Successful Kitchen Failures – Yoghurt

Sometimes, despite your best kitchen efforts, things fail to turn out as planned. Before you toss the failed product into the bin, before you feed it to the chooks, or the dog, think about how you can transform it. I had some raw milk which was getting old and was starting to taste a bit [...]

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Sourdough Bread part 1

I am posting these photos for @tammois (Tammi), to show her some of the breadmaking process that happens in my kitchen on a regular basis. My method is inspired by Dan Lepard’s technique – see ‘The Handmade Loaf”. This post is probably temporary – I’ll put some of the content into another post I’m still planning.  Two [...]

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Eating Kangaroo I – Brining and Grilling

Below is an edited version of something I posted elsewhere, a few weeks ago. There are some very good reasons for experimenting with kangaroo meat. Eating roo is a controversial subject. On the one hand the kangaroo stands proudly on the Australian Coat of Arms, and it is a truly amazing creature, loved by Australians. [...]

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A Dedication, by Adam Lindsay Gordon (1822-1870)

They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less    Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless,    And songless bright birds; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable summer oppresses Sere woodlands and sad wildernesses,    And faint flocks and herds. Where in dreariest days, when all dews end,    And [...]

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A New Blog

I’ll be copying some of my old silverbeet.posterous.com content to this new blog, so that I can better organise it.

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