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Post by mamamia on Jan 10, 2008 13:08:45 GMT 12
Tonight I will make some icecream with the raspberries. It is so easy and so delecious: Fresh raspberries (stored in the fridge for a while that they are cool) cream (cool) raw sugar I put all the ingredients in the food processor and then in the icecream maker. It takes about an hour and this delicious icecream is ready! Oh That sounds so delicious, I have some Flybuy points I wonder if I can get an Icecream maker
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Post by ivyplus on Jan 10, 2008 19:42:32 GMT 12
Tonight I will make some icecream with the raspberries. It is so easy and so delecious: Fresh raspberries (stored in the fridge for a while that they are cool) cream (cool) raw sugar I put all the ingredients in the food processor and then in the icecream maker. It takes about an hour and this delicious icecream is ready! Oh That sounds so delicious, I have some Flybuy points I wonder if I can get an Icecream maker Yes it's worth having one. I picked up mine on TM with a popcorn maker - both for about $20. Let me know when you have one I can add some icecream recipies. I have a book from Switzerland with many delicious recipies!
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Post by ivyplus on Jan 10, 2008 19:44:37 GMT 12
Do you remember where you posted it? I would appreciate any help. I can't find it Ivyplus, but it was when you mentioned being given some I think, Aria spuds from some friends. Not that long ago. You mentioned it might be a bit late to put them in but you were going to give it a go. Well I told you about this old fella that used to cut the tops off his spuds after flowering as he said that more goodness went into the crop, and also to protect them from a snap frost. I have not tried this myself. ;D ;D Thanks MD I will try it. BTW the agria ones are starting to grow.
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Post by mamamia on Jan 11, 2008 8:19:41 GMT 12
Oh That sounds so delicious, I have some Flybuy points I wonder if I can get an Icecream maker Yes it's worth having one. I picked up mine on TM with a popcorn maker - both for about $20. Let me know when you have one I can add some icecream recipies. I have a book from Switzerland with many delicious recipies! No there were none on Flybuys, but I will have a look on TM, what brand is yours ivy?
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Post by ivyplus on Jan 11, 2008 10:45:21 GMT 12
Yes it's worth having one. I picked up mine on TM with a popcorn maker - both for about $20. Let me know when you have one I can add some icecream recipies. I have a book from Switzerland with many delicious recipies! No there were none on Flybuys, but I will have a look on TM, what brand is yours ivy? Hello Mamamia! Here is the photo of mine. I am really happy with it. The round block goes into the freezer and the icecream is made in about one hour. It is a Philips Type HR 2295 / A made in Austria
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Post by mamamia on Jan 11, 2008 12:24:15 GMT 12
Thank you ivy, I will have a look on TM soon, I have been busy collecting ducks and bits and pieces this morning, now I am making Apple Crumble to take to a BBQ for dessert tonight Nearly there lol!
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Post by mamamia on Jan 11, 2008 12:49:15 GMT 12
I am bidding on a Sunbeam one at the moment it finishes tonight, but there is no instruction booklet, but Sumbeams site has instructions for a Gelateria machine which is similar
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Post by ivyplus on Jan 14, 2008 10:32:37 GMT 12
Thank you ivy, I will have a look on TM soon, I have been busy collecting ducks and bits and pieces this morning, now I am making Apple Crumble to take to a BBQ for dessert tonight Nearly there lol! Yumm I feel like a rhubarb crumble. Did you get the icecream machine?
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Post by meandog on Jan 14, 2008 13:19:00 GMT 12
Are these icecream machines just like a churn? If so, I wonder if an electric planetary geared cake mixer will do the trick? ;D ;D
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Post by ivyplus on Jan 14, 2008 13:22:48 GMT 12
Are these icecream machines just like a churn? If so, I wonder if an electric planetary geared cake mixer will do the trick? ;D ;D Yes my icecream machine is sort of a churn. On the bottom is a large iceblock and a mixing bit is turning around the icecream mixture which slowly gets cool (hard). After the use the iceblock is put back into the freezer for next load of icecream.
