISH".
I've always wanted a backyard big enough to grow mainly produce, but with a few flowers for the extra colour.

Our backyard for the past 45 years has comprised of a swimming pool, hubby's choice even though I am a retired swimming instructor, but don't like getting into a pool anything smaller than 25m. What garden I have is all in pots and in a few weeks I'll have even less since we're downsizing, so pots it will be still.

 

[Josephine B]

Our yard is only 700 m but hubby has done well with planting boxes ,trellises ect
Then next to the fences we have orange, lemon, mandarin trees. In tge muddle of tge yard we have two mango trees , olive trees, bananas and fig trees.
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Love your backyard. Something I can only dream of.

 

[Josephine B]

Hubby uses every inch of our yard to grow things . Atm we have an abundance of mixed lettuce,tomatoes and cucumbers. Plus spinach and zucchini
We also have a huge herb garden at both sides of our house.

Hubby was a landscape gardener and also gets a lot of ideas from YouTube and gardening shows. Vasilis gardening show is his favourite .

Our flowers are in the front yard although he grows marigolds throughout the vegie garden.
Our mangoes are nearly ready to pick as are the figs

After eating a mango here about 5 months ago I tried the trick that we used to do at school with placing a few grains of wheat on cottonwool in a glass jar. I tried this with the mango seed and it started to grow, so then planted it in a pot and it's now about 30-35cm tall. I know I won't be able to take it with us when we move, but I can't help myself in trying to reproduce anything and everything. I took it as a project just to see if it took on roots.
I know it would take up to 7 years to produce fruit, so looks like I'll still be buying my mangoes.

 

[Suzanne rose]

After eating a mango here about 5 months ago I tried the trick that we used to do at school with placing a few grains of wheat on cottonwool in a glass jar. I tried this with the mango seed and it started to grow, so then planted it in a pot and it's now about 30-35cm tall. I know I won't be able to take it with us when we move, but I can't help myself in trying to reproduce anything and everything. I took it as a project just to see if it took on roots.
I know it would take up to 7 years to produce fruit, so looks like I'll still be buying my mangoes.

One of our mango trees hubby planted from a seed of a mango he ate. I think we got our first mango from that tree after 5 years. Last year we got around 80 mangoes from it and over 100 from the other one.
This year we should have around 100 between both trees. Our grandkids love helping hubby in the garden and love picking and eating the produce.

Why don't you plant the mango in a pot, then repot it into a larger one as it grows. Then when you move you can take it with you.

 

[Suzanne rose]

Love your backyard. Something I can only dream of.

The only problem is we can't play backyard cricket anymore

 

[Bellclare]

I remember for lunch the next day my grandmother would mix together the leftover vegies and meat from the night before , usually roast dinners. She would then reheat in a frypan and would call it bubbles

YES, my mum would do that a lot with us too.

Love, love, love your garden Suzanne - what a boon for your kids & grandkids! No wonder they love helping grandad in the garden.

Thanks so much for sharing so many of your recipes over the years here - they have been wonderful & my family have appreciated them.

 

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Flo's pumpkin scones

READY IN: 35 mins
YIELDS: 15 scones

INGREDIENTS​

• 1 tablespoon  butter
• 1⁄2 cup  sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon  salt
• 1 egg
• 1 cup mashed pumpkin  (cold)
• 2 cups  self Raising flour

DIRECTIONS​

1. Beat together butter, sugar and salt with electric mixer.
2. Add egg, then pumpkin and stir in the flour until just combined.
3. Turn on to floured board and cut into squares.
4. Place in tray on top shelf of very oven, 225°C for 15-20 minutes.

Been using the basis of her recipe now for a number of years but on my wife's suggestion, added a t spoon of curry and only 1/4 cup of sugar, no egg and cut them round rather than square.
My doctor, specialist(s), dentist and pretty much anyone in the medical side of my life absolutely luvem!

 

[Veggiepatch]

Our yard is only 700 m but hubby has done well with planting boxes ,trellises ect
Then next to the fences we have orange, lemon, mandarin trees. In tge muddle of tge yard we have two mango trees , olive trees, bananas and fig trees.
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How do you fit so much into a suburban backyard in Roselands. Simply amazing!!!

 

[Veggiepatch]

Hubby uses every inch of our yard to grow things . Atm we have an abundance of mixed lettuce,tomatoes and cucumbers. Plus spinach and zucchini
We also have a huge herb garden at both sides of our house.

Don't say CUCUMBERS!

The death of me!

 

[Suzanne rose]

How do you fit so much into a suburban backyard in Roselands. Simply amazing!!!

