Friday, June 21, 2013

Suburban keylining

Suburban keylining

- Whats the water doing ?
- multiple flows through the system
- tanks
- total landscape as surface contour
- three dimensional surface area
- variable porosity matrix
- soil system flux,
- biomass storage
- range of possibilities

The block slopes to the left in this picture. The paths are the base of the swale, across the contour and away from the house. The small pond is the overflow from the tanks. the garden beds are level raised.

- nowhere does the water run
- gradient allways used, contemplated

Spent the time and effort to watch and imagine, get out in the storms, dig some holes, 














- subsurface mitigation storage

- effect of and on biomass,
- system complexity

A fence to be., agg pipe in gravel across the slope catches the now sudden large downpours, no longer does water flow like a stream down the drive.







Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Pan baked Yeast Breads



Pan baked Yeast Breads:

- 24cm heavy non stick frying pan with lid, 
- Baking time  45-50 min + 15-20 min
- be creative

Mix water, honey, yeast, flour, salt, spice, add the oil
Make a dough, cover, let prove a bit in a warm place
Kneed a bit, place in buttered pan, let rise  .5-1 hour
Bake on small flame till brown underneath, turn and bake till brown on top 
 
- Wholewheat bread -
550g wheat flour, 1/2-2 tbsp honey, 25g fresh yeast, 390 ml warm water, 1-2 tsp sea salt,
1.5-2 tbsp sunflower or olive oil.  Spice if you like.
 
- 3 grain bread -
250g wheat flour, 250g rye flour, 250g barley flour, 1/2 tbsp honey, 40g fresh yeast, 2tsp sea salt, 
540 warm water, 2 tbsp oil. spice if you like. Baking time  50 min + 20 min.

- Buttermilk bread -
310g whole wheat flour, 310 rye flour, .1/2 tbsp honey, 30g fresh yeast, 1/2-2 tsp sea salt, 
600 ml room temp buttermilk, 2 tbsp oil, (100g sunflower seed). Baking time  50 min + 20 min.

- Wheatgerm bread - best ?
48g wholewheat flour, 70g wheatgerm, 1-2 tbsp honey, 25g fresh yeast, 1-1.5 tsp sea salt,
390 warm milk, 2 tbsp oil. Spice. Baking time  45 min + 15 min.
- replace 1/4 milk with good cream, ground almond for wheatgerm. 
- add chopped nuts seeds or fruit,  spice - cumin ginger and cloves

- Soya bread -
540g whole wheat flour, 90g soya flour, 1/2 tbsp honey, 30g fresh yeast, 1.5-2 tsp sea salt,
480 ml warm water, 2 tbsp oil.
- with 8-10 garlic cloves & onion, chop fry add.

- Rye wheat soya bread -
325g whole wheat flour, 325 rye flour, 50 soya flour, 1/2 tbsp honey, 30g fresh yeast,
150g room temp yogurt, 400 ml water 1-1.5 tsp sea salt, 2 tbsp oil. baking time 50 + 20 min.

- 5 grain bread -
180g whole wheat flour, 180g rye flour, 100g barley meal, 100g oat meal, 50g millet flour,
1/2 tbsp honey, 30g fresh yeast, 1.5-2 tsp sea salt, 450ml warm water,

- Oatmeal bread -
400g whole wheat flour, 200g oatmeal, 50g soya flour, 1 tbsp honey, 30g fresh yeast, 1.5-2 tsp sea salt,
1/2 tsp nutmeg, 235 ml warm water, 235 ml warm milk, 2 tbsp oil.  Baking time  50 min + 20 min.
- with 100g chopped walnuts.  

- Millet bread -
400g whole wheat flour, 200g millet flour, 30g wheatgerm, 45g soya flour, 2 tbsp honey, 30g fresh yeast, 1.5-2 sea salt, 470 ml warm water, 2 tbsp oil, 50g dry toasted sunflower seeds.
- can replace 70ml water with fresh pressed orange juice.  

- Rice flour bread -
450g whole wheat flour, 150g brown rice flour, 60g soya flour,  1/2 tsp honey or molasses,30g fresh yeast, 1.5-2 tsp sea salt, 450 ml warm water , 2 tbsp olive oil. Baking time  50 min + 20 min.
- herbs 150g chopped olives garlic parsley. 

