Month: June 2015

Cheshire Cheese - Waxed and in the cheese cave

Cheshire Cheese #2

fraser | June 28, 2015

Following on from Cheshire Cheese #1. The cheese has progressed nicely. it has been pressed for two days then allowed to dry. Now it’s time to wax it.

Cheese

Cheshire Cheese #1

fraser | June 23, 2015

Todays cheese is Cheshire cheese. I have never made it before so this is a bit of a trial. It has a very long ‘cooking’ time after the

Smoker

Ham #1

fraser | June 22, 2015

Going to make some ham. Picked up half a leg (~3kg) (the ‘butt-half’ as the Americans would call it) from one of our friendly butchers. It was deboned

Cheese

Pepato

fraser | June 21, 2015

I was recently reading a “the Little Green Cheesemakers” post in which they had opened up a Pepato cheese after aging it for 17 months. This was pretty relevant to

Cheese

Milk for Cheese Making in Mudgee #3

fraser | June 19, 2015

For one reason or another getting fresh milk has been a bit troubled lately, hence the cheese making slowdown. Buts it’s all sorted now and we are back

Smoker

Bacon #3

fraser | June 17, 2015

Well the bacon worked out just fine. I think next time I’ll try a “Canadian” bacon -which is just the loin without any fat or skin.

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Bacon #2

fraser | June 15, 2015

Update on the bacon: After two weeks of curing the loin has now cured all the way through and looks a lot like bacon! Interestingly the cure has

Orchid

Inland Mosquito Orchid

fraser | June 13, 2015

We found a great little patch of Inland Mosquito Orchids (Acianthus Collinus) on one of our walks today. These tiny orchids flower in winter and grow in a

Smoker

Smoked Salmon

fraser | June 10, 2015

We went into ALDI yesterday and found sides of salmon (Tassie farmed) for a good price, so we got some so we could smoke them up and store

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Bacon #1

fraser | June 3, 2015

I’m having a go at making bacon. This is a bit trickier than the other smoked goods I have been making as bacon is cold smoked (and therefore

The Outside World

We are on the NBN!

fraser | June 2, 2015

After years of waiting it’s finally happened! Ross (our local NBN technician) came out this morning and installed the hardware for the NBN Wireless and it is good

Smoker

Smoked Foods

fraser | June 2, 2015

I’ve had a few little smoke ups in FrankenSmoker and I’m starting to get the hang of it. There is a few things to get on top of: What