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Category: <span>Consuming / Cooking</span>

Category: Consuming / Cooking

Cooking, drying, storing, eating and using the goods you have grown / sourced. Includes Solar Cooking plus Tips and recipes for health, financial, environmental and time benefits.

Cooking, drying, storing, eating and using the goods you have grown / sourced. Includes Solar Cooking plus Tips and recipes for health, financial, environmental and time benefits.

Chilli Sauce Vinegar Testing

Testing vinegar types for chilli sauce… As a follow up to our basic chilli sauce how-to (here), we thought it would be great to do a taste test to see the different vinegars can make to a recipe. We used the same recipe and the same type of chilies with 8 different types of vinegar… White White Malt Brown Malt White Wine Balsamic Apple Cider Rice Wine Top Secret, best for sauces homegrown 🙂 It was ridiculously hard to resist adding cardoon and other yummies, but we managed to keep the recipe basic: 15g superhot chillies (a poor reaper in …

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Solar Cooking a Carrot and Walnut cake in a Timber Cake Box…

Timber Cake Box Test It’s been over a year since I have been wanting to test the amazing Timber Cake Boxes. Giving truly unique results, these boxes are the perfect fir for the Sun Oven® (we sell the Sun Oven as well as Timber Cake Boxes here). Today, we decided to put a quick carrot and walnut slice together and put in the Sun Oven. How to line the Timber Cake Box: First, measure the length of baking paper needed. I cut just over twice the length as the box we were using is square. (If using a rectangle box, …

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What happens when you accidently leave curry in the oven ALL DAY?

Today, we had some diced meat that needed using, so I thought I would document how quick and easy it is to cook for free in the Aussie Edition Sun Oven® (a product we sell and distribute here) Unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan…as per normal 😝 First off, the ‘recipe’ which for this one was mainly just pre- purchased sauces to make it as quick and easy as possible. The below is not an endorsement for specific brands, (though we do use and recommend a lot of Melrose products) Ingredients: Approx 2kg of beef. 2 different old curry powders …

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Redeeming Kombucha vinegar and more!

Having lots of gut issues over the years, I had often thought about doing Kombucha. Finally, I gathered the needed equipment and got the needed Scoby & teas…but adding something else to an already full life wasnt off to a great start! Doing the first brew was easy, though my wifes birthday was approaching and we were working over time to try to get the house to a point where it was ready for the 100+ people who were meant to be coming. By the time of the her birthday, the Kombucha had been sitting for 6-8 weeks and had …

Consuming / Cooking