- Maize bread -
150g whole wheat flour, 150g rye flour, 300g maize flour or fine polenta, 60g soy flour,
1-2 tbsp honey, 30g fresh yeast, 1.5-2 tsp sea salt, 270 warm water, 270 ml warm milk, 2 tbsp oil,
1 tsp coriander. Baking time  50 min + 20 min.

- Rye yeast bread -
750g rye flour, 1/2 tbsp honey or molasses, 40g fresh yeast, 2 tsp sea salt, 150g room temp yogurt,
450 ml warm water, 3-5 tsp caraway seed, 2 tbsp oil. Baking time  50 min + 20 min or longer.
- much tastier if let stand to prove overnight.

- Barley buckwheat bread -
470g barley flour, 150g buckwheat flour, 1 tbsp honey, 30g fresh yeast, 1.5-2 tsp sea salt,
600 ml room temp buttermilk, 2 tbsp oil. Baking time  50 min + 20 min.

- Barley soya bread  -
450g barley flour, 150g oat meal, 75g soya flour 1/2 tbsp honey, 30g fresh yeast, 1.5-2 tsp seasalt,
550ml warm water, 2 tbsp oil.  Baking time  50 min + 20 min.

- Current bread -
500g whole wheat flour, 2-3tbsp honey, 25g fresh yeast, 1/4- 1/2 tsp sea salt,1/4- 1/2 tsp cinnamon, cloves, 225 ml apple juice, 225g yogurt or quark, 100g currents, 2 tbsp oil. Baking time 45 min + 15 min.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Appletart with cream



 Cooked a bit to long, better picture next one
 
Bake 15 min mod high to brown base finish on low.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Pan Baked Sourdough Bread


Pan Baked Sourdough Breads:

- Sour dough starter -
1. 60g freshly and little bit coarsely ground rye flour, 1tsp honey, 90 ml water.
Mix, let stand in a covered bowl for 2,3 days untill you see air bubles and smelling sour.
2. Feed, 60g rye flour, bit honey, 90ml warm water. let stand over night.
3. Use required amount of starter for bread, store in fridge, feed the night before using.

The starter will  develop into an active bubbling sweetly sour living thing. 
It will rise with gas when fed and collapse when hungry.
Feed it often. Live.

-  Rye wheat sourdough bread -
Step 1. 400g ryeflour, 1/2tbsp honey, 150g sourdough starter, 435 ml warm water
Put ingredients in a bowl and mix, cover with moist cloth put in plastic bag,
let stand 5-10 hours until you see air bubbles. dependent on temp
Step 2.  300g wholewheat flour, 1.5 -2 tsp sea salt, 2 tbsp oil, spice how you like.
Mix all ingredients into dough, rest 20 minutes, kneed, put in pan and let stand 1 - 2 hours till dough raised up. overnight when cool.
Bake on a small flame till brown underneath, 50 min, turn 20 min 

- Wholemeal bread -
1. 450g coarsly ground ryeflour,  1/2tbsp honey, 150g sourdough starter, 495 ml warm water.
2. 300g coarsely ground wholewheat flour, 1-1/2-2 tsp sea salt, 2 tbsp oil, spice how you like.
Bake  on a small flame till brown underneath, 50 min, turn 20 min

- Linseed bread -
1. 400g ryeflour, 1/2tbsp honey, 150g sourdough starter, 435 ml warm water
Soak 100g of linseed in hot water
2. 300g wholewheat flour, 1.5 -2 tsp seasalt, 2 tbsp oil, soaked linseed. spice how you like.

- Sourdough bread with whole grains -
1. 550 g coarsely ground rye flour, 1/2 tbsp honey, 120g sourdough starter, 380ml warm water.
soak 150g wholegrains in 150 ml cooking water.
2. 50g rye flour, 200g wheat flour, 1.5-2 tsp sea salt, 2 tbsp oil, spice how you like.

