Here I am day two.... I made custom small beef balls and froze them for use later...
I thought to grab some of these precooked beefy goodness and add some greens and call it a victory?
Gourmet Daughter Verdict: This is plain and not tasty! I'll eat a little but....
So I quickly changed tact and came up with the following beef and breed!
What you will need:
Pre-cooked beef
1/2 a tomato
Dried oregano
Peas
Sourdough bread
1. Toast bread
2. In a pan (Stainless Steal, don't use cast iron the acidity will strip the coating on cast iron) add beef, tomato, peas and dried oregano, add some water to loosen it all up and cook through for 2-3 mins.
3. Chop up bread into baby fist size chunks
4. Add bread to mix, it should absorb all the liquid in the pot and beef should stick to the bread. Peas will be seperate and baby will pick them up.
Gourmet Daughter Verdict: Much better. Yum yum yum
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Baby food day 1 - tuna and hummus
It has been a long time, maybe even year(s) since the last post but now I feel it is time to write.
Our lovely daughter has decided overnight to reject all baby food and wants to feed herself. This proposes a number of challenges...
I'm looking after her for the next two weeks and coming up with recipies which our gourmet of a daughter accepts.
Today's is Tuna and Hummus. A take on the american classic of Tuna and Mayo. This is healthier and a bit more bite to it! :) Just mix in a bowel tuna and hummus still you can form it solid and little hands can pick it up. Easy!
Daughters reaction "Love this stuff!"
Our lovely daughter has decided overnight to reject all baby food and wants to feed herself. This proposes a number of challenges...
I'm looking after her for the next two weeks and coming up with recipies which our gourmet of a daughter accepts.
Today's is Tuna and Hummus. A take on the american classic of Tuna and Mayo. This is healthier and a bit more bite to it! :) Just mix in a bowel tuna and hummus still you can form it solid and little hands can pick it up. Easy!
Daughters reaction "Love this stuff!"
Thursday, October 27, 2011
How to pour an over carbonated beer
Here is a short video on the best way I have found to poor a beer which is over carbonated.
This is a American Style Dark IPA (Cascadia Dark Ale) which is over a year old now and damn damn tasty.
A side note while you watch the video if you get bored....
I was reading about seaweed (of course I was right?) and it turns out that seaweed improves with age as long as it is stored properly. "becoming sweeter as complex carbohydrates fragment to simple sugars, and meatier as proteins fragment to amino acids." Very interesting. This would apply to many things... Something to think about.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
American Boot to the Head - Failure or Fantastic?
Some of you might know my friends Eric and Adge from the States came over for a visit. While here Eric helped me brew up an American Style Pale Ale
The brew went great until the end. As some of my more avid readers out there will know, what do you mean there are not avid readers? Okay if you go back and read my old posts you'll see I have been getting brewing plumbing parts to help progress further... Anyhow, I had never used these before and most of them worked fantastically... Until the end
The whirlpool and side pickup to remove the wort from the kettle got blocked by the fresh hops and drastic measures were taken.
Infection was very high on the list to say the least....................
The fermentation kicked off fine and I left it for a solid 2 weeks + a few days for good measure.
I bottled all 30 some odd bottles with mixed feelings. That contamination at the end... I was worried...
Waiting a week I cracked on open just as a taste test, carbonation wasn't in full swing because I keep mine at a lower temp to get a finer bubble. Technical stuff aside I didn't expect any carbonation (This is important trust me you louts). What I got was the following
On the nose:
Banana
Sweet malt
A sure sign of contamination!
Taste:
Bitter and sweet
Malty but leaning towards the mild side
CARBONATION
My fears were confirmed. The whole batch was ruined!
However, I am ever the optimist. I let them sit for another 3 weeks just in case I was crazy. During those three weeks I organised all the beer being aged and this weekend I went out and saw something odd. One of the Session Pale Ale's had crap in the neck of the bottle. Inspecting others I found the same scattered through my collection.
Problem? Damn Woolworth's shitty caps and maybe my caper which is an old one handed down to me from Peter (Kasey's dad). Ultimately it's my fault for being slack and getting crappy caps at woolies. Damn them though!
