Author: PK
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Mung Bean Sprouts
Wikipedia writes ‘also known as the moong bean, green gram, or mung, is a plant species in the legume family. The mung bean is mainly cultivated in India, China, and Southeast Asia. It is used as an ingredient in both savoury and sweet dishes’.
Here are the seeds and as you can see I am buying them in larger quantities to save money:
My kids and I love growing them as sprouts:
Yum,
PK
Links:
- see more sprout posts here
- go to all meal ingredients
- go the Grow It Perth calendar
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Ben’s Beef Jerky
Beef jerky is a great snack.
Its healthy, flavoursome, and gives you a little burst of energy. I never follow a recipe, so everything is quantity based and taste based. I use a dehydrator to dry the beef, however a light box will be just as good (if not better), it just takes longer.
If I had to roughly write down what I do, this would be it:
- Put into a bowl ~2 tbsp each of Soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce. Add in ~1 tsp malt or brown vinegar, and ~3 tbsp sugar. Mix till dissolved, taste and adjust as necessary until you have a nice flavour.
- Add in any other flavours you like. I will usually add a combination of chilli, smoked paprika, smoke water, coriander seeds (ground), onion or garlic powder.
- Cut ~1 -1.5 kg beef (try to get a topside or silverside) into strips ~1x1cm, as long as you like.
- Trim any fat off.
- Soak the beef in the sauce for 2-3 hours, making sure it is all well mixed.
- Place beef into dehydrator/light box, turn on and leave until you are happy with the toughness of the jerky (I like it tough, so ~24 -36 hours in the dehydrator). Also make sure it is preserved well enough to avoid food poisoning.
Couldn’t be easier,
Ben
Here are some additional Jerky recipes and more from Ben:
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- Put into a bowl ~2 tbsp each of Soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce. Add in ~1 tsp malt or brown vinegar, and ~3 tbsp sugar. Mix till dissolved, taste and adjust as necessary until you have a nice flavour.
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Broad Bean (Fava Bean): Grow and Eat
This tall sturdy flowering annual in the bean family produces a multitude of long pods with 8 large beans (the thick walled pods are unpalatable raw) and edible leaves perfect for salads. The plant has sturdy stems and will grow to almost 6 foot but it is not a climber.
Taste/Aroma:
I love the buttery texture of this bean. You can do lots with it but I like to simply sauté them in some butter. I am the only person in the family that likes them though :).
I am yet to make soup with them but this is also a popular use of this bean.
Heike Motzek pointed me at this recipe as a use for the thick walled pods. Now I don’t have to put them all in my worm farms 🙂
Blanching and Storing:
One minute in boiling water and three minutes in freezing water and then into the freezer.
Flower:
Fruit:
Plant:
Leaves:
Grow It Perth:
I start planting in April, stopping in August/September. The plants will keep cropping into October.
Growing Fava beans is relatively easy but you need to give the mature plants some support as they can grow to 6 foot. I use coils of chicken wire but stakes and twine do just as well.
Use a vegetable tailored NPK fertiliser and you should get multiple crops from each plant.
Enjoy,
PK
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Broad Bean (Fava Bean)
This tall sturdy flowering annual in the bean family produces a multitude of long pods with 8 large beans (the thick walled pods are unpalatable raw) and edible leaves perfect for salads. The plant has sturdy stems and will grow to almost 6 foot but it is not a climber.
Taste/Aroma:
I love the buttery texture of this bean. You can do lots with it but I like to simply sauté them in some butter. I am the only person in the family that likes them though :).
I am yet to make soup with them but this is also a popular use of this bean.
Heike Motzek pointed me at this recipe as a use for the thick walled pods. Now I don’t have to put them all in my worm farms 🙂
Blanching and Storing:
One minute in boiling water and three minutes in freezing water and then into the freezer.
Flower:
Fruit:
Plant:
Leaves:
Grow It Perth:
Green squares = harvest and plant seedlings
Blue squares = plant seedlings, sets or crowns only
Orange squares = harvest only
Black squares = no planting and nothing to harvest
White squares = I don’t know and need your helpM A M J J A S O N D J F bean broad Growing Fava beans is relatively easy but you need to give the mature plants some support as they can grow to 6 foot. I use coils of chicken wire but stakes and twine do just as well.
Use a vegetable tailored NPK fertiliser and you should get multiple crops from each plant.
Related Links:
- see more bean posts here
- see more fava bean posts here
- go to all meal ingredients
- go the Grow It Perth calendar
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Selby’s NoRecipe Chilli
Hey PK, I saw you were asking about ‘no recipe’ recipes and it made me think that mine would definitely be chilli … there are a few reasons for this, it is great sharing food, it’s pretty easy to adapt for vegetarian, vegan and gluten free friends and it can also be eaten with rice, in tacos or nachos … here’s my camping kitchen soft taco version tonight from Emu Park in Queensland, Australia.
I don’t want to make out this is anything like authentic Mexican chilli but my versions always have at least kidney beans, tomatoes, capsicum, onion and are seasoned with paprika, cumin and garlic.
Tonight I added beef mince and corn to the chilli and we had fresh mashed avocado, sour cream, cheese, lettuce and tomato to add to our soft tacos.
Selby
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Selby’s Easy Camping Chilli
Hey PK, I saw you were asking about ‘no recipe’ recipes and it made me think that mine would definitely be chilli … there are a few reasons for this, it is great sharing food, it’s pretty easy to adapt for vegetarian, vegan and gluten free friends and it can also be eaten with rice, in tacos or nachos … here’s my camping kitchen soft taco version tonight from Emu Park in Queensland, Australia.
I don’t want to make out this is anything like authentic Mexican chilli but my versions always have at least kidney beans, tomatoes, capsicum, onion and are seasoned with paprika, cumin and garlic.
Tonight I added beef mince and corn to the chilli and we had fresh mashed avocado, sour cream, cheese, lettuce and tomato to add to our soft tacos.
Selby
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PK Reviews: Beer Can Chicken Roasting Rack
I got this beer can chicken roasting rack from Bunnings for a steal. I used it with a half full can of beer the first time and the result was very pleasing.
Between you and me though, I prefer to skip the beer can and use a lemon instead. The lemon keeps the stuffing inside the chicken, imparts a beautiful citrus aroma and keeps the chicken just as moist.
Check out the result:
Cheers,
PK
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Beer Can Chicken Roasting Rack
I got this beer can chicken roasting rack from Bunnings, for a steal. I used it with a half full can of beer the first time and the result was very pleasing. The rack keeps the chicken vertical, allowing the fat to drip away. The beer keeps the inside of the chicken moist.
Between you and me though, I prefer to skip the beer can and use a lemon instead. The lemon keeps the stuffing inside the chicken, imparts a beautiful citrus aroma and keeps the chicken just as moist.
Check out the result:
Try your favourite dry rub or marinade.
Enjoy,
PK
Here are more chicken dishes and kitchen kit posts:
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