Busy-ish morning. Out in the cooking school early experimenting with a recipe for beetroot and chilli relish/sauce. I plan to serve it with smoked salmon, perhaps even mix a little into Labna or cream cheese. It's not a bad environment to work in I have to say. The outlook on the garden is pretty nice … Continue reading Beetroot Chilli Relish
Fancy that - Seville Oranges, grown in one of the local backyard gardens. What to do with them? Marmalade is the obvious choice, but I'm going to make cordial syrup and see how that goes. I think it would be nice, not only as a drink, but as a flavouring for ice cream and cheesecakes.
This is the way we rise our yeast, rise our yeast, rise our yeast. This is the way we rise our yeast on a cold and frosty morning! Bit chilly here today with a crisp frost on the grass, and here I am wanting two different yeasts to start to work. The sun-warmed stone front … Continue reading The Rising of the Yeasts
Nothing dull about school holidays. Stephanie brought young Charly and Jacob and their friend Hayley around today to make taffy. My goodness the cooking school was smelling delightful. The hook on the wall that looks like some Mediaeval implement of torture, is actually a taffy hook. It's sensational to see the lumps of toffee pulled … Continue reading Taffy!
Seems we have a lemon loving lady possum here. Our lemon tree, despite every possible effort, has suffered badly from her nightly grazing. We've hung bags of blood and bone in the tree, even special flashing lights as recommended deterrents. Neither worked - in fact we went out one night to find her playing with … Continue reading The lemon tree that nearly wasn’t
Wonderful place this Derwent Valley. Despite the bitter cold winter, or maybe even because of it, the property here looks amazing, so lush and green. Here are some photos taken from the verandah this morning.
Speaking of bread baking things - meet my new best (bread baking) friend. I bought this dehydrator from Teros in Hobart a week or so ago. I admit it was love at first sight - a dehydrator that would be easy to clean with really good capacity, and metal shelves instead of less than durable … Continue reading My New Best (bread baking) Friend
Look who's had a haircut … I'm afraid it was a necessary evil. Puppy Poppy could barely see out of her fur-covered eyes and would go running through the house, full pelt, and bang into all sorts of things. She hurt, or at least shocked, herself quite badly once or twice. What started out to … Continue reading Poppy’s bad day
In a class here last Saturday, we were chatting with the guests about local accommodation and eateries. In the course of the conversation a little known attraction of one of these venues was revealed. At the historic Tynwald Willow Bend Estate there lives, amongst others, a pig named Tina. From the time she was a … Continue reading A Pig Named Tina
Busy times today - such beautiful weather so time for a combined effort in planting onions and pink-eye potatoes. Jacob kept up his strength by eating a jarful of last summer's preserved cherries.
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