The sourdough starter technique I'm about to describe here is one that I have been making for a few years now - I can't remember where the initial recipe came from but I have certainly tweaked it a bit over time anyway. The sourdough starter is simply a mixture of flour and water. Wild yeast […]
Homemade ice cream - seriously the most delicious thing ever!! We have an abundance of milk at the moment. We have weaned Marmalade's calves, but are still milking her for a few more weeks. And of course when you have lots of milk - you also have lots of cream!! So we have been […]
About a year ago now, my husband came up with the fantastic idea to get our kids to cook every Sunday night. My initial thoughts were "bloody fantastic idea" - and lets be honest, I was purely thinking of it from my own point of view "Yes!!! - one night a week when I don't […]
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, we had the perfect summer for growing produce. Plenty of warm days interspersed with the odd rainy day, which has had both the vegie garden and the orchard doing very well. I hate wastage and so have tried to preserve as much of the fruit and vegies […]
Finally harvested the last of the corn yesterday. Feels good to have it all frozen ready to see us out for winter. Everyone in the family loves corn so its great to have a good supply throughout the year. Most of it we picked a couple of weekends ago, and my wonderful parents peeled […]
For about 10 days in a row, back in November, Danny was out in the veggie garden raiding the strawberry patch. I didn’t mind at all, because I didn’t have time to pick them. Whatever he couldn’t eat, he brought inside, washed for me and piled them in bowls in the fridge. We had plenty […]