Tag Archives: kitchen
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Preparing that slow goat stew
15Saturday 23 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
I was asked by Janey In Mersin (an Aussie expat in southern Turkey) about my method of creating that slow-cooked …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Very very slow cooked goat
8Wednesday 20 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Circle (II)
4Saturday 02 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second Weekly Photo Challenge entry are simple 2D circles representing 3D spheres, namely, some juicy green apples. Hope you …
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Broad bean leaf salad
19Thursday 30 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I’m busy tomorrow, so scheduling in advance. This was gonna be about my roses again, but feeling rather peckish…. And …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh (II)
10Saturday 21 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken during one of my ‘juicing’ sessions, when I extract …
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Homemade Bread
12Saturday 14 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I have no home phone or internet this weekend, thanks to a nine hour storm that knocked out the local …
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Juice Time
5Sunday 04 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
With fruit hanging off every tree in sight, we are rarely short of fruit juice, that’s for sure. Never do …
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Table Olives – Salt Cured (part 2)
6Thursday 04 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In a previous post, we got as far as preparing table olives by layering them with salt in a large tub …
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Table Olives – Salt Cured (part 1)
11Saturday 29 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In some previous posts, we looked at how olives for table use are cured using water, salted, and then preserved in …
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Table Olives – Water Cured (part 2)
11Tuesday 25 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In a previous post, we got as far as preparing table olives by soaking them in water. Now we continue the …
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Table Olives – Water Cured (part 1)
6Saturday 22 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In a previous post, we looked at how olives for table use, rather than oil production, are picked, sorted and prepared. …
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Table Olives – Picking & Sorting
19Sunday 16 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
. Picking olives for oil production is one thing, but for table olives, that is, the ones you want to …
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How to make Turkish Coffee
32Thursday 30 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Hands up, how many of you have been to Turkey? Ok, so not many. All right, how many have had …
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Homemade Pasta Sauce
28Sunday 12 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Another of the end-of-summer jobs each year is to make our annual stock of tomato based pasta sauce. To be …
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Grape Concentrate
10Saturday 04 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
One of the end-of-summer jobs each year is to make use of the late grape harvest. We have a vine …
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Hello Basil!
19Friday 01 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Every summer I grow a patch of black basil for drying. . . Which ends up spread across the guest …
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