time for an update

7:56 PM 2013, cheese making, cooking No Comments

Bloosoms the winter so far has been fairly warm and the fist of the buds are out for the Peaches Peach blossoms Nectarines and Apples Apple Blossoms The Apples have never been particularly successful, I am told our "monsoon" weather pattern is the main reason, that is, wet summers and drier winters.  We'll see how they go this year as we've had a wetter than normal, albeit mild winter. Weeds For those interested in edible and useful "weeds" we came across this a few months ago We've...

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and again with the cooking

4:38 PM cheescake, cooking, lemons, sweet potato No Comments

When life hands you lemons, make lemon cheesecake.  There are a couple bush lemon trees on some public land just down the road that are currently full of lemons Using the recipe below it's quite easy Easy Lemon Cheescake Ingredients 397 grams sweetened condensed milk 80 grams butter 300 grams cream cheese 285 ml of thickened cream that's been 1/2 whipped cream 4 large lemons biscuits (crushed for the base) Procedure Take a loose bottomed cake tin, melt butter slowly on stove and add...

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