People are always amazed when they see our backyard. Hubby has always had fruit trees and vegies , then when the kids grew and didn't play cricket or footy in the backyard he started adding more and more garden.
My married daughters say it's like going to the fruit shop to buy vegies except its fresh and free.
He has an ex nsw premier and Australian cricket captain who calls in for coffee and always go for a walk around the garden

 

[Suzanne rose]

Don't say CUCUMBERS!

The death of me!

I'm loving those baby cucumbers at the moment where you just eat the whole cucumber. I told Vasili to try and grow them.
Has Debra had to stop eating them

 

[Suzanne rose]

"I WISH".
I've always wanted a backyard big enough to grow mainly produce, but with a few flowers for the extra colour.

Our backyard for the past 45 years has comprised of a swimming pool, hubby's choice even though I am a retired swimming instructor, but don't like getting into a pool anything smaller than 25m. What garden I have is all in pots and in a few weeks I'll have even less since we're downsizing, so pots it will be still.

It was either garden or getting a pool .
The pool was winning then our daughter who lives around the corner said to just go and use her pool and save the money. Then my son who also has a pool said the samething and told hubby about the upkeep ,then he added that you spend all this money and it doesn't really add money to the house as it can actually be a turn off to alot of buyers.

But I often say how nice it would be on those really hot nights

 

[IAN3005]

I will buy pumpkins no matter what price!
In winter we grow our own and normally in abundance which we then supply family , friends and neighbours with

That's the problem.....

 

[Josephine B]

One of our mango trees hubby planted from a seed of a mango he ate. I think we got our first mango from that tree after 5 years. Last year we got around 80 mangoes from it and over 100 from the other one.
This year we should have around 100 between both trees. Our grandkids love helping hubby in the garden and love picking and eating the produce.

Why don't you plant the mango in a pot, then repot it into a larger one as it grows. Then when you move you can take it with you.

Suzanne I LOVE your idea, but we're moving into a retirement village and I doubt we'd be allowed to plant a tree that gets that big. I LOVE anything lemon, so I'm going to try my dwarf combined "lemon/mandarin" tree that's in a medium pot that our eldest son gave us for Christmas 2023. I have another dwarf Tahitian lime as well as a dwarf Myer lemon, but they're in big pots that are too heavy to lift, so they'll stay with the new owners here. I think I'm VERY limited in what I can take to what I'd love to take.

 

[Mina vriesekolk]

Pumpkin is such an easy and versatile vegetable . I have them growing from my compost patch , they are butternut and Kent . I give them away to friends and neighbours and have still about 7 waiting to be consumed . Today I made roast pumpkin and potato in the oven with rosemary and a bit of olive oil , only took 30 minutes to cook. Last Saturday I baked a healthy pumpkin bread with applesauce and streusel on top , very nice and moist . Tomorrow i will make lady Flo’s pumpkin scones , they are very nice and very easy to make , no cold butter what you have to do in most scones recipes. Lady Flo’s popular pumpkin scones were made public after her passing . Just Google if you want something different and if I like them , I keep it in my file .

 

[Suzanne rose]

Suzanne I LOVE your idea, but we're moving into a retirement village and I doubt we'd be allowed to plant a tree that gets that big. I LOVE anything lemon, so I'm going to try my dwarf combined "lemon/mandarin" tree that's in a medium pot that our eldest son gave us for Christmas 2023. I have another dwarf Tahitian lime as well as a dwarf Myer lemon, but they're in big pots that are too heavy to lift, so they'll stay with the new owners here. I think I'm VERY limited in what I can take to what I'd love to take.

What hubby also has is a lemon tree and mandarin tree in large pots with a trellis. He has grown the trees and as they grow he ties the branches onto the trellis. The trees look flat but produce alot of fruit.
He tries different things all the time

 

[Josephine B]

What hubby also has is a lemon tree and mandarin tree in large pots with a trellis. He has grown the trees and as they grow he ties the branches onto the trellis. The trees look flat but produce alot of fruit.
He tries different things all the time

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I know exactly what you mean by the trellis, but atm for the life of me I can't remember what it's actually called.

I just remembered - topiary.

I'll definitely have to try that at our new home when we move in.

 

[Josephine B]

What hubby also has is a lemon tree and mandarin tree in large pots with a trellis. He has grown the trees and as they grow he ties the branches onto the trellis. The trees look flat but produce alot of fruit.
He tries different things all the time

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Suzanne can I ask what variety is your lemon tree here and is it a dwarf variety?

 

[Suzanne rose]

Suzanne can I ask what variety is your lemon tree here and is it a dwarf variety?

Meyer and Eureka and just normal.

Hubby purchased these two yesterday from bunnings on sale for $25.


Ones a Tangelo which he may do the same and the other is an orange tree. I have no idea where he will plant it
My backyard and both sides are full

That mango fell off last night with the storms

The pictures don't include the huge vegetable garden which I posted pictures before

I purchased the hanging plant below for inside , abd guess where it is ? In his garage