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Yum! I'm enjoying my homemade lemon butter with a store-bought scone. *embarrassed*, yes I know, I should be making my own scones as well.
Recipe from Our Family Table by Julie Goodwin.
This is an opium knife that I made a couple of years ago, after toying around with a few more complicated ideas I settled with this simple one, three Fatmax Stanley blades taped together with thin card used for spacers, I tried a combination of six blades and four blades, but found three to be more than ample for the job.
Note: not all Papaver somniferum varieties will bleed well, I have found that plants with a large amount of pods, will not produce a single drop of opium if scored, also some of the pharmaceutical types, these poppies are breed for the use of their straw, which goes through a process which extracts the alkaloids, these types of poppies hold a fantastic amount of opium in the dried pods which can be extracted.
Same mower with 20 inch decks on the sides. I didn't use it this way because I found the main motor to be too weak and didn't want to get a bigger one. I used the side decks to give my two deck tow-behind a four deck option which cuts around 96 inches wide.
Another picture of this first design: flickr.com/photos/21702692@N05/2109466421/
To see the current shorter design: flickr.com/photos/21702692@N05/2198454383/
This has to be one of my favourite homemade bakes at the moment.
Trouble is it’s so moorish it does last long!
I made homemade yogurt for the first time! I was so excited to find that it had set this morning.
Only 8 hours in the oven and it was pretty set on top, and the whey was already separating, so I decided to play it safe and put it in the fridge. I think I will drain it once it thickens up a bit. If possible next time I will let it culture for more hours.
A fairly cheap and really easy to use homemade soda water maker. I have CO2 canisters for playing paint ball on hand and wanted to base the kit off of that. These CO2 canisters are pretty cheap to purchase and fill on a local level.
I purchased a cheap "duckbill" ASA adapter for the tank to screw into at a local paint ball store.
At my local Parker (parker.com) distributor purchased the 2 brass fittings, pressure regulator and 120PSI gauge and had a 24" long hose made with stainless steel fittings, the hose is a TFE hose. The regulator came with the gauge. At the end of the hose is a simple ball tire chuck. Teflon tape used where things were screwed together.
My cost minus the CO2 tank because I had it on hand is right at $70, but this could be done for less if one orders the duckbill ASA fitting online, and use a cheaper hose asm. And I've found the same type of pressure regulators with gauges on eBay for under $20.
On the bottle is the adapter cap I made, just a plastic cap with a 1/2" hole drilled into it and a new rubber valve stem pulled though.
To make soda water, simple fill the bottle with COLD water up to about 2" from the top, put on valve stem cap. Set pressure regulator to about 60PSI and charge the water bottle. Shake for 20 seconds then recharge the bottle, shake for another 20 seconds, and then a 3rd charge and shake. Now you have a bottle full of soda water.
The more charge/shakes you do, the stronger it becomes. I've been playing around with the pressures as well but that doesn't seem to matter that much. I've gone as high as 80PSI. The plastic bottles can hold over 100PSI without any problems.
The one "weak point" IMHO is going to be the valve stem cap. I'm planning on making one with a lathe out of aluminum at some point.
Suzy and I made these raviolis from scratch, filled with homemade ricotta and topped with some homemade sauce. YUM!
Rather than paying out lots of money for a warping frame I decided to have a go a making one; the frame is oak and the pegs are hazel (one still missing!). This is it's first warp, a 7m charcoal wool for use with the recycled tweed I unwound the other day.
The design and build of the warping frame is blogged, with full instructions here:
thehessiansack.blogspot.com/2012/02/homemade-warping-fram...
I have also put on Flikr a design for the warping frame (see previous image) and a downloadable pdf of it is available by clicking here
This is my homemade softbox that I constucted out of a cardboard box, toliet paper, construction paper, and tape. Yay!
I make my own ricotta pretty often. It's so easy and for me it's much cheaper than buying it ready made in tubs.
I have finally written a tutorial on how to make your own at Stitch And Boots.
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Well, this was my first attempt at homemade pizza. I made the dough and the pizza sauce and the girls requested just cheese. It came out pretty good and I am looking foward to experimenting with different toppings.
100% homemade: sauce (from homegrown tomatoes & herbs), pasta (local eggs), cheese (homemade 30 min mozzarella & ricotta made with local raw milk). Delicious!
Although dirty and hard to see, this mower has a 25 inch cut with two blades. It has 2 forward speeds and 2 equal backward speeds which drive a differential axle. It was hard to turn without the differential. It is 7 hp with a heavy flywheel. The heavy flywheel allows the blades to have a clutch but I later removed the blade clutch. This mower is plenty strong enough to pull a sulky with one attached part not pictured here. Front wheels are casters but can be locked for going sideways on hills which makes it a lot easier or even possible if the hill is steep.
To see complete front view see: flickr.com/photos/21702692@N05/2126696955/
Concrete pavers in homemade frames. Marble tile corner details and almost ready for oxide colours...
cultured butter. first time.
(is it normal to feel like a superhero after your first time making butter?)
Pulley arrangement. Mower has had some use so it has lost its showroom look. Height adjustment of deck by changing front wheels individually and backside by one movement for both wheels. I usually just move the back which changes it enough.
To see complete front view see: flickr.com/photos/21702692@N05/2126696955/
One of the categories in this month's scavenger hunt is "pickle". I've been wondering what I wanted to shoot. Then I remembered that one of my flickr friends had made homemade refrigerator pickles. So - today I gave it a try! I can't wait to try them! The link for the recipe is on her stream.
Thanks, Cheryl!!
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(265/365) One Hundred more to go!!!