Cooking Fresh Food - breaking the jar/can/bottle habit...

[christy]

ohhhh Astrid!! That's exciting about home-made sausages!!!!

I was thinking (as DH made the 5 minute chocolate cake for visitors..) about how we have few packaged things except for lunches for M at school. I have yet to get enough homemade things for M for lunch. One day a week she takes hummous (homemade) and carrot sticks and rice cakes with her sandwich. And another day is vege muffins with her sandwich, but still she needs more snacks and stuff.... being dairy free is difficult for snacks and trying to not use package ingredients.

[Astrid]

I find that homemade biscuits are eaten so quickly. I think next time I might need to bake up a couple batches (and hide one) so there is something for the end of the week.

DH had everyone jealous at work one day as he rocked up with silverside, parsley sauce and veg for lunch. Sauce was homemade of course with our own parsely

[christy]

Astrid I actually make a double batch and freeze half the dough for my biscuits for later! That way I don't have to make them twice. I have choc chip cookie dough in the freezer as well as the biscuit part of jam drops for later....

[TheBear]

It's great to see people getting into this - keep up the good work...

This was my New Year's Eve effort this year - Click here for pictures

[Rouge]

Delish Bear Nothing better than a spit We were actually talking about this a couple of weeks ago!

Bit of a warning though who might be vegetarian or have an aversion to cooking animals

Awesome work, next time send me an invite

[TheBear]

Fair point - if you are squeamish then I'd give the link a miss...

The comical thing was the preparation - the pig had been in the deep freeze in my lockup for a couple of months, so the night before I had several interesting learnings:-
1. It is much easier to put a freshly killed pig into the freezer than it is to extract a frozen pig that has molded to the shape of the freezer.
2. When transporting a frozen pig across town, think twice before sitting it in the passenger seat of the car and putting a seatbelt on it....think a third time before driving past an active RBT site!
3. How the f*&*( do you thaw a 55kg lump of pork overnight?

:-)

[suse]

2. When transporting a frozen pig across town, think twice before sitting it in the passenger seat of the car and putting a seatbelt on it....think a third time before driving past an active RBT site!

:-)

A friend of mine had exactly the same problem, except that he'd pulled up at the lights next to a police car. He'd tried to make the pig incognito by putting sunglasses on it, but it didn't work for some strange reason...

[thepixie]

I'm making my own marmalade at the moment. Damn that Bear, I never even used to eat marmalade and now he has me making it myself!

[thepixie]

3. How the f*&*( do you thaw a 55kg lump of pork overnight?

Not in the bathtub, unless you're angling for a divorce! LOL