This is the traditional and the best way of preparing meat for smoking. No chemicals, no special pickling salt. You only need the regular salt and garlic. That’s it! Tasty can be healthy! Ingredients: meat: pork belly 500g or more table salte 1 or more garlic bulb Clean the meat Crush lots of garlic and mix it with plenty of salt. We used here one large garlic bulb. Rub in and cover the meat with the salt garlic mix Cover with a clean towel and keep in a fridge for 4 days. Check everyday and remove the excess water if there is any After 4 days (3 nights), wash the… Read More
Continue ReadingOats Honey Cookies
Easy, quick and healthy cookies wholefood recipe. Great for baking with children. Oats Honey Cookies 125g butter 280g oats 50g ground almonds 50g cocos 120g honey 2 Eggs 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 pinch of salt Turn on the oven on 175 degrees Celsius. Melt the butter. Mix oats, almonds and cocos. Add the melted butter, mix together and put aside for about 10-15 minutes. You can use this time for the next step and for laying the baking paper on the tray. Mix honey with eggs, baking powder and salt. Add to the oats nuts mix and combine. Put a little portions on a baking paper and bake for… Read More
Continue ReadingQuick And Easy Wholefood Chocolate and Cheesecake
This Wholefood Chocolate Cheesecake is something special for chocolate, cheese and healthy food lovers. Quick and easy like all my recipes. Quick And Easy Wholefood Cheesecake 400g wholemeal 180g warm butter 160g raw sugar 40g cacao 2 Eggs 2 tbs sour cream 1 teaspoon baking powder Combine into a nice and smooth dough. Put 1/4 of the dough aside for the topping. Distribute the remaining 3/4 of the dough on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Now the cheese mix. Add into a bowl or food processor: 1000g cottage cheese (the cheapest one from Woolie or Coles is just fine) 200g butter 260g raw sugar 4 Eggs one pinch… Read More
Continue ReadingOur Slow Smoked Goodness
An absolute old-fashion style of smoking with just a couple of natural ingredients. It was entirely Seb’s work and the recipes comes from his parents and grand parents. Yummy!! Here some photos of our smoked goodness! The recipe how to prepare meat for slow smoking is HERE
Continue ReadingHow To Build A Smokehouse
Yes, our smokehouse is ready and I love it. It works great! I will tell you more about our first smoked products in my next post. Here is the video how to build a smokehouse or how we did it and the finished product. Tips: If you want to build a smokehouse using timber, it is VERY VERY important to use NOT treated timber. You don’t want to have the poison in your meat later… the smoke goes up, thats simple physic so make sure your channel outlet is not too low (we did the mistake at first and had to re-do the channel, watch the video and you will… Read More
Continue ReadingOur Backyard May 2015
Lots of news here in the garden. Our first bunch of bananas was really yummy! I did a nice dinner using the banana flower. Now, the next bunch is growing and the next banana flower has been eaten. Our guinea fowls and chooks are happy birds and the ducks went to the freezer. We were hoping for at least one girl but no. We had four boys which started to fight and chase each other the whole day so their time has come…. Well, this is life, and we got some beautiful organic meat in the freezer. Here some update of our backyard. This is our passion fruit. You can… Read More
Continue ReadingOur Backyard December 2014
New chook pen Muscovy ducklings Banana flower Guinea fowl chicks Silver Dorkings chicks.
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