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Mum’s liver pate

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My mum makes a most fabulous liver pate. Peder can’t stop eating once he launches into the pate. Lots of friends have tried it and they praise the pate. Now it is time to share a great recipe with you.   250 g of liver beef or pork 250 g of pork fat 1 tbs flour ½ tsp pepper 1 tsp salt 1 egg 2-2½ cups of milk Onion Mix well and bake in oven in bain-marie at 180° for app. 1 hour   Peder added a few fillets of Anchovies. Wow that is magic. Go Peder, go! A bain-marie is a water bath. It is a type of heated bath and the liver pate is heated gently and gradually to fixed temperatures. … [Read more...] about Mum’s liver pate

How to ferment your food

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Wash, peel and grate the veggies. Rinse and chop herbs. Mix together then put in glass or ceramic jar. The food must be covered in liquid. If there is not enough liquid from veggies, add water. Put ingredients under pressure (you can sit a glass jar with water on top of the veggies in the glass or ceramic jar) and make sure they are covered by liquid or they will go mouldy or rotten. If the food goes mouldy scoop it off. If it goes rotten place it in the compost heap. Energy is never wasted. Keep the jar at room temperature until the fermenting is finished after that keep in fridge. Eat as condiment every day. Please note that you do not need to add salt as this is not necessary for the fermentation to take place. If you prefer to use salt use only very little as I find that salt … [Read more...] about How to ferment your food

Cooking with the Sun

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Years ago, to be more exact in 1998, when we were still travelling around Australia in big circles we made camp at one of the many National parks in Northern Territory. We were not the only ones who had found this spectacular spot with lovely water holes and nice bushwalking. A couple were camping in the same camp ground and on the bonnet of their car stood a cardboard box. We walked past this camp and box a few times a day and after two days the owner of the cardboard box stroke up a chat. One of the first things he wanted to know was if we could guess what the box was all about. We had figured out that it would have something to do with the sun but could not guess what else it could be. Well we were right. It turned out to be a homemade solar oven. The fellow explained all about it. We … [Read more...] about Cooking with the Sun