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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I finished hand digging my first swale last week and this got me hyped for the next big rain and my second swale which is there but rudimentary.

    The second one is downhill and in the valley right before a creek and will hold a lot of water as a seasonal wetland inclusive of natives, productive permaculture plants and edible wild annuals like watercress.

    We have been catching tadpoles locally and including them in water ponds that we grow taro and other water vegetables in. There are also the occasional water birds visiting so once the second swale is finalised I envision an explosion of life.

    The hype is real!







  • Not OP but…

    Sweet and sour sauce basic base is 1:1:1 vinegar, sugar and ketchup.

    I like to add extras like a little spice, chilli peppers, sesame seed and oil. Even caramelise the sugar first and use apple cider vinegar and thicken at the end with cornflour slurry if needed.

    You can even take it the extra mile after the meat is battered and almost cooked toss it in a hot wok with raw onion then coat it in the sauce before the onion cooks through and immediately serve. Which gives it an amazing complexity and texture if the onion is cut coarse and still crunchy.