So throwing two into the fridge I did a blind tasting on Kasey not telling her I thought the batch was infected (How nice am I?!) and she came back with
Lightly malty, Quite bitter but nice
I thought to myself... She is being nice this can't be right.... So I tried it and combining her notes and mine
On the nose:
Light malt, hint of hops
Taste:
Very bitter (Astringency )
Lightly malty flavor
Tasty!
More of the floral hops would have been nicer but this but since we didn't dry hop all our aroma would have come from the last 5 minutes on the brew and with all the screwing around at the end I think the temp was too high for too long before we could start cooling.
Still nice beer :)
For some of you who have made it this far down the screen, I have been testing my beers on anyone and everyone and to date we have two winners. One I think would fit in with Australia now and one which might take 5 years before its ready to hit the market.
Session Pale Ale 2 is a big hit
Eric Killer 2: Oil Barrel now to be named Oil Barrel because it didn't kill Eric (Sorry Adge, life insurance will have to come in another way).
Both are hoppy fantastic but Oil Barrel takes a hop head to suck it down and go back for a second.
Over and out!
The brew went great until the end. As some of my more avid readers out there will know, what do you mean there are not avid readers? Okay if you go back and read my old posts you'll see I have been getting brewing plumbing parts to help progress further... Anyhow, I had never used these before and most of them worked fantastically... Until the end
The whirlpool and side pickup to remove the wort from the kettle got blocked by the fresh hops and drastic measures were taken.
Infection was very high on the list to say the least....................
The fermentation kicked off fine and I left it for a solid 2 weeks + a few days for good measure.
I bottled all 30 some odd bottles with mixed feelings. That contamination at the end... I was worried...
Waiting a week I cracked on open just as a taste test, carbonation wasn't in full swing because I keep mine at a lower temp to get a finer bubble. Technical stuff aside I didn't expect any carbonation (This is important trust me you louts). What I got was the following
On the nose:
Banana
Sweet malt
A sure sign of contamination!
Taste:
Bitter and sweet
Malty but leaning towards the mild side
CARBONATION
My fears were confirmed. The whole batch was ruined!
However, I am ever the optimist. I let them sit for another 3 weeks just in case I was crazy. During those three weeks I organised all the beer being aged and this weekend I went out and saw something odd. One of the Session Pale Ale's had crap in the neck of the bottle. Inspecting others I found the same scattered through my collection.
Problem? Damn Woolworth's shitty caps and maybe my caper which is an old one handed down to me from Peter (Kasey's dad). Ultimately it's my fault for being slack and getting crappy caps at woolies. Damn them though!
So throwing two into the fridge I did a blind tasting on Kasey not telling her I thought the batch was infected (How nice am I?!) and she came back with
Lightly malty, Quite bitter but nice
I thought to myself... She is being nice this can't be right.... So I tried it and combining her notes and mine
On the nose:
Light malt, hint of hops
Taste:
Very bitter (Astringency )
Lightly malty flavor
Tasty!
More of the floral hops would have been nicer but this but since we didn't dry hop all our aroma would have come from the last 5 minutes on the brew and with all the screwing around at the end I think the temp was too high for too long before we could start cooling.
Still nice beer :)
For some of you who have made it this far down the screen, I have been testing my beers on anyone and everyone and to date we have two winners. One I think would fit in with Australia now and one which might take 5 years before its ready to hit the market.
Session Pale Ale 2 is a big hit
Eric Killer 2: Oil Barrel now to be named Oil Barrel because it didn't kill Eric (Sorry Adge, life insurance will have to come in another way).
Both are hoppy fantastic but Oil Barrel takes a hop head to suck it down and go back for a second.
Over and out!
Solar USB Charger - Results
I'll keep this short and sweet :)
I have put all the components into a case and done a days testing in the patchy cloudy day.
Full sun - 4.7 volts @ 197 milliamp WOOT!
Part shade - 4.7 volts @ 50-90 milliamp less woot
Shade - 2 - 4.7 volts @ 10 or less milliamp. Not worth mentioning
The charger hasn't done the 2000mA battery full but I tested my mp3 player and my mobile phone both were very happy to charge off it.
Phone reported 130mA coming through the charger (Android phones rock)
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