GECPA Family Corner

Fathers' Day breakfast 

Baked avocado eggs

Ingedients

4 small eggs

2 avocados, halved

2 rashers bacon, halved

130g punnet vine-ripened cherry tomatoes

4 slices sourdough bread

Butter, to serve

Sriracha or tomato sauce, to serve

Chopped fresh chives, to serve

 

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 200°C/180°C fan forced. Line a large ovenproof chargrill pan with baking paper and heat over high heat. Crack 1 egg into a small ramekin. Set aside.
  2. Spray avocado flesh with oil. Chargrill, cut side down, for 3 minutes or until charred. Turn. Pour the egg into an avocado cavity. Repeat with remaining eggs and avocado.
  3. Add the bacon, tomatoes and bread to the pan. Place pan in oven and bake, turning bacon and bread halfway, for 5 minutes or until the eggs are set and bacon is crisp (remove the toast earlier, if already cooked). Butter toast. Serve the egg-filled avocados, bacon, tomatoes and toast topped with sauce and chives.

Grilled Asparagus & Cheese Toast

Ingredients

2 bunches asparagus, ends trimmed

300g fine cut coleslaw

2 tbs olive oil

4 slices sourdough seeds and grains loaf, toasted

1 cup grated light cheddar

 

Method

  1. Preheat grill on high. Bring a frying pan of water to the boil over high heat. Add asparagus and cook for 1 minute or until just tender. Drain.
  2. Combine coleslaw and oil in a bowl, and season with pepper.
  3. Place bread on a baking tray. Top with asparagus and cheese. Place under grill for 5 minutes or until cheese is melted and golden. Serve grilled asparagus and cheese toast with coleslaw.

Did You Know …..

The bubble-gum flavoured broccoli which was developed in 2014 by McDonald as a tastier version of the leafy green for children, was a complete failure as kids were confused by the taste.

 

If Lady Liberty needed a new pair of sandals, it would take size 879 shoes to cover her massive feet.

Recipe for Leftovers 

Did you know that the average household in Victoria throws away $2,136 a year in wasted food? Food waste adds a huge strain on our natural resources.

 

An enormous amount of water, energy, land and fuel go into making every bunch of bananas, or every loaf of bread we buy. So, when we throw this food away, we’re wasting precious resources, and also creating toxic greenhouse gasses in the process.

 

Here are some tasty recipes that are designed to use up leftovers sitting on the bench and in the fridge.

 

Lemon and yoghurt cake

Pea and ham soup

Barbequed chicken pizza

Pumpkin and spinach frittatas

Roasted vegetable pasta

Spinach pesto pasta

 

For more recipes, check out Love Food Hate Wastehttps://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/campaigns/love-food-hate-waste

 

How well do you know your suburb by bike? Try Burbing with your family 

If you aren’t up to date on ‘Burbing’ yet, the concept is very simple: just head out and ride every street in your suburb. You can do it with a map if you like or, if you feel like a real mental challenge, do it without a map. Most suburbs are too big to cover in a single, one-hour ride, so why not break the suburb up into chunks and do it over successive rides? Or, if you’re so inclined, why not find the optimal route for covering your entire suburb. Maybe that can be done in under an hour. Either way, a Burbing ride is a great way to get out and explore your local area. 

 

https://www.bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/2020/08/12/the-burbing-phenomenon/?utm_source=sedm-18.08&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsroom

 

Attracting native birds to your garden

 

Here are tips on how you can attract native birds to your garden, and keep out exotic species like the Common or Indian Myna.

  • Reduce your lawn area – some introduced species prefer a simplistic and open garden structure. Reducing your lawn area is a good way to deter introduced species and attract native ones.
  • Create a diverse landscape with a range of heights using local indigenous species. For example, layer native grasses, low shrubs and higher shrubs.
  • Introduce water into your garden. For example, a bird bath. You can create a sense of security for the bird by placing the bird bath near shrubs.
  • Prickly plants such as Sweet Bursaria (Bursaria spinosa) can help provide shelter and safety from predators.

For a list of groundcovers, wildflowers, shrubs and trees that are indigenous to Glen Eira, check out our Indigenous Plants Guide

 

Cathy McNaughton & Rose Robinson

GECPA