harvesting

Ingredients to make coleslaw even made the mayonnaise with fresh eggs from the chickens, can't get much better then that, I don't normally add radish to coleslaw but we have so many and it turned out really good and the rabbits love radish's too so we have already planted more radish seeds in the garden.

 And just because its cute, there is only one baby chicken so shes very protective of it and makes a growling sound at you when you pat the chicken.

something interesting

For everyone who uses blogger do you know about view

I read about it over a Living a Little Greener

Its super easy to use type view at the end of of any blogspot blog url. 

examples below 

Random photos for the month of june

Since I didnt post on here for the whole month here are some photos

 Us at the richmond vale railway museum

 The crazy weather we had in june.

 Fitting in a bit of knitting

 After all the rain baby globe artichoke growing out of last yrs flowers

 Excited kids.. yay no rain

 Newest members to the flock

 Gourds drying next to the fire place.

Well hopefully I will be on here more this month and post... but I can't promise anything.

its that time of year

When all you want to do is curl up next to the fireplace with a book and some knitting, but finding the time can be hard with children.. Today I got two book in the mail, so while the bread was in the oven cooking I decided to have a quick look through them when the next moment I was confronted by Alyra a little messier then usual.

 As you can see she was just a tad muddy hehehe.

 And it was all fun and games until she had to have a shower, and with all the distraction I nearly forgot about the bread.. lucky it was ok.. just.

Keeping Busy

Making ricotta and using the whey to make bread and cheese and bacon buns

 I did make 8 buns but by the time they were cool so I could  put them in the freezer there was only four lol

 I gave two of the meat birds the chop today  they were 2.5 kg live weight each and 3.3kg dressed together and that included the kidneys, giblet etc, so roughly 1.5kg each with out the kidneys and giblets. I'm really happy with the weight of them and I have still got 10 kg of food left so will have the rest done before I run out so the cost is still $11 per bird or for these two $7.33 per kg .

 I finally bottled the olives today it took 1hr to pip them all then i baked them slowly with garlic and chillies and then into the jars with olive oil.

 The kids kept busy as well hehehe I'm not actually sure what they are trying to do but its keeping them occupied and its under the mulberry tree, which is there area where they are allowed to dig holes do build things and generally run amok.

Lincon's box

Lincolns box that I mentioned in the previous post, He loves it and has been lugging it around non stop since he finished it.

No spinach

ok so you want to make cheese and spinach triangle but have no or very little spinach, then do what i did and raid the garden I collected spinach but as you can see in the photo not a lot, I added some kale and some wild spinach which are the leaves on the left, now I don't know the correct name for this plant but it dies back with the frost and is a climbing plant. So i cut it all up added some garlic grated cheese and some homemade feta and 4 eggs, and some cut up bacon mix all together and onto the pastry and the great thing about them is they freeze really well.

 Over the weekend Rob and Lincoln made a box for Lincolns treasure and I commented that it would make a really good seed box so yesterday afternoon they present me with this...I'm very happy with it, I will post a photo of Lincoln soon its very cute and just a bit rough looking but for a 6yr old first attempt it awesome.