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Post by meandog on Jan 14, 2008 13:32:49 GMT 12
Righty ho! so if I pack ice around the outside of the bowl and the mixture inside I should get the same results. Would that be correct???
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Post by ivyplus on Jan 14, 2008 13:50:34 GMT 12
Righty ho! so if I pack ice around the outside of the bowl and the mixture inside I should get the same results. Would that be correct??? Yes I think that should work. Victorian icecream machines worked that way. They had a wooden bucket with a smaller metal bucket inside which was turned by hand. Between the wooden bucket and the metal bucket was ice with salt.
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Post by ivyplus on Mar 13, 2008 8:07:24 GMT 12
Yesterday I wanted to buy a Staghorn Fern at the nursery. I saw one at a ladies place. She grows it outside and it looked soooo good. I went to the nursery I buy most of my plants and there was one. A bit neglected and there were mealy bugs on it. (Price $45). I said to the lady I will take it but if they could treat the plants fro the mealy bugs. She went to the back and came back with a spray she wanted to sell me!!! I said to her I don't want the plant anymore. Isn't that a bit too cheecky? The price was too high anyway. Here a nice sample of this beautiful plant. tinyurl.com/27owqs
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Post by meandog on Mar 13, 2008 10:06:46 GMT 12
Very hard to eradicate mealy bugs as they have a waxy surface so most sprays will not penetrate. I got that problem on some of my cacti. The Cactus Soc. recommended using a cotton wool bud and dipped it in meths and dab it on each mealy bug. That is a very time wasting way to get rid as there is always some that get missed and away the cycle goes. There may be a better solution now as I am going back about 12 years ago. Yes the fern was a bit to much I have seen good specimens for about $28.
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Post by ivyplus on Mar 13, 2008 10:23:59 GMT 12
I am sure they knew that the mealy bugs are difficult to treat. They at least could offer me the spray for free.
I will try to treat them with MY OWN METHS!! ;D I am sure they wont survive!!
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Post by ivyplus on Mar 14, 2008 13:48:25 GMT 12
A while back I bought a very interesting plant. It is like a hot chilli plant.
Here is what it says on the label: Capsicum pubescens "Rocoto Manzano Red" (hot chillie peppers). Perennial shrub from high up the Andes, cold tolerant but best in warm, sheltered site. 1x1m
It grows very well in a large tub in the green house and has formed many small peppers. Last year I planted hot peppers as well and dehydrated them and ground them up. It's now my own chilli pepper.
I hope with this plant to have fresh chillies all year round.
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Post by ivyplus on Apr 10, 2008 20:25:25 GMT 12
Here some promissed photos of the new items in the "garden". Bike Shed (with matching dog!) Second Composting Toilet
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Post by OasisNZ on Apr 10, 2008 21:24:33 GMT 12
Yay, another fresh air shit house, ;D We are going to have another compost with worms to deal to this material, then, depending on how far we can get over our "fecophobia"... FECOPHOBIA AND THE PATHOGEN ISSUE
The belief that humanure is unsafe for agricultural use is called fecophobia, a term, I admit, I made up. People who are fecophobic can suffer from severe fecophobia or a relatively mild fecophobia, the mildest form being little more than a healthy concern about personal hygiene. More reading here... weblife.org/humanure/chapter6_2.html ...it will be used to fertilise our "forest", then possibly our gardens. Punnet of raspberries next season, anyone?
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Post by ivyplus on Aug 4, 2008 11:58:47 GMT 12
Today I want to sew my summer plants. It's early but I will keep them in the "Green House" and "White House".
This year I want to try to grow sugar beet. We grow that in Switzerland to extract sugar and as food for animals. I read you can use them for wine making.
Kings seeds sells them and I have ordered some.
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Post by cloudhands on Aug 7, 2008 21:20:34 GMT 12
hey mumma gardens lookin good, missing you. and love u even more. night night, sweetdreams ur sweetie ps. lookin foward to our next rendevous. and guess what, ill be 18!! =D (from E) what else are you sewing for the summer?, from M..
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