Food Security – A Cautionary Tale
On the unfortunate events of the past week… This past week, pig farmers across the Mid North Coast received some devastating news – our local abattoir, Eversons Food Processors at Frederickton, have decided to stop processing pigs. The icing on the cake – they gave us less than 24 hours’ notice of their final day….
Natural Second Trimester Survival Kit
Yep, I’m writing this post about my favourite things for a natural Second Trimester…. on my due date! Oops. Suffice to say, life has been pretty busy. But I still have loads of useful tips to help you through your second trimester, naturally. If you haven’t read my first Pregnancy Survival Kit post, or if…
Natural First Trimester Survival Kit
It’s all I can talk about, I know – this pregnancy and everything about it, including now the things that got me through a natural first trimester. What is a natural first trimester? Well, part of a natural pregnancy, of course! Which to me means a pregnancy that is as sustainable, organic, healthy, nurturing, and…
Wise fooding choices.
We’re currently on holidays with my sister, who is visiting us from Germany. As such, I will say now that this blog will likely be very neglected over the next week. I wanted to take this time to mention our fooding journey thus far. Mr T has always been a very healthy eater, but recently…
Tea, a drink with Jam and Bread!!!
There’s nothing quite like a cup of organic English Breakfast tea, with some freshly baked bread and piping hot homemade jam! My big Schwester (sister), who relocated to Berlin a year and a half ago, is coming home for a holiday! She arrives on Sunday, and we are all SO EXCITED! I have a thermomix cookbook…
Jam Recipes – thermomix
Strawberry and Vanilla Bean Jam Ingredients: 500g strawberries 1 lemon 250-275g rapadura sugar* 1 vanilla bean Method: 1) Hull the strawberries and put in TM bowl. 2) Finely grate the rind of the lemon, and add to TM bowl. 3) Trim the pith of the lemon (the white bit underneath the skin). Cut the lemon…
Jam Recipes – traditional method
Strawberry and Vanilla Bean Jam Ingredients: 500g strawberries 1 lemon 250-275g rapadura sugar 1 vanilla bean Method: 1) Hull the strawberries and place in a medium-large saucepan. 2) Finely grate the rind of the lemon, and add to saucepan. 3) Trim the pith of the lemon (the white bit underneath the skin). Cut the lemon…
