Food, Fat, Cooking & Fermenting
In this section I want to share some food ideas that you may not come across very often. Some recipes maybe your grandparents knew about but your parents weren't interested in because they were too busy smoking weed at hippie festivals to be concerned about cooking.

So Gen X & Y, go visit your grans now and get them to tell you the secrets of a good healthy life because God knows, those baby-boomers taught you how to be selfish and reckless but never bothered with the things that really nourish you. Sure they love their vitamin pills, but you know very well that your grandparents could beat your parents in an arm-wrestle any day!

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 One is a Devondale butter probably sourced from Leongatha. Cows are generally raised free-range on conventional farms here, but certainly supplemented huge quantities of grain, lollies...

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Today I plan to eat an animal for the first time. Well not really the first time, but the first animal I have eaten in a long time. I do eat meat, I love meat, but eating meat is...

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 When you buy ten litres of blackmarket milk for $7.50, it is nice to use all of it.Ever since acquiring the cream separator, my thoughts have been swirling around what to do with 9...

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  Yesterday, it arrived, my beautiful new toy, shiny and red, looking more like a polished antique than brand new!This is a toy that was popular in the late nineteenth century, but...

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Gordon: Welcome to the segment Mr Habilus Mr Habilus: GrrmphAs my honoured guest is not so proficient in English, perhaps I will just transcribe this. I am very honoured indeed to bring...

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  Finally found some milk while I await for my goats to start producing. I actually can now source raw milk cheap enough to make cheese making worthwhile.Now this is my first cheese,...

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One of the most impressive food features of New Zealand is the Fresh Mussels. Something that is hard to find in Australia. Sure we get pickled mussels but the fresh mussel dispensers...

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 Asparagus has arrived, if it wasn't for asparagus what food would define Spring? maybe strawberries, but somehow I sort of think of summer for strawberries.Asparagus is so wonderful,...

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So you have a cupboard full of pickled vegetables? well done. You have by now scoffed down a whole jar of sauerkraut and were about to throw out the pickle water and start again - well...

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We can all remember the days when eggs were bad for us, they were poison capsules of cholesterol. Well those chooks sure got their marketing together, and managed to convince all the...

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Back when I lived on the other island, (No not that one, the one in the West!) there was an advertisement for Uncle Tobies porridge. This really scottish kid with an over the top scottish...

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I have a freudian fixation for breasts like most men in this world. Apparently it goes back to being a baby and remembering the wonderful nourishment from our mothers fun bags. Oh my ...

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Here is a classic food that helped transport people around the world without getting scurvy, put simply it is fermented cabbage, or more commonly known as sauerkraut.Sauerkraut is a ...