Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Doors and Drawers
Month: November 2019
Brian’s tomato relish
This recipe is a compilation of four recipes. I took what I liked from each recipe, modified after a few goes and here is the result. Let me know if it works for you.
Brian’s Tomato Relish
INGREDIENTS
9 Roma Tomatoes, halved
2 cloves garlic chopped
1 large brown onion coarsely chopped
1 dried chili, chopped, some seeds removed
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 tablespoons palm sugar
Salt and cracked black pepper to taste
1 tablespoon seed mustard
1 ½ tablespoons olive oil
METHOD
Heat the oil in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes or until soft. Add the garlic and chili, and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until aromatic.
Add the halved tomatoes stir until the tomatoes are covered with the onion mixture. Add the tomato paste, stir and coat the tomatoes until the tomatoes start breaks down.
Add the cider vinegar, stirring until starts to boil.
Add the palm sugar, mustard and salt and pepper to taste. Stir to mix through.
Put a lid on the saucepan, simmer stirring occasionally, for around 10 minutes, or until the tomatoes have reduced and are mushy.
Mash the tomatoes with the spoon and cook for 10 minutes or until the mixture thickens. Remove the skins if you wish.
Place into sterilised jars
I promised that I would post this recipe for someone ages ago. Sorry I can’t remember who it was.
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The air is thick
with smoke
vision a grey white haze
the fires smell
invades the house
and nostrils
sounds of helicopters
startle the birds
bucket swinging
it flies overhead
water it cries
a blessed relief
Weekly word prompt: Giving thanks
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Peace
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The weekly quotation inspired image from Debbie at Travel with Intent
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
Junichiro Tanizaki
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Solitude
It’s all white
Abundant
The Photo for the Week prompt: Abundant
The Ragtag Daily Prompt Monday: Rouse
When I first set foot on my bush property one thing I found was an abundance of Jumping Ants (Myrmecia pilosula) They have nests in the ground but also forage in trees. Yes they can jump 10cm or more. So it is not best to rouse Jumping Ants. As you can see, they are quite quick to emerge from the nest and attack.
You may wonder why, they are just ants. These Jumping Ants also have a very good pair of mandibles which can grip on quite hard and also have a sting.
Yes, a sting!!! It is like having red hot needles inserted into you skin and a painful sting which can last for quite a few hours afterwards. Jumping Ants can be found almost every where in Australia but aren’t all that common in urban areas..
Related, unsurprisingly, to the Bullant who also have the ability to give you a nasty bite but their bite doesn’t last as long and only gives you a welt or two,
Yes, Jumping Ants are in abundance still as they live in the bush or forest where I also live. Their nests can be up to 50cm high and up to 60cm in diameter. These nests are very solar energy efficient. The Jumping Ants also lie to decorate the outside of the nest with seeds, coloured gravel, charcoal, sticks and even the small invertebrates corpses they have slain.
They have excellent eye sight and I have seen them on leaves about to jump when I have been around a meter away. Jumping Ants will continue to advance until you are far away from their nest, probably about one kilometer lol
It was the sheer number of Jumping Ants I encountered when I was clearing the land, fencing and building sheds and houses that gave rise to naming of my property.
Durranbah is the indigenous name for Jumping Ants
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