sweet_P wrote: I've started making jam! Feijoa & apricot a few months back - and lemon marmalade just last week!

We might need to swap jam and preserving recipes. I've got my grandmothers' preserving one (well, I can find it in mums recipe book )

It's quite a cool feeling stacking up the jars in the cupboard, feeling all domestic

I've been domestic more on the eating side this week. Vic did a bunch of baking on saturday (golden syrup and sultana biscuits, cheese cookies, ginger crunch and cock-and-balls belgium biscuits (she was given a novelty cookie cutter)).

Not that I'm complaining, mind.

Jono wrote: We might need to swap jam and preserving recipes. I've got my grandmothers' preserving one (well, I can find it in mums recipe book )

An extension of the cooking thread!!

Jono wrote:and cock-and-balls belgium biscuits (she was given a novelty cookie cutter)).

Brilliant!

sweet_P wrote: An extension of the cooking thread!!

There's a cooking thread? I must say that buying a new oven (a miele pyrolytic jobbie) earlier this year has done wonders for the amount of baking I eat. There is nothing like a degree-perfect oven that tells you when the butter cake is cooked (it's got an oxygen sensor) and tells you when you need to run a cleaning cycle (1.5 hours at 460 degrees celcius - everything stuck to the over gets turned into a white powder that you just wipe out with a damp cloth) to get viccles excited.

Jono wrote:and cock-and-balls belgium biscuits (she was given a novelty cookie cutter)).

Brilliant![/quote]

I've got (somewhat disturbing) photos. But they'll need to wait for later - the camera is in the bedroom, I've got insomnia, and Viccles is asleep

A self cleaning oven!!?? Frick! I want one!!

Cooking thread started by Sifter is here

Getting back on topic...

Jim, Thorg & I have been busy gardening in Jim's back yard - well, the boys have been busy - I've been supervising for the most part

We got leeks, broccoli, cabbage, cauli, lettuce, silverbeet, spinach, garlic, carrots, parsnips, tomatoes, peas, beans,strawberries and red onions (maybe more that I've forgotten) in various states from seedlings to nearly ready to eat

Jam and Gardening at 2am.

Only on Zorb..

It's a quiet weather night for me

My jersey bennies have just started poking through the soil. I've had leeks and onions in for a couple of months (the leeks are starting to grow, but it has been rather slow seeing any progress amongst them). And the carrots are slowing making progress too.

I think the garden will do much better once I cut back some of the trees and hedge so that it gets better sun...

Sun.... Wasn't there some of that in the weekend? For a few hours....

(Soon to return this weekend - I hope! Albeit likely briefly again...)

where are the photo's of your vege gardens??

what a the vege's that get planted on labour weekend. in wellington

We did stuff in the garden! (Well - Thorg & Jim did - I slept through it all!*) Will go take a pic for you




* Was on nightshift ok!

Ok.... Here's some pics - explanations in the captions

What was once weeds is now this.... (although, there was a fair whack of top soil under the weeds and over the clay)

Can't wait for the companion flowers to come through, so it's useful and pretty.

Oooo Paula your garden looks awesome! i'm just teaching myself.... should i do the bottle over the lettuce thing you are doing?

We did it to stop the snails etc getting on them when they're little - and to stop the birds pulling the leaves off when picking bugs off! Seems to work!