Food

[red750]

30 minutes ago, facthunter said:

ood tomato  sliced with ham.

Too right. If we have tomatoes in the house, I add sliced tomato to the ham,cheese, coleslaw sandwiches.

[facthunter]

Well try the dried ones for a stronger taste where suitable.  Bought tomatoes have gone off a lot since the old days.  Most are done in hothouses grown in water. Nev

[Litespeed]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Good tomato  sliced with ham. Cheese and honey with wholemeal bun.  Cucumber goes with cheese. Try sourdough bread. . Fluffed up Omelette on wholemeal toast Add grated cheese on top  of the omelette. If you add it to the omelette it sticks to the Pan..Use Dried tomato on sandwiches goes with a strong cheese. add cider vinegar to salads. Include pickled onions occasionally They keep for ages.. Make your own marmalade , tomato sauce plum sauce and green tomato pickles. Make a batch of pumpkin soup. Banana's have potassium, Dark berries are really good. Grow your own beetroot. It tastes much better than anything you're likely to buy, As you food getas more tasty cut down the salt you use. Adding salt is addictive and it masks  the other flavours.  Nev

Green tomato pickles from a family recipe over 200 years old. Incredible flavour, problem is all the " friends" come calling and want some jars off it.

 

The crap chemical 333's are not real pickled tomato.

[onetrack]

I buy Roma tomatoes, because they taste better and are more "meaty". Our tomatoes often come from Carnarvon, it's a great spot for growing a wide range of fruit and vegies, when it's too cold down South.

[Litespeed]

I would have a big veg garden but it's a bit hard when you live on a boat.

 

I buy my green ones direct from a organic grower, soil not hydroponics.

 

It's hard to get green ones any other way.

[nomadpete]

Shop tomatoes are only on our menu while we wait for our real tomatoes to produce.

[spacesailor]

My tomatoes are producing .

Too many at once . Just like the fruit trees I planted,  an abundance at ' one ' instance .

Then back to the shops .

( I give plenty to my neighbour . But they like them unripened ( green ))

spacesailor

Edited December 16, 2023 by spacesailor
A little more !

[Litespeed]

Harvest green and make pickles, then you have a long term supply.

We used to vacola bottle excess red ones as stewed tomato and onions or as passata. 

 

Roma make the best passata and old school hierloom varieties the best for green.

[willedoo]

Roma tomatoes are good to grow. Very prolific, sometimes you can get an incredible amount per bush if conditions are right. I once tried growing Black Russian tomatoes but they had a bad habit of the skin splitting. I got them and a bunch of other heirloom seeds on evilbay. I had some funny looking South American pumpkins growing as well as Ironbark pumpkins.

[willedoo]

If you grow too many vegetables, a lot of stuff can be frozen and used later in soups, stews, stir frys and casseroles. A lot of stuff I dice up then in a cake mixing bowl, mix it up with a small amount of olive oil until it all has a light coat of oil. The oil does a couple of things. It stops the product from freezing rock hard, and with green things it helps keep the green colour and stops it going black in the freezer. After rolling it in oil, put it in a large cliplock freezer bag in a thin layer (like flat packing it) and squeeze the air out. With a thin layer of frozen product, you can easily break off small pieces as needed.

 

Herbs like rocket and basil are good frozen that way and last a long time. Occasionally I've grated vegetables like carrot and sweet potato before freezing. I never blanch anything. Chilies freeze well and don't need oil, just put them straight in the freezer bag. Some people don't like freezing vegetables, but I like to keep a stockpile of food in the place. I live out of town and don't want to be always driving to town for fresh food.

[Marty_d]

18 hours ago, willedoo said:

When I was in my mid 20's I had a brief career driving interstate. One problem is you are restricted to roadhouse food because it's the only place where you can park the truck. It's not real healthy stuff and some of those truckies had big appetites. One time in Adelaide, me and a workmate had to stop over the weekend to load the following Monday. My truck was stuck inside a factory, but we unhitched his prime mover and used it for transport over the weekend. We went to the drive-in theater; ok as long as we parked up the back. The pizza delivery bloke delivered pizzas to us at the drive-in, so that was a good break from roadhouse fare.

