January 2015 Blog Posts (6)

I've been making my own yogurt for years and have developed my technique with easy DIY in mind.Home made yogurt is so much cheaper than store bought stuff as all you need is milk and a little starter (left over from a previous batch).

EQUIPMENT:

• Cooking thermometer: make sure you use one with a long stem and easy to read (very large) numbers.
• Rice cooker with a glass lid: if you don't have one of these, get a…

This is the recipe for the Zucchini Bites that I took along to the GV at Lissa'a today. I usually double the recipe and freeze. They are fine to heat up in the microwave for a quick Breakfast or Lunch.

Ingredients

Hi everyone.  Well the holidays have been lovely - hot, but lovely.  I'm back at work today but am determined to keep my garden going in this hot weather.  While on holidays, I have been researching fruit trees and found some more I just had to try.  I picked up a jiro persimmon (with fruit on it - yay) and a 1.3 m high grumichama (yay again as they are supposed to be slow growing and hopefully mine is old enough to produce fruit.…

Those who have been to visit my garden will know how much I've been enjoying having the time to garden since winding down my business so I can work from home. Well, no more, or not for a while anyway.

I have put my hand up as the Labor candidate in Aspley for the coming state election. It is supposedly a very safe seat for the LNP.

The thought of how much irreversable damage that three more years of letting mining interests rule would do to the environment in…