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June 29, 2008

Challenge update #6

Crikey, with all the rain that's happening lately, it's a wonder I've been motivated to do anything. So, on with the food independence challenge.

Let's see, this week we...

Learnt a new skill and made butter.

I cooked a new meal tonight using some minced sheep I had in the freezer (a family friend culled some wild-organic sheep roaming the back of his property about 6mths ago and we had two sheep in our freezer. However, I couldn't stomach the mince the first time I tried it, but tonight decided to have another go). So made a meatloaf using rice, grated carrot, diced onion, mince, herbs, soya sauce, tomato sauce and an egg. It was tasty and the kids liked it. I will try it again but will add an extra egg since it didn't bind together. A nice easy and cheap meal though. Other meals included homemade vegetarian pizza,

Have put my request in for a 2nd lot of meat for the freezer (I can't call them lamb since they're not, but they are only a bit older than that so not mutton either). We still stick with 2 meat meals a week though.

I've been using my woodburner cooktop to boil pots of veges/rice and water for cups of tea since a cold snap's coming through and meaning the fire's been on more than usual during the day.

I've cut back to 4 cups of tea a day pretty much permanently now - still working on taking it back further though - just sooooo hard with this cold weather when I desire the comfort that my familiar cup of tea brings!

2 comments:

Sandra said...

'Hogget' is the name for sheep meat which is older than lamb but younger than mutton.

Nik said...

Ahhh, Hogget, yes. I also just recalled that they were referred to as "2-tooth", so not sure where that quite features in the age of things.