Handmade Water Ram 自製水力幫浦
Videos of goats and chickens 羊寶錄影
Chickens 雞
Voice of goats 山羊的叫聲
Goat feed 山羊愛吃的食物
Books and Movies Review 讀書和電影心得
Back Yard Bio-Charcoal 自製木炭
Recipes 中西食譜
Edible Garden 可食庭園
Property Development 買山容易養山難
太誇張了, 平日只吃自種的蔬果, 許久沒在超市買菜, 今午為明天請客短缺的菠菜, 跑了趟市場, 驚見細小一把的芫荽 Parsley, 竟要價 $2, 長得滿山當雜草的薄荷 Mint, 一小盒將近 $5,
3 小支迷迭香 Rosemary 和鼠尾草 Sage,
百里香 (麝香草)Thyme 各要 $2,
鼠尾草 Sage (左圖) 和百里香 (麝香草)Thyme 在園裡一直長得十分茂盛,
幾根細香蔥 (蝦夷蔥) 也要兩塊多美金, 超市一瞧, 頓覺滿山亂長的薄荷 (右圖) 可愛非常, 農務亦不再辛苦
Handmade Water Ram 自製水力幫浦
Videos of goats and chickens 羊寶和雞寶錄影
Chickens 雞
Voice of goats 山羊的叫聲
Goat feed 山羊愛吃的食物
Back Yard Bio-Charcoal 自製木炭
Recipes 中西食譜
Edible Garden 可食庭園
Property Development 買山容易養山難
Books and Movies Review 讀書和電影心得
兩天要請 10 個客人吃飯, 都是老美, 吃雞肉, 不吃豬牛, 鄉居一向簡單, 只是請非肉不歡的客人, 就不能比照我們吃生菜, 清蒸馬鈴薯了, 除炭烤鮭魚, 燙菠菜, 涼拌小黃瓜, 番茄四季豆炒蛋和水餃, 大概就數烤雞腿最方便了
特地挑放山雞的雞腿, 以免腥味重, 摘取香草園裡的迷迭香 Rosemary (左圖), 百里香 Thyme (右圖),
涼香的鼠尾草 Sage (右圖) 和大蒜 Garlic (一支雞腿一瓣蒜的比例), 切碎備用. 若無新鮮的香草, 乾燥的義式香料粉也可以
用刀在雞腿上畫幾刀, 以讓調味料入味,
3大匙醬油
2大匙米酒
2小匙鹽
蒜頭, 香草
2大匙橄欖油 (用大烤箱烤, 才需要加, 小烤箱則不必, 會太油)
雞腿若想烤起來金黃焦脆, 則須先用紙巾吸乾水分, 再加調味料抓勻, 若想烤起來柔嫩多汁, 則可省吸水步驟, 直接拌入調味料, 按摩均勻
大碗蓋上盤子, 放入冰箱醃四小時或隔夜
烤箱華氏400, 攝氏200度, 預熱10分鐘
醃好的雞腿放在舖好錫箔紙的烤盤上,
雞腿不易熟, 共須烤 45 分鐘, 先烤 20 分鐘, 翻面, 再烤 20 分鐘,
用筷子或叉子, 戳入雞腿, 若能輕易穿透且無血水, 才算熟透.
烤箱 40 分鐘停機後, 不要立刻取出, 拔掉插頭, 用餘溫再燜 5 分鐘, 趁熱食用, 有蒜香的汁液可用來拌飯
若想更簡單, 做蜜汁雞腿, 則僅需把蜂蜜加入醬油, 調成你喜歡的甜度, 將雞腿醃隔夜, 放烤箱烤熟即可, 記得翻面, 以免烤焦
Videos of goats 山羊錄影
Chinese recipes 中西食譜
Beans 豆子種類
Bean Soup is good for winter time. You can use any kind of bean you like. Leave it on wood stove (and/or rice cooker/crockery cooker) and slowly cook until soft.
Ingredients:
1. Beans:
such as black beans, red beans, lentils, scarlet emperor, white bean, speckeled beans, split peas, black eye peas, kidney beans and so on.
2. A quart jar of home made tomato juice OR an 8 oz can of tomato paste
(Boil the tomato, peel the skin, add some garlics and herbs)
3. Rice (brown or white rice) (option)
4. One cup of shredded Monterey Jack Cheese (option)
5. 1 TSP smashed garlic (option)
6. 1/4 sliced fresh onion and mustard
7. Fresh herb: Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, and so on
8. Jalapeno pepper (option) and black olives
9. About 1 TSP salt (to your taste)
Process:
1. Soak beans over night (the water must cover beans, leave the lid open)
2. Pour out the water and wash beans several times until the water is clean
3. Put water and beans into the cooker. Water has to be at least twice amount of beans.
4. Cook until beans are soft.
5. Add black olive, tomato juice or paste into the soup
6. You can serve bean soup now if you like plain soup or add some sugar in it as a dessert.Keep cooking if you like richer flavor:
7. Add a cup of rice into the soup (or cook rice first, then add cooked rice into the soup).
8. Add all herbs into the soup
9. Add garlic and/or jalapeno pepper if you like spicy flavor.
10. Serve a bowl of soup with shreded Monterey Jack cheese, chopped onions or a half avocado with a piece of cranberry/millet/walnut/green bean bread.
You can stop here if you want a vegetarian meal
Bean soup with meat:
11. Mix salt, smashed garlic, chopped jalapeno pepper with ground meat, mix well.
12. Fry ground meat thoroughly with butter.
13. Add cooked meat into the soup
14. Cook the soup till boiling
15. Serve a bowl of soup with shredded cheese, chopped onions or a half avocado with a piece of cranberry bread.
Most of the ingredients are from our garden.
因魔豆湯得花長時間慢墩，每年冬天，就利用燒木柴的老火爐，慢火燉上好幾天，以備在外工作進屋後，有碗熱騰騰，又營養飽肚的湯可喝，亦可用大同電鍋或燉鍋煮它，味道一樣鮮美。
這湯的所有豆子都是自家種的，什麼豆子都行，重點在必須浸泡一夜，至少八小時以上，第二天倒掉泡豆子的水，用清水把豆子洗幾遍，再放到電鍋或燉鍋裡，煮到爛熟，水量約為豆子的兩倍。
豆子煮軟後，加入黑橄欖，蕃茄汁或新鮮番茄，繼續燉爛 (若用新鮮番茄，則在滾水把蕃茄煮爛後，挑出皮, 加入許多大蒜和多種香草, 例如羅勒草調味)。
加入米(白米、糙米、小米都行) ，可事先用電鍋把飯煮熟，再加入豆湯裡比較快。
加點鹽和香草 (若無新鮮或乾的西洋香草，中國類香草亦可) ，大蒜和辣椒這些調味料，可依個人喜好增減。
吃素的以下步驟可省:
另一大碗醃絞肉: 大蒜、辣椒、香草和鹽，醃牛/豬/羊肉選其一，若用雞肉，可用去骨雞絲肉，或把雞骨頭從湯裡挑出來。
熱油鍋把絞肉炒熟，再加到豆湯裡，大火煮滾即可。
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