Recent outputs

Ginger Beer

My first attempt at home brew - has now been bottled and I am (im)patiently awaiting the end of next week when it will be ready for tasting... 

Pretty straightforward, boil up a premixed kit with water, add yeast and leave in a warm place (20-30 degs celcius) for a couple of weeks until fermentation complete (ie it stops bubbling), add the ginger flavoring (sachet), + 2 days, bottle (I used PET Coopers bottles this time as they were easy) with 2 carbonation drops (but you can just use sugar). 










Grapefruit Marmalade

Home grown grapefruits, lemons and oranges

I used mostly grapefruits (yellow, not pink), and raw sugar in this batch and the result seems to be much darker marmalade, compared to the previous lot, which was mostly made of oranges (with grapefruit and lemon as the support act), with ordinary white sugar, see below:

The chooks


(don't worry, only eating their eggs!)

The Araucana "Chilli" laid her first egg today:

Keep em coming girl!

the inaugural post

Hello and welcome to my blog: home...harvest...cook

It is nearing the end of our first winter living on the banks of Goulburn River in northern Victoria. Surviving the rat-race during the week, the weekends are the time to play in the garden and the kitchen.

Poached pear and vanilla bean gem cakes, Sunday morning 29/8/10

Albeit a long way from self-sufficiency, we grow loads of our own produce - the previous caretakers of this land planted an amazing orchard of stone and citrus fruits, so we are the lucky beneficiaries of their efforts.

We are experimenting with lots of different veges in the garden, as well as some foraging for bush-food (nettle soup and wild fennel have been some recent successes).

I plan to share my home harvest creations and other ideas to hopefully inspire you to grow your own, create your own and bake your own. Hope you enjoy :o)