Jan-21-2011, 02:51 AM (UTC)
I have ordered a cheese-making kit and am really looking forward to getting stuck into making some hard cheeses with our surplus milk. It's something I've always wanted to do. Next stop, bee hives! 
Not sure if I've ever mentioned it but we have at least two male employees (jackeroos) who work here with us throughout the year and I cook all meals for them as well as our family. The men live a short distance from our house in the "Men's Quarters". At other busy times, such as during mustering, there can be up to twelve extra men to cook for.
With this in mind, I usually bake every day but have been baking double and triple the last couple of weeks, and freezing the extra batches, to try and get organised for the rapidly arriving school year when things get especially busy when I am in the schoolroom. Like beef, hamburgers etc I don't often buy shop-bought items for smoko (morning tea) either.
Here's my favourite chocolate icing recipe which, in my recipe book, I have dubbed "The Best Chocolate Icing Ever"...very simple, very easy, can freeze well and lasts being out in the middle of a hot paddock in a tuckerbox:
Place 2 1/2 cups of icing sugar (I think people from the US call it powdered sugar?), 1/2 cup cocoa and 100g of soft butter into a small bowl. Beat together well and then add 4 to 6 tablespoons of boiling water to give a soft spreading consistency. That's it - yum!!!
Not sure if I've ever mentioned it but we have at least two male employees (jackeroos) who work here with us throughout the year and I cook all meals for them as well as our family. The men live a short distance from our house in the "Men's Quarters". At other busy times, such as during mustering, there can be up to twelve extra men to cook for.
With this in mind, I usually bake every day but have been baking double and triple the last couple of weeks, and freezing the extra batches, to try and get organised for the rapidly arriving school year when things get especially busy when I am in the schoolroom. Like beef, hamburgers etc I don't often buy shop-bought items for smoko (morning tea) either.
Here's my favourite chocolate icing recipe which, in my recipe book, I have dubbed "The Best Chocolate Icing Ever"...very simple, very easy, can freeze well and lasts being out in the middle of a hot paddock in a tuckerbox:
Place 2 1/2 cups of icing sugar (I think people from the US call it powdered sugar?), 1/2 cup cocoa and 100g of soft butter into a small bowl. Beat together well and then add 4 to 6 tablespoons of boiling water to give a soft spreading consistency. That's it - yum!!!
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