Stir fried beef recipe

For those who've asked for the recipe

Stir  fried Beef

Marinade day:

Slice scotch fillet to desired thickness
Add to plastic bag  enough to cover

Soy sauce
Honey / palm sugar
Garlic  minced about 2 teaspoons
Ginger minced about  2 teaspoons

Sherry  - about quarter of a cup

Chili if you like it

I vacuum seal my plastic bag so then I marinade for  a day or 2.

Cooking day :

Strain steak from marinade. Reserve marinade .

Slice onions, garlic & ginger fry up in grape seed oil.

Add  red & green capsicums, mushrooms. Push to one side in pan.

Brown steak   in batches.

Add any vegetables that take more than 1 minute to cook eg cauliflower broccoli.

Add  2 dessertspoons cornflour to reserved marinade & add water to make up to 2 cups - enough to cover steak.  Cook till thickened.

Adjust seasoning. 

Set aside till ready to serve.

Add wombok cabbage,  baby corn cuts, water chestnuts, snow peas & warm through.

Serve immediately to keep that veggie crunch.

Hope that gives you some idea.

Blue lotus flowers opening in cafe at Kalang River Motel

Blued lotus flowers opening


http://youtu.be/7XCOxOn5AMA

Chilli Crunch

Hot discovery in my kitchen tonight. 
Wanted a hot  side dish for a mild curry and these ingredients jumped together
Yummy

Toss together

Fresh lentil sprouts
Deep fried onions
Fresh chilli finely chopped to taste
Ground sea salt

Sunrise stroll around the garden

Wandered round the garden as the sun was coming up amazed by how many plants were flowering. My first attempt at loading a video . Can you spot the water dragon?

Come for a swim in our new pool

Can't believe we finally got council final inspection for our new pool. Voila. Heated to 29 degrees celsius. Magnesium & potassium for your skin. Wow.

I love it when guests send us emails and cards. Our german guests sent us their photo

I was so impressed with how they were able to jump back in the photo.

Starting to feel like home

My secret garden : one year on and my no dig organic veggie garden is starting to look and feel like home. Worm juice, newspaper a year's worth of lawn cuttings topped off with a bale of lucerne has the soil, the worms and the veggies thriving.

Potato bread

Anothe recipe from Chris on the south coast who visited our cafe.

Mix together
2.5cups wholemeal flour
1t salt
1t bicarb
Rub in 30g butter
Add 1/4 cup powdered milk
1T caraway seed
1cup cold mashed potatoes
Make well in centre
Crack in 1 egg % 1C starter
Whisk in egg with a fork & mix the ;lot to a soft dough( add more milk if necessary)
Bake 20 mins at 200
Reduce heat to 170 & bake 30mins till bottom of loaf is hollow when tapped

Can't wait to try these recipes - I'll let you know how they turn out.

Sourdough scones recipe

From Chris on the south coast who had some of my sourdough in the cafe.

Ingredients
1.5cups plain flour
2t baking powder
3/4t bicarb
.5t salt
1cup starter
knead & roll out 1cm thick
Roll in 1/4 cup melted butter or use sprasy when cut
Place on greased tray & cover with a damp cloth for an hour to rise
Bake at 200 for 20 minutes

Wwelcome to Ray our wwonderful wwooffer from Korea.

Feather glider - the world's smallest possum

Another animal rescued from road works. This little feather glider is so tiny - it's hard to imagine it can fly. So good to see that he had put on weight in 2 days after being milk fed.

Baby Koala

Isn't this the cutest thing. It brought a tear to my eye when I had the privilege of meeting this baby koala a friend has been raising for Wires

The mudbath

So here's the beginning of our mineral therapy pool. I didn't think it was really going to be a mud therapy pool.

Wisteria Magic

Not a bad spot to enjoy a cup of coffee, if I do say so myself.

Coffe Art

This cup of coffee was so pretty, I had to show it off. Best part is - it tastes as good as it looks.

Amazing native flowers from a Guest

What a wonderful surprise when a guest who had stayed with us for a week arrived with these thank you flowers. Makes it all worthwhile

Sourdough Starter

My very first attempt at sourdough, Started according to Sourdough companion site recipe http://sourdough.com/ with 35g unbleached demeter white & 15g demeter rye. Realise I should have got the shop to weigh them , so I don't have to mix them every time. Plus 50ml filtered water. No temp mentioned for the water. Left on shelf to right of stove. Treating it like yoghurt in warm place out of drafts?

My pet spider died

My pet St Andrews cross spider has just died. Had the most amazing web for all the 6 months we've been here. And lots of baby spiders. Guess theyll have to take over

The Cycad turning triffid at front entrance of Kalang River Moel

New growth on the cycad is amazing though you have to stand sideways to see this

The new challenge is gardening wih flowers

I have inherited a garden that has been loved. That has to be a bonus. Now is the time for me to learn to love gardening with flowers. And a bit about the micro climate here in Urunga.