Balcony Garden: Harvest Monday #43

My mint didn't fare too well after it's stress of a waterless four weeks whilst I lived in up in Europe. I came home to what was basically a dead plant with just a few bits of greenery on it....oops.  So I did what any good gardener would do...chopped of ALL the dead bits (aka the whole plant) and saved any minty goodness to use for myself.

True to its reputation as being a trooper of the balcony-gardener world, the mint has ALREADY started to sprout new greenery, in just over two weeks it's making the come back of all come backs. I'm impressed as after two weeks of being home and back at work I still feel deader than the mint.

With my few scraps of mint I decided to try and replicate one of my favourite breakfast dishes from one of my most favourite cafes in Parramatta - Three Ropes Cafe. 

And here we have my version of Three Ropes smashed avocado on toast with feta, lemon and mint.  The whole lot has a good drizzle of olive oil, a squeeze of lemon with some black pepper + rock salt on top.  It's pretty good - but I don't think it's anywhere near as great at the Three Ropes version. A girl can try though, right?

You can view more Harvest Monday posts on Daphne's Dandelions blog.