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I tried canning salsa for first time this year, we are very pleased with the flavour of this recipe. I added 2 Tb dried oregano and a few very hot small chillies for extra bite.

http://www.food.com/recipe/wonderful-salsa-9272

Has anyonw heard from ma?
I sent off seeds and a prepaid satchel for swaps on 5th September and have heard nothing since, and no reply to PM either.

Hope everything’s okay. Anyone know?

Lucky you to have a sex-linked breed!
I’ve got 8 goslings of indeterminate breed and gender, and the parents won’t let me near them for clacker inspection :confused:

Came across this great blog…
Hunter Angler Gardener Cook – Finding the Forgotten Feast

Lots of recipes for sausages, salami etc
http://www.honest-food.net/blog1/cured-meat-recipes/

Hiyaself ali_celt :wave:
No, not been here much lately, will PM you

You shouldn’t need to refrigerate or waterbath lemons preserved in brine – the salt does all the work for you. I’ve got several batche sin the pantry, the oldest is nearly two years and they are still fine. I don’t rinse mine off, sometimes I remove the flesh if I plan to finely chop them for rice or salad, or I add them whole to soup or casserole.

We are omnivores here too, cept I don’t eat offal or shellfish.

ETA We love spicy and hot foods

Any of the slow-cook Middle East / Persian /Moroccan / African recipes work well with older sheep meat. They often include astringent or acidic ingredients (quince, lemons, pomegranate, etc) that tenderise the fibres and cut through the fatty taste. Our sheep get harvested as hogget – tastier than lamb, but not as strong as mutton.

Purple Pear wrote:
An effective solution for fungal problems is to change the pH on the surface of the leaf. This is done by spraying one day with bi carb soda and the next with apple cider vinegar – diluted of course.

Purple Pear, what dilution do you use please?

We had some success (I think :uhoh: maybe) from shoving a copper pipe into the…[Read more]

Are people starting their beds from ground level up, or digging down for the base layer?

You can find info about angelica
here

It’s a bit crowded in there!

:tongue:

Fancy being born on International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Aaaah I knew there had to be an explanation for the accent!

Thanks for the good wishes.

I got the best of presents, a set of eight individually wrapped goslings, courtesy of Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert.

😀

Haven’t seen this new one, but you can get a lot of info via the internet already abut pharmacognosy…

A couple of my favs are here:
A Modern Hernal by Mrs M. Grieve
King’s American Dispensatory

And as far as using poisons as medicines, you can’t go past the homeopathic pharmacopoeia and materia medica, IMHO of course.

I’m in favour of the snip too

It’s a powder.
I sprinkled a light dusting on the dirt floor of dog’s shed and in the chook pen. You can use it in the garden, or in the house, or direct on the animals just like you would with flea or insecticide powder. I also had moderate success with sprinkling it on ant trails – we have major problem here with bull ants, they would carry us…[Read more]

I used diatomaceous earth last summer for dog and poultry living quarters – no problems with fleas or lice. Definitely will be using it again as the weather warms up.

I’ve been starting mine off indoors in ziplock sandwich bags lately.

I got fed up with seeds disappearing (ants, birds, chooks) and seedraising mix drying out before anything sprouted. I’ve been very pleased with the results so far, even 2-3 yr old dodgy seeds have been germinating.

About half fill a bag with seedraising mix, squirt in some…[Read more]

Where’s the vodka :confused::shrug::D