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Yogurt Pancakes Super Quick Easy Delicious

Yogurt Pancakes Super Quick Easy Delicious

3 eggs
3 tablespoon natural Greek yogurt
3 tablespoon wholemeal
little dash of salt
good dash of baking soda

Combine all ingredients with a whisk or fork. Fry in some olive oil on medium heat for a couple of minutes on both sides until gold.

Enjoy with marmalade, icing sugar or maple syrup on top :)

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Christmas Stollen Quick And Easy

Crumbly, moist and delicious. Exactly as it should be. There are many recipes for the traditional German Christmas stollen depends on the region it comes from and some of them require you to store the stollen for many weeks before you can try it. This recipe is for impatient people like me with little time for baking. Try it and you will love it!

Christmas Stollen Quick And Easy

Set the oven on 250°C on upper and lower heat.

Ingredients:

500g wholemeal
1tsp baking powder
1 dash salt
1tsp rum flavor
1/2 (half)tsp almond flavor
1 fresh and clean lime or lemon cut into smallest pieces including skin!
2 eggs
150g whole almond meal (fresh grind are the best)
175g raw sugar
175g warm (soft) butter
1 dash nutmeg
1/2 (half) tsp vanilla flavor
250g quark (I always take cottage cheese and blend it smooth)
250g raisins or sultanas
1tsp orange zest

Combine all ingredients into nice and smooth dough. Cut in half and form two nice loafs. Please on a baking paper on baking tray or into two baking forms. Turn the oven temperature down to 170°C and bake for about 60 minutes. Take out of the oven when ready, coat immediately with 50g melted butter and thick layer of pure icing sugar on top. Leave on the kitchen bench until cold, then wrap in an aluminum foil and leave over night. Enjoy!

Growing Armenian Cucumber And How They Taste

Also known as 'Yard Long Cucumber'. Light-green, ribbed, cylindrical fruit 20-60cm. Thin, soft skin, so no need for peeling. Best results when grown on trellis. Armenian cucumber plants prefer to grow in full sun for most of the day. The fruit is most flavorful when it is 12 to 15 inches (30 to 38 cm) long. Grows quickly. This cucumber is actually a melon, but is grown & eaten like a cucumber.
It is the very first time for me to grow and taste the Armenian Cucumber. I am very amazed with this plant and I will add it to my list of regularly grown annuals in our food forest.

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Sauerpawpaw NOT Sauerkraut Part 2 of 2 - Fermenting Green Pawpaw Papaya ...

Easy to prepare, delicious and super healthy. For the first part, check this link: https://youtu.be/BJHwSw1UUl8

Clean your hands and nails before you start to do it. I better say it here at the beginning :)

Sauerpawpaw Fermented Pawpaw Papaya The Recipe:

1. Green pawpaw or papaya, skinned, cleaned and shredded on the largest holes of your shredder
2. Salt, 1 flat tablespoon per 1 kg shredded pawpaw
3. Garlic, cleaned and chopped or shredded on the smallest holes of your shredder.

Mix shredded pawpaw with salt and garlic in a large plastic bowl while pressing and squeezing it with each move with your hands. Press to the bottom of the bowl and leave covered for about 30 minutes. Move and press it into a fermenting jar firmly so the entire juice stays on top of the jar. You should have enough juice to cover the shredded pawpaw in the jar. If not, boil one cup of water with one teaspoon of jar, cool down and add to the jar.

Important: No pawpaw pieces should float on top. All your fermenting veggies should always be kept under the juice so they have no air contact.The best is to cover the pawpaw with some clean cabbage or kale leaves. I have once kept it under the fluid with some celery sticks. it works as well!

Let it ferment until ready. It takes about 10-14 days. Keep in fridge from then. Enjoy!

DIY The Best Natural Organic Fertilizer And How To Use It

Once you started to use this fertilizer, you will be amazed about the result! Especially if you don't have the best and richest soil or you just started with growing veggies, this simple and natural fertilizer will help you to grow the best, strong and healthy veggies.

Tips:

Important! Never put any manure on top of the soil. The manure, especially if not composted long enough, may contain bacteria and pathogens that are harmful to humans, such as salmonella and E. coli. If you put the manure on top of the soil, your plants and produce may get contaminated and you may get sick. The roots need it, not the top of the plant.
The tub where you prepare your fertilizer needs to be water tight so no water can get in or out.
Place the tub in a far corner of your garden where you usually don't sit. It might smell at the beginning if the lid is not 100% air-tight.
Once you start use this fertilizer, you will be amazed about the result.

How To Build An Instant Basic Raised Veggie Patch or Garden Bed

Basic, simple and you can plant your veggies straight away! This raised veggie patch is what I have already done many times and its working great!

Sauerpawpaw NOT Sauerkraut - Fermenting Green Pawpaw Papaya First Attempt

How To Build A Simple Mesh Greenhouse

This video shows how we have built our mesh greenhouse from scratch. To build it, we have used the following materials:
5 slippers 3m x 250mm x 50mm (for the veggie patch walls/edges inside the greenhouse
22 pcs size 4.80m x 70mm x 35mm (for the frames)
12 pcs size 4.8m x 100mm x 12mm (for the veggie patch walls/edges attached to the frame and outside where these two different nets meet.
The net is a High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). HDPE is used to make bottles for fruit juice, milk, water and kitchen cleansing products, 50 mesh 80 GSM so totally save for growing veggies. If you are in Australia, you can contact me if you want to buy this mesh.

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Green Pawpaw Pickles

Delicious snack, great as a side dish or on a sandwich. Very healthy as an entree. This pickles should are simply something super special. Try it and you will love it straight away :) I will make a video soon of all the steps how I do it but in the meantime, here is the recipe :)

Green Pawpaw Pickles

2 kg green pawpaw, cleaned and grated on the largest holes of the grater
1/4 cup salt

1. Combine, cover the bowl and leave in the fridge over night.

2. On the next day, place in a cheese cloth or clean tea towel, rinse under clean water and squeeze to get as much fluid out as possible and move back into large bowl. Spread 2 tbsp whole pepper and put aside.

3. Bring to boil 3 cups of vinegar with 1.5 tsp salt and 1.5 cups raw sugar. Put aside.

4. Clean, grate and add to the prepared pawpaw:

2 carrots
2-3 large fresh turmeric fingers
1 ginger knob
1 capsicum (optional)

and

2 large onions, red or white, cut thinly lengthwise
10 cloves garlic, cut into slices
chilies (I leave the amount of chilies up to you), cut into thin strips

5. Combine all ingredients except the vinegar brine.

6. Move the veggie mix into clean and sterilized jars

7. Pour in the cool vinegar brine and seal the jars.

8. Leave in a fridge for at least 5 days before serving.

9. Enjoy!

You can keep it in fridge up to 2 months.
ENJOY!

If you want to see how I sterilize the jars, see this video here:

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Potato Rosti Pancakes With Mushrooms On Fire Step By Step

Potato Rosti Pancakes With Mushrooms Recipe

For the potato rosti or pancakes you need:

Grated potatoes, one onion, couple of eggs, salt, pepper. Combine all together and set aside for later.

For the mushroom sauce you need:

butter, onion, mushrooms, soy sauce, paprika powder, salt, pepper, pure sour cream (the pure sour cream without any gelatin and co. in it is the best, btw it is the cheapest one at our supermarket), some fresh parsley

Watch the video how its done and enjoy!