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Caramelised Balsamic Onions

Recipes Naomi Jackson 19/12/23 Recipes Naomi Jackson 19/12/23

Caramelised Balsamic Onions

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Happy 18th wedding anniversary to my lovely husband @rod77j

Celebrating with venison blackstrap (care of Bob, the fallow i shot a few weeks ago), topped with a blackberry sauce (blackberries foraged in the state forest), with sides of green beans a

I started messing around making pickles a few years ago. I love the idea of being able to make things from scratch. In the last year or so that’s extended to making jams and jellies. And it seems I have a knack for it!

I was pretty chuffed la

Merry Christmas!

Cheers and Merry Christmas on this drizzly Christmas Eve

Enjoying a very refreshing little cocktail (which also helps to use up some of the gherkin cucumbers I may have let get too big for pickling)

Muddle together:
1/3 cup cucumber chunks
A sprig

Yum! Venison back strap, tomato salad and cucumber salad.

Back strap was from the little fallow spiker 🦌 I shot a couple months back, tomatoes 🍅 , cucumbers 🥒 and herbs from the garden. Love it when a meal is almost entirely self grown or harves

Sneaky buggars. I swear they hide. None of them were a good size 24 hours ago.

#gherkins #cucumbers #pickles #smallspacegarden

Bun cha (Vietnamese meatballs), pork was from a pig @rod77j shot last year. Got a bit warm towards the end - bit of diced chilli in that dressing 🥵

#eatgame #huntingaustralia #eatwhatyouhunt #gamemeat #vietnamesemeatballs #buncha

Super simple, Asian inspired, venison salad for dinner tonight. Venison cooked on BBQ to a medium rare, with (home grown) salad greens, cucumber, avocado and a Vietnamese style dressing. Venison doesn’t always have to be roasts or steaks 👍

#v

First gherkin cucumbers have emerged (may have let them got for a day or two too long, but they’ll be right). Hoping for a good flush this week so I can pickle a bunch.

#smallspacegardening #gherkins #cucumbers

This weekend’s canning projects.

10 jars of strawberry chilli sauce - this stuff is great. It’s like a sweet chilli sauce but with a bit more kick. Using up a kilo of strawberries that Husband bought and didn’t eat, plus last year

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