SMOKO TIME --- Malt Slice

Mum’s Malt Slice

1 packet of Malt biscuits (may need more depending on tin size)

1 tin condensed milk

3 oz melted copha

2 cups coconut

1 teaspoon Vanilla essence

1. Line tin with biscuits (half of pack)

2. Melt copha

3. Mix all ingredients except biscuits together.

4. Pour mixture over biscuits

5. Cover with leftover biscuits

Put in the fridge to set.

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?

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

www.facebook.com/RRAW.Network 

WHAT THEY SAY:

We are an online network for Rural & Remote Australian Women. We aim to be a repeater tower, bringing all the most current information from networks, associations and groups together.

RRAWN aims to be a network that brings all the countless other women's groups, networks and associations that represent women in rural & Remote communities, small businesses and Agriculture together in collaboration.

We aim to share with you all the most current information and events from these representative networks.

If you have something you'd like us to share please leave a message on our wall and we will pass it around.

When I took up governessing it was a big shock having to cook for myself.  Lee-Anne AKA Bushgovo AKA Miss Governess Australia shared lots of recipes and ideas with me... she loves cooking and I let her create and then use the recipes in my everyday.  

This recipe below is the base for what could be many versions.  I know Lee-Anne and my boss add in lots of different things to quiche depending on what is in the fridge and garden.

Lee-Anne’s Quick Quiche

3 eggs

¾ cup milk

¾ cup cream

1 cup onion, chopped

1 cup bacon, chopped

1 cup grated cheese

1 tblspn parsley

1 cup pastry mix

sprinkle with nutmeg.

Mix altogether

Bake for 45minutes at 180 degrees

Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream

This recipe is in a group called BARBWIRE... I really have to thank Kim for sharing

Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream

600ml milk

pinch salt

1 cup castor sugar

2 teaspoon vanilla essence

2 eggs, beaten

500ml cream

Combine milk, salt and sugar in a saucepan (or microwave proof dish). Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently until mixture nearly boils. (or 2min on high in microwave)

Reduce heat to low.
Gradually stir about half of the milk into the egg. Add egg mixture back into remaining half of milk.

Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until mixture slightly thickens. (or 30sec burst in the microwave, taking care that it doesn't boil over) Remove from the heat, add vanilla essence and allow to cool.

Refrigerate and chill thoroughly - preferably overnight.

Add cream, mixing with wire whisk.

Pour into the canister and allow to churn and freeze.

Very important to have it as cold as possible when you put it in the canister so it works better/faster - I tend to put the mix in the freezer for an hour or until it starts to freeze around the edge before churning.

This is actually a double mix that will make 2 litres of ice - cream, I churn half at a time, leaving the canister to refreeze between times.

For caramel ice-cream, add a tin of caramel, for strawberry ice-cream, add to punnets of strawberries (that have been put through food-processor).

Eat healthy --- Let's have a BROWNIE

The following recipe comes from a lady from the United States.  So I guess you could say it is a traditional American brownie.

First time I tasted it my wisdom teeth were playing up but despite the pain I soldiered through many pieces it was very yummy.

It also brings great memories of the station I was working on at the time.  We had a lot of fun in the paddock.

Brownies

Melt ¾ cup butter and add ¾ cup cocoa and 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Mix in separate dish.

1 tspoon baking powder

½ tspn salt

4 eggs

1 ¼ cup flour

2 cups sugar

Mix altogether

Bake at 180 degrees for 30 -35 minutes.

Krissy Riley joins the blogging world

Krissy Riley 

There is no doubt this 22 year old is amazing and since becoming a 2011 ABC Heywire competition winner her story is one media moment after another.

Check out her blog called  A Plain Life- A Governess's Blog 

The Governess Australia website has featured in many or her stories and interviews.  I am sure Lee-Anne at  Unwritten Etiquette of the Governess World is enjoying the publicty that governessing is getting.  It is nice to see one of us with their name in lights.

Some other media links and interviews

• www.abc.net.au/rural/regions/content/201202/3427640.htm
• community.cowhorse.com.au/profiles/blogs/life-on-anna-plains
• www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2012/s3427735.htm#.TzSi1rh4pGI.facebook

Steak Rocks - Braised steak

I love a piece of steak and found this recipe in a SOTA cookbook

Braised Steak in oven

1 lb of steak (can be diced but I often prefer to lay a good piece of steak flat in a roasting dish.)

½ onion chopped

2 tblspn Tomato sauce

1 Beef stock cube

1 tblspn brown sugar

2 tblspn brown vinegar (white can be used a pinch)

1 tblspn hot sauce

½ cup water

Roll meat in flour.  Place in casserole dish (I prefer one layer about an inch deep).  Add onion.  Combine remaining ingredients and pour over meat.   

Cook in a Moderate over for an hour or until cooked.

Serve 2-3

Love a good holiday

A holiday snap to let everyone why I have been away.  Evey the stormy days didn't detract from the hours of fun and laughter with mates.

Lovely Mosquito

Lovely Mosquito

Lovely mosquito, attacking my arm

As quiet and still as a statue,

Stay right where you are! I'll do you no harm-

I simply desire to pat you.

Just puncture my veins and swallow your fill

For nobody's going to swot you.

Now, lovely mosquito, stay perfectly still-

A SWIPE! and a SPLAT! and I GOT YOU!

Doug MacLeod

Doug MacLeod is one of my favourite poets.  He has many poems and books some which have different levels of humour which will appeal to adults.  With kids and governessing sometimes you need an edge, something that will make them laugh for hours.

OTHER favourite authors

Max Fatchen

June Factor

Micheal Dugan

Wonder if I can remember the rest, I will have to blog when I find good ones.

The beginning...

Thank you to a wonderful poet for letting me use her poem to open my blog

The Window

You wake up in the morning,

What a great looking day

Out the window the sun shines away.

Getting up and having breakfast

Hoping for delight not dismay

For out the window the sun shines away.

Into the schoolroom we go

Starting a new day

Looking out the window the sun shines away.

Finally reached smoko

She’s trying her best

Still out the window the sun shines away

Back into the schoolroom

Back to the fray

Through the window the sun shines away.

Lunchtime has arrived

I’m feeling frazzled and dazed

Yet out the window the sun shines away.

Afternoon filled with Art and science

Developmental play

And out the window the sun shines away.

School is out at last

She’ll get a star

As we look out the window the sun shines away.

The rest or the day is mine at last

Peace and sunshine

Then I look out the window and see rain coming this way.

 By Lee-Anne Bright