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Smoked Foods

I’ve had a few little smoke ups in FrankenSmoker and I’m starting to get the hang of it. There is a few things to get on top of: What
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FrankenSmoker

For my birthday I received a ‘UFO Cold Smoke Generator‘ – this is a nifty little cold smoke generator that can be attached to any vessel to create
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Blue Vein #2

The Blue Vein cheese is now 1/4 of the way through its ageing (11 days to be precise). It’s developed a nice blue fuzz all over it’s surface.
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Blue Vein #1

Todays cheese is a blue cheese, one of my favourites… Ingredients 10l of non-homogenised fresh milk 0.488g of Flora Danica starter 2 skewer tips (1 drop) of blue
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Pasata 2015

We picked up a box of local roma tomatoes today, $30 for 12kg. After sifting through and pulling out the best ones for salads the rest of the
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Caerphilly

I’m very excited today as I’ll be making a cheese for the first time in ages with the new milk I can get now. I’ve chosen to make
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As the heatwave continues

OK, technically it is not a heatwave as we only got to 34.8 degrees yesterday, rather than the regulation 35 degrees. And the ‘heatwave’ is not actually continuing,
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Almost Christmas

It is almost Christmas and this years bounty has been transformed into Christmas trees… I mean treats. Who doesn’t appreciate home made preserves? Especially in this era of
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