Tag: preserving
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How Do You Make Beef Jerky At Home?
Beef Jerky is a great way to preserve meat. Making it at home you can save money and take control of the ingredients. We have several recipies on the blog for you to try. PK’s Beef Jerky #1 Using corned beef and featuring fennel and coriander seeds, this recipe is great for first timers or…
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How To Steam And Pickle Artichoke Hearts
Artichokes have a mild earthy taste and intriguing texture that pairs well with meat, cheese and crispy vegetables. They are a common occurrence on anitpasti tasting plates and pizza. My preferred method of preparing and preserving artichokes is to steam them and then drowning them in white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar. Steaming the…
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How To Pickle Oyster Mushrooms
If I am not using my mushrooms super fresh I prefer to preserve them. One of my favourite ways is pickling them in apple cider vinegar. Simply clean your mushrooms and put them in a sterilised jar. If you want to keep them down in the vinegar solution you can use a layer of apple…
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How To Dry Oyster Mushrooms
If I am not using my mushrooms super fresh I prefer to dry them. Dried they really transform slow cooked broths, stocks and casseroles. I love Growing Oyster Mushrooms At Home but they go gangbusters from nothing to massive in no time. This means lots of mushrooms in a hurry. If you want to see my fresh…
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PK’s Beef Jerky #2
I use a couple of different recipes for making beef jerky. This is my second recipe and it uses the same marinading, drying and storing techniques as PK’s Beef Jerky Recipe #1. To that end I am only going to keep this post short. I am already drooling 🙂 Note: I use corned beef and…
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PK’s Pickled Eggs
I got a great deal on 24 eggs at the FarmersMarket: Manning – Perth the other day and have been putting them to good use. I wanted to preserve the last dozen or so and turned to a childhood favourite, the humble pickled egg. 🙂 Note: these will last for ages in the fridge unless I am…
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Dried Garlic
A great way to preserve your garlic crop is to dry them. You will get just shy of a tsp of garlic flakes per clove. 🙂 Note: This method is great for drying onions too. See Dried Onions. Simply peel the cloves and then throw them in your dehydrator or on an oven tray. Dry them until…
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Dried Onions
A great way to preserve your onion crop (or in my case a bunch of onions on special) is to dice them and dry them. I quite often freeze onion slices too but I found both my cupboard and freezer devoid of onions 🙂 . Note: This method is great for drying garlic too (see Dried Garlic).…
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PK’s Small Batch Hard Cider
Not much tops a nice cold glass of home made hard apple cider on a hot Perth summers day. In this recipe I use a small 2L fermenting jar with a built in one way airlock. It makes just the right amount to share with a few friends over Sunday lunch. As with my hard…
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5L Demijohn
A demijohn is a large glass flagon that is stoppered with a rubber or plastic bung and an airlock. They are used in the alcoholic fermentation of fruit and the like. They are also called carboys and come in a range of sizes. My one has an old school s-type air bubble lock that after…
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