Tag: food preservation

• Steamy goodness

  

  A multifunction kitchen device that let’s you use spoilt fruit.

  ligayagardener

  February 8, 2021

  Kitchen, preserving

  food preservation, harvest, Kitchen, preservation & storage, sterilization

• Our first Sultanas

  

  Our first ever Sultanas are dried and ready to eat. The vine covers much of the Southern end of the block and, along with the Olive trees, provides a windbreak for us and some shade for next door. This year, I’ve been training it to cover the rain tanks as well so that that water…

  ligayagardener

  February 1, 2021

  Gardening, Kitchen, preserving

  climate control, food preservation, Grapes, harvest, Kitchen, multiple functions, obtain a yield, sultanas, sun dried

• I’ve taken up smoking!

  Not the evil cigarette kind of smoking, but the kind that gives food a great taste. For my first try, I overfilled the fuel, added too many woodchips and forgot to open the vent. But, after smoking out the house (is that really a bad thing?) I got it back all under control with only…

  ligayagardener

  August 7, 2019

  Gardening

  cooking, food preservation, garlic, smoking, Sustainability

• Hanging it out to dry.

  Some extra citrus drying on a 34 degree day. I will try to dry as much stuff as I can over summer, using solar and wind power iinstead of the food dehydrator. I’ll keep that for winter when it can do double duty and heat the house a little. I got the drying rack from…

  ligayagardener

  October 15, 2015

  Gardening

  citrus, drying citrus, food dehydration, food drying, food preservation, Solar, suburban resilience, Sustainability, wind