Cooking and Recipes

[Farseer]

Hamburgers are also dangerously tasty if you make the burgers themselves on your own as well... (from ground beef and seasoning/spice of your own choice...

Living on a cattle station means I always make my own, with our own home-grown beef. Nothing shop-bought can compare in my opinion!

. Hmm... on that thought... how much better would it be with freshly harvested herbs?

As for above...whatever I have in my garden at the time goes in! Fresh is best.

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I forgot to boggle at - crawchies from a turkey nest?????? What in the world?
Sometimes I feel like there ARE different countries within the Australian continent. I have NEVER heard of a crawchie?! Seeing you called them freshwater yabbies I'm gonna assume they are what we call plain old 'yabbies' (we don't have non-freshwater yabbies.... )
What are they doing in a turkey nest?? The only yabbies I know live in the mud bank of waterways.

Yes, a "crawchie" is just another name for a "yabby" but I have never used the word yabby in my life, except to explain that a crawchie is one of them to those who have never heard of a crawchie! I guess it's a regional thing, like how I call an "icy cup" a "big lick"...I will drive to the city or a large town quite a distance away and a school group will be selling them and I will say, "Can I have two red big licks, please?" and they'll go ..."Oh, you mean an icy cup??" (for the benefit of others, a big lick or icy cup is just cordial in a plastic cup that's been frozen, like an ice-block).

As for a turkey's nest...it actually has nothing to do with a turkey except that the circular shape of the structure is similar in style to that of the nest of a turkey. It is, in fact, just a source of captured water (taken in via a windmill or pump, or supplemented with rainwater) very similar to a dam but usually smaller in size. It is used to both store water and relay it from the original water source to a watering trough for stock.

Because the creek that goes through here does not always have water in it, we breed crawchies in our dams and turkey's nests (though not in large, commercial quantities or anything) to eat and also to use as bait for fishing etc.

Now I just have to hope I get at least 20 tomatoes for sauce!

I've never counted just how many cherry tomatoes equates to the needed 3.8kg but, let me warn you, it is a LOT of chopping up to do, even without the peeling and deseeding etc, and even with a handy husband helping! Mid-way through I often think, "Why am I DOING this?!"