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[stevo1962]

A chilly minimum of 21 up here .We had winter last Thursday when it plummeted down to 14

[robbiegal]

have you been told today mate?  ............. typing with blue fingers here!! the old heater is pumpin'

[trout]

A chilly minimum of 21 up here .We had winter last Thursday when it plummeted down to 14

That is exactly why I can't wait to get back up in the Kimberlies again.

[trout]

This is the new lappy.
Yes it IS white, So much easier to see the keys :good:

[Unicorn]

A before and after pic of the wagon.

[trout]

Nicely done Mate :good:

[ausjack]

Well done Uni

[trout]

My Sister has been on at me for ages to get myself one of them "Air Fryers" so I ordered one on line and it arrived yesterday.
Baked Spuds done in these are GOLD :yahoo:

[ausjack]

:scratch_one-s_head: so they turn spuds into gold, I must get one..better than winning lotto

[robbiegal]

air fryer?
you use no oil to cook them?

prey tell .....

[trout]

air fryer?
you use no oil to cook them?

prey tell .....

No oil needed for Baked spuds and a light spray is all that is needed for Chips RG :good:

[robbiegal]

gawd
just cooked up a fair pot of beef tallow last night
for old times sake really, my mother always had an enamel pot of the stuff

so we made use of the trimmed whole rump last night

we both had fun cooking it up and I even ran the tallow through muslin to make it clear.

we plan to par-cook up home made chips/wedges and then freeze them - just to see how they go

i remember when in the early 90's tallow became a big no no and everyone scrambled to the stores to buy sunflower oil as it was said to be 'better for you' and so on

[trout]

Before vegetable/sunflower oil and all the other oils that are now freely available and relatively cheap these days we used dripping/tallow all the time.
When I would kill a couple of sheep for the table I used to keep the membrane from around the sheep's stomachs as this was laced with fat and when I cut them down the next morning and all the fat had set around the kidneys and other areas on the carcass and I used to collect this as well .
I used to put all this plus the dripping from roasts and the frypan also all the fatty cut offs from various meats into an old copper boiler half filled with salted water, light the fire and boil it all up.
When the fire had finally died out and the whole lot cooled off in the morning we would skim all the white fat off the top and this is how we made our own frying fat.

All I can say is thank the God's for canola oil, making the frying fat used to be a Bugger of a job and I do NOT miss doing  it one iota :yahoo:

[robbiegal]

leaf fat
it is apparently the best

yeah - copper full of the stuff would have been a HUGE job - plenty of candle wax for a year as well  

 we just had a play and it bought back memories for both of us and had the house smelling fantastic as well

[trout]

I never did the candles or the soap thing, I have never been that talented :angel: