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 […]
A month or so ago, I did a post on raising your own lamb for meat production. We have since had our butcher out and had a couple big days of creating and preserving our meat! WARNING - if you don't like the gory details and pics, don't read on! Most people who raise meat […]
Harvest, Harvest, Harvest - that seems to be the theme for February, in the vegetable patch. From zucchinis to corn, beans to greens - it seems like everything starts coming in ready for picking in February. Harvest and Watering! Our corn is nearly all picked by the end of February. I planted it in […]
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 […]
After my vegie garden update, I had a number of questions regarding my recipe for Green Tomato Pickles, so I thought I would do a post about it today. I had actually never tried Green Tomato Pickles before, but we always have a jar in the fridge – that I buy – because Cam loves it on […]
Well finally I’m getting some significant tomato harvest – I was so sure they wouldn’t ripen in time, as the whole vegie garden has been very slow this year. But I have managed to pick a few good handfuls each day for the last week or so, and they’ve been steadily accumulating. Besides tomato sauce, […]
My vegie garden has been a bit disappointing this year. My tomato bushes are loaded with fruit, but most of it is still quite green. I love to make tomato sauce, and was getting quite worried that my tomatoes wouldn’t ripen, before the weather turned cold. So I lashed out and purchased a 10kg box […]
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 […]