About

“Gustoso” means tasty in Italian.

We named our main blog in honour of Italy winning the football World Cup 2006, and our first food challenge blog which was The World Cup and Plate. Our second food challenge was based on eating and cooking around the The Euro Cup and Plate.

We are currently on a new challenge to see if two amateur gardeners can become self sufficient by converting their lawn to lunch in a year.

We love to write about our experiences of steaming up the windows (and sometimes my glasses) in the kitchen with our cooking, and getting our boots muddy outdoors in the garden (well when it rains). We are slowly moving towards a natural, wholefoods diet. Our gardening is influenced by organic and permaculture practices and techniques.

Professionally we both work full-time in online education. This is our place where we can be creative and experiment with online technologies and our digital camera.

We are based in Brisbane, Australia.

We’d love to hear from you.

Loaves and fishes,

Little m and Big M.

N.B. All content, photos and illustrations are copyright 2009. Please ask permission and give credit if quoting our material.

12 Responses to “About”

  1. joan nova Says:

    Thanks for visiting and commenting on my blog. Hope you stop back again. I like Gustoso!

  2. Nicci Says:

    Hey M’s

    What a wonderful site. Very inspiring, we must start weighing my produce to see how much more I need to plant. I’m going to tell all my friends at Gold Coast Organic Growers to check it out! And I can’t believe you love football too! Nicci

  3. ryan Says:

    What a great name for a blog like this.
    Sorry, that’s a spam I get about once a week and sometimes enjoy saying myself when I like the title. In California we get a guy with a deep voice saying that at the end of commercials on the Latin radio stations.
    I like the recipes. I first read the permaculture book when I was living for a little while in Mullumbimby.

  4. Willi Says:

    Good luck on your challenge! Based on what I see I think you guys are going to be totally successful!

  5. knowledgetoday Says:

    I love your site. Keep it up !

  6. wide open spaces Says:

    You guys are amazing, love what you’re doing.

  7. HS Says:

    Love ‘gustoso’.
    Thank you.

    HS
    Malaysia.

  8. Tracy Says:

    Hi, Just found your blog via the Organic Gardener magazine. I will definitely be back to look around.

  9. Tammy Says:

    Hi, I too just found your blog in the Organic Gardener mag. My husband and I have just started doing this too and soon hope to have some chickens.
    Tammy

  10. Stewart Says:

    Cool blog, thanks for stopping by to mine too.

  11. Katie Says:

    Hi,
    I work at the BBC and would really like to use your picture of the 60s pineapple and cheese on sticks stuck in a grapefruit. Could you please let me know asap if that would be possible. We would of course credit you.
    Thanks,
    Katie

  12. Keith Says:

    Hi,

    Being self sufficient in food is most worthy goal. I have great pleasure in knowing what I’ve grown is going straight onto the plate within an hour of it being harvested.

    Hope you don’t mind, but I have included your site to be indexed by my search engine on http://www.ecowho.com .

    Keep on growing. We too will be keeping chickens next..

    Regards

    Keith

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