Sloppy Joes and the UNexpected

Lately there has been a LOT of food on my blog.
(JUST IN CASE YOUR DIDN'T NOTICE THE OVERLOAD)

I have been doing some cooking between/and governessing on a station.  Sometimes when you go to a job things can happen that can rock you employers world.   Unexpected.  As a govie you sometimes just have to step in and do what's necessary.

I love my job and when the people around me need help due to the unexpected thats what I do.

As a result of all this I have travelled a fair bit, school has had to be condensed back to important activities (THANKS to great teachers for giving us help with this).

SO as most will know I have begged, borrowed and stolen most of my recipes from friends cooking and from station cooks.  LOVEM' All for the contributions.  Particularly Lee-Anne and Ange who have contributed the most

Mulgaria Sloppy Joes

2lbs Mince

1 onion

¼ teaspoon pepper

¼ cup flour

1 tspn worstershire sauce

1 ½ cus tomato sauce

2 teaspoon chilli

Serve on Buns with coldslaw.

Farmers fighting for the industry and animal welfare

GUEST BLOG by Lee-Anne Bright

Lee-Anne's family have lived on a goat property in Western NSW for 3 generations.  Many parts of her family are farmers across Australia.  Lee-Anne is a full time governess and in her spare time runs a website called Governess Australia. She can be followed on Twitter @Bushgovo 
WARNING HIJACKED BLOG: “Thanks to Outback Girl for allowing me to hijack her blog for this issue.  Cheers, Lee-Anne Bright at Governess Australia”

NO species on earth has the same requirements or physical and mental structure. 

  HAS EVERYONE HEARD ABOUT THE COLES AND ANIMALS AUSTRALIA RUCKUS?

216. Dorpers were not introduced to Australia, they merely escaped South Africa.

Thanks to Farmers Way of Life's Golden Rules of Farming many farming moments have been captured in a sentence.


Part 9 has some hilarious moments

201.  If the dogs smart it will come so far behind it will be in the next paddock.

207. Try explaining that to the kids.... AWKWARD

208. Please don't remember this as it provides much entertainment for bystanders.

220. As a teenager I often wished holidays were kept a secret from my parents.  Get home from school and straight into it.  My friends rarely visited more than once.  :) 

221. Farmers kids are exempt for the REST OF THEIR LIVES from labour laws.  9 times out of 10 they can do it better than the stationhand anyway.

I'm going to post some recipes which I have used over the years growing up on stations.  Can't claim them as mine but collected from friends and family.

Enjoys :)

Milo Energy Biscuits

125g butter

½ cup sugar

½ cup brown sugar

½ cup vanilla

½ cup Milo

1 egg

1 ¾ cup SR flour

Beat butter, sugars and vanilla until light and creamy. Beat in egg.  Fold in flour and Milo.  Roll mixture into balls and place on greased tray.  Flatten with fork.

Bake at 180 degrees Celsius

15-20 minutes or until golden brown.

Makes 40

This is a great quick recipe to do.  So few ingredients and so easy.

:)

Golden Syrup Biscuits

4 oz butter

4 oz Sugar

1 drtspn golden Syrup ( can add more for extra flavour)

1 egg

2 tablespn coconut

½ lb SR flour

Cream butter and sugar, add syrup, egg, coconut, and stir in flour. Bake in Moderate oven.

Carrot Cake

Can't remember where I found this recipe but many people around me have made if and love it.  They are always swapping and changing nuts out and still it is great.


Carrot Cake

Ingredients

1 cup grated carrot

2 eggs

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts

1 cup caster sugar

1 cup self-raising flour

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

grated orange rind, to decorate

orange slices to serve

CREAM CHEESE ICING

125g cream cheese, at room temperature

50g butter, at room temperature

3 cups icing sugar mixture

1 teaspoon finely grated orange rind

1 tablespoon fresh orange juice

Method

1. Grease a 19cm x 30cm lamington pan. Line base and sides with baking paper.

2. Whisk carrot, eggs, oil and walnuts in a medium bowl until combined. Stir in combined sifted sugar, flour, cinnamon and soda. Pour mixture into prepared pan.

3. Cook in a hot oven (200C) for 15 minutes or until cooked when tested. Stand cake in pan for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.

4. To make cream cheese icing, place all ingredients in a medium bowl, beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.

5. Spoon icing into a piping bag fitted with a fluted tube and pipe rosettes over top of cake or alternately spread over cake. Refrigerate for 30 minutes to set before serving.

6. Serve cake cut into rectangles with orange slices.

Hint. Iced cake can be made up to 3 days ahead or frozen for up to 2 months. Thaw at room temperature before serving.

RRAWN ...

Have you seen this?


I follow online some of the ladies involved and must say it is a pleasure to advertise this page and new network for women out back.

Rural & Remote

Australian Women's Network

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