- Plain rye sourdough bread -
1. 450g  rye flour,  1/2tbsp honey or molasses , 150g sourdough starter, 450 ml warm water.
2. 300g rye flour, 2 tsp sea salt, 2 tbsp oil, 1tbsp each ground coriander and caraway, 1tsp each ground aniseed and fennel seeds.

- Rye soya sourdough bread -
1. 400g ryeflour, 1/2tbsp honey, 150g sourdough starter, 450 ml warm water.
2. 230g ryeflour, 70g soya flour, 2 tsp sea salt, 2tbsp oil.

- Sourdough buckwheat bread -
1. 400g  rye flour,  1/2tbsp honey or molasses , 150g sourdough starter, 440 ml warm water.
2. 150g rye flour, 150g buckwheat flour, 1.5-2 tsp sea salt, 2 tbsp oil

- Sourdough barley bread -
1. 450g ryeflour, 1/2tbsp honey, 150g sourdough starter, 485 ml warm water.
2. 50g ryeflour, 250g barley meal, 2 tsp sea salt, 2tbsp oil.

- Sourdough bread with cooked grains -
1. 350g ryeflour, 1/2tbsp honey, 120g sourdough starter, 370 ml warm water.
cook150g wholegrain, rice or barley in 300 ml water and let it stand.
2. 50g ryeflour, 200g barly meal, the cooked grains, 2 tsp sea salt, 2tbsp oil.

- Sourdough buttermilk bread -
1. 400g ryeflour, 1/2tbsp honey, 150g sourdough starter, 570 -580 ml room temp buttermilk
2. 100g ryeflour, 250g rolled rye, 100g sunflower seeds 2 tsp sea salt, 2tbsp oil. 2 tsp ground coriander

- Sourdough yoghurt bread -
1. 400g ryeflour, 1/2tbsp honey, 150g sourdough starter, 120g room temp yogurt, 350 ml warm water.
2. 100g oatmeal, 250g rolled barley, 2 tsp sea salt, 2tbsp oil.

- Rye raisin bread -
1. 300g ryeflour, 2-3tbsp honey, 100g sourdough starter, 125g room temp light sour cream, 270 ml warm water.
2. 200g ryeflour, 1.5-2 tsp sea salt, 2tbsp oil, .5tsp each cinnamon, ginger, .5 tsp aniseed, 120g raisins or sultanas

- Steamed bread -
Use a sixth part less water, kneed the dough a bit, form small balls or loaves and let it rise, heat the pan with butter or ghee and a bit of salt, fry for 4-5 min, half cover with water, cover pan and cook till water is away, reduce heat and bake till brown underneath.


Note - work the recipe, be creative.
guten Appetit





Thursday, June 6, 2013

Spicy Pear Medlar Cheese Chocolate cake

Spicy Pear Medlar Cheese Chocolate cake with Almond shortcrust pastry base:


Base - 24 cm pane -
Fresh flour 100g. Ground almond 40g. Butter 45 g,
Honey 40 – 60g. Cream 65g
Spice, ground cinnamon, cloves, ginger.

Filling
Ground almond 40g optional. Chocolate 250g+  best non sweet 70%+
Flour 40g. Cream cheese 200g. Cream 200. Eggs 2. Medlar syrup 150 ml.
Pears 1 ½. Honey 20g sweeten as you like ?
Spice as you like, more yes. (?vanilla?)

Topping
Medlar syrup 150 ml. Honey 40-60g?.
Butter 40g?. Cream 35g. Pear 1. 
Spice, Cloves 8-12, ginger ¼ tsp, Cinnamon¼ tsp

Base Work flour, almonds, spice, soft butter in a into a crumbly mass, mix in honey and cream.
keep pastry cool in fridge, 30min ,,,,.

Filling Cut and cook Pears in spice, honey and Medlar syrup, simmer till soft in thick reduced syrup. 
Melt chocolate over hot water, slowly mix in most of the cream.
Beet eggs a bit, with the rest of cream and add to softened cream cheese.
Mix chocolate cream, pears syrup, creamy egg cheese, flour. 
 
,,,,Butter the pan. Knead pastry a bit, spread in pan and make edge half way up (cold hands help), dust with ground almond. Put filling into base, place pear slices in a radial paten on top skin up.
Cook: - 15min high for base, then 30 – 40min low.

Topping Simmer sliced pear in 150g Medlar syrup honey & spice, reduce.
Cool a bit, add butter cream, heat & slowly reduce, stirring constantly, caramelise a bit.
besten am nächsten Tag  
guten Appetit

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Husband this Earth

Be mindfull! Husband the Earth. Protect her from greed and violence. Build humbly, plant trees, grow flowers and cloth her with dignity. Respect all her creatures.
Honer her natural laws & the universe witch cradles her.
Above all Hartley worship the source of all that is.
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This world needs secret heroes!
Be brave, speak the truth, heal the sick, make peace, be strong, serve patiently. love generously, live simply, enjoy fellowship, eat & drink modestly,
celebrate the festivals.
Breath deeply, sing & make music, walk often, cycle & recycle.
Be thrifty, prefer cash flow to possessions, and give good measure.
let your work be your prayer.
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Put on the whole Armour of light!
Unearth the beauty in everything. Inhale the spirit of goodness.
Kindle kindness, especially towards yourself.
Embrace the sweet silence of your own soul.
Fear nothing, Accept what you are & while you have breath.
Give thanks.

unknown author

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

A Red Wattlebird

Wattlebird feeding on aphids
The Wattle bird.

Complexity evolves and crashes like waves on the shore.
Life.
Cheeky, territorial, interactive mother of her hood.
She is gone now, deep grief and sadness.
We have had a beautiful relationship over a number of years,  I did not relies the complexity or the benefits she provided till the hawk hit the garden,, She is gone now.

About 5 years ago shortly before my first harvest of boysenberries,  I was interacting with this bird, I pledged to care for her space and provide her with food, that she could have one side of the bush and I would have the other. She honored this and told me off when I crossed the line and hit the berries on her side. I watched her fledged young ones over the years. She would come out whenever I was in the garden, have a chat then of to her life. There was an alliance with the peewee blackbird and butcher bird, They kept all the parrots at bay but two and most of the Indian miners away. home patch for this group.

She is gone now, The Indian miners are having a field day, (Bastards) . The parrots hit the blackberries taking the bulk before I realised and resorted to nets.

If only Id been more aware and in the moment ?

I feel deep sadness for the embedded knowledge and care within living community we have lost and continue to loose without any awareness. Interacting with this earth on her terms requires deep loving  knowledge and  awareness.
Re Member


Friday, January 4, 2013

HAWK - ON HUSBANDING THE EARTH

The hawk in a tree across the road with a my friend

- A NOTE ON HUSBANDING THE EARTH -

Deep ecology, I am a conscious heart. well try to be..
Husbanding the earth, I missed it, got distracted and lost a yield.
I’ve just had my blackberries crop ripen, its been hit by the parrots, three days 80%, nets to late.
Last year I had a couple of wattle birds that kept them away, No nets, high yeild.
I have been encouraging the resident birds, their fun to interact with. They don’t eat much and keep a lot of the other bird at bay,. I listen to their songs and try to understand their way.

A hawk came into my garden a couple of weeks ago, over two days it hit the residents.
I didn’t realise what was happening until it was to late. I saw a pewee telling something of, I went to have a look at the disturbance. At first it looked like a cat fleeing till it went vertical, fast and highly maneuverable through the branches, It had left a carcase of a bird. The hawk was next cited on the tv antenna on the roof with three other different agitated resident birds making a lot noise, It then flew of. I again saw it in the tree across the road with a bird carcase in its clutches.. The other carcass was still on the ground. Two resident birds taken. I believe their were a pair of hawks, They have children as well.

The next day I saw the black bird making a strange tweet tweet sound on a branch, there was a hawk on the branch above it. I intervened, the blackbird is friendlier since..
If I had been more aware in a society that was more aware, maybe I would know the right way in the moment,, and have no need for nets or fences.

She simply has a family to feed.  Ecology is a delicate balance, it takes all our combined awareness intelligence to interact in a positive constructive way. 

Interacting with this earth on her terms requires deep loving  knowledge and awareness.
Can we open our eyes to see, Can we hear to listen, can we feel...
And touch with a mindful caress.