 

I don't know how the truck drivers of subcontinental origin get by with roadhouse food. There's so many of them now, the roadhouses will have to start stocking rice and curry. A lot of them are Sikhs, but as far as I know vegetarian food is not compulsory for them even though a lot are vegetarians.

Probably take home packed meals. 

[facthunter]

I often take the freezer with prepared food and take  what you want out about 45 minutes before you need it. Take fruit also. Probably I like the time saving aspect of it and you eat in the open near your comfort stop.   Nev

[spacesailor]

Unless 

You get stopped at a ' fruitfly ' inspection station. 

Then you have to throw , ( what you bought down the road ) it away even , into the adjacent  field .

But , you can legally bring a jar of live fruitfly through  ! .

I asked that question! .

Edited December 16, 2023 by spacesailor

[facthunter]

You're not supposed to throw fruit out anywhere. You BIN it or eat it before you reach the checkpoint. Most fruit have seeds and some have disease.  Nev

[old man emu]

30 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

' fruitfly ' inspection station

With so much produce being imported, I wonder how much "fruit fly" inspection is being carried out on the wharves.

 

How did the fire ants get in? Or that parasite of bees. Seem the countries we export to can ban our products for the flimsiest of reasons, but it's an open door policy here.

[spacesailor]

Even our " Quarantine  LAW " Is useless .AND That should be ' our ' First line of defence. 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

It's NOT an "open door" Policy at all. . The rules are there but people try to get around them. That's why they have to do careful inspections at airports etc. Nev

[old man emu]

At night, my place is invaded by tiny insects drawn to the lights. I try to kill them with insect spray, but I think that only works if they drown in the liquid. The chemicals don't seem to do anything but add an aroma to the room.

 

So how efficient is the process of people walking through the cabin of arriving international flights spraying insecticide?

[facthunter]

Not good at all. I doubt it's still done. Planes going to PNG and Darwin often got the big flying roaches on board but they get in confined spaces out of sight mostly where that spray wouldn't reach. 

  OME I'm using those blue electric things that zap them, but I think the small BATS that are around here do a pretty good job  with small insects.. Nev

[onetrack]

I haven't seen the inside of an aircraft sprayed for bugs in probably 20 years or more. They don't even clean the aircraft any more between flights, unlike the old days when the aircraft was thoroughly cleaned between flights.

[Bruce Tuncks]

OME, I sometimes watch " border security" on TV and it seems they are trying hard. But, with chemicals, you can't seem to have effective and safe at the same time.

With termite treatments these days, the current approved and safe chemicals don't seem to work.

 

[onetrack]

We use Exterra termite traps, they use termite bait stations buried in the ground with small pieces of tasty timber in them, and these bait stations are regularly checked for termites.

 

If termites are sighted chewing on the bait timber, they're not disturbed, but a "harmless, safe" toxin is added to the bait station to kill the termites.

 

It took us years to find out what that "harmless, safe" toxin was. It turns out, it's a product called Chlorfluazuron.

This chemical is a benzoylurea insecticide, an organochlorine insecticide, an organofluorine insecticide, and a dichlorobenzene.

Despite all the huge chemical description names, it is apparently non-toxic to humans and mammals.

 

Chlorfluazuron works by inhibiting the production of the chitin which forms the new shell that gives termites protection after they moult into a larger version of themselves. So the colony ends up dying.

 

https://exterra.com.au/about/how-exterra-works/

 

https://termikill.com.au/chlorfluazuron-why-dont-we-call-it-a-poison/

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

I think the small BATS that are around here do a pretty good job  with small insects.

The consensus opinion around here is that I'm a big unusual, but I swear there's no bats in the belfry.

[facthunter]

It will take 2 lifetimes for the Locals to accept you. It's 3 in Tasmania but that's a MANIA so they have an excuse..   Nev

[facthunter]

I tried to get it changed to TASWEGIA but that didn't catch on. .  Nev