Megan Palmer

Here are a few threads for you

https://permies.com/t/281580/composting/Super-easy-beginner-project-compost

https://permies.com/t/363114/composting/pile-sawdust-materials-orderly

https://permies.com/t/364497/composting/simplest-cheapest-start-compost-neighborhood

Here we are, sweet cherry clafoutis.

Tess Misch wrote:
Oohhh!  Definitely gonna try this, will have to see what I can replace the sugar with, as I am trying to move away from my sugar intake. But this looks delicious!  --Tess

I have made this without sugar in the batter and it still tastes really good, the natural sugars in fully ripe fruit makes it sweet enough.

Burra Maluca wrote:The boys went to the Festa das Varas do Fumeiro (festival of poles of smokes) yesterday, and came home with this, which is now cooking...

It looks deliciously rich.  How did you cook it? Boiled, steamed/baked?

It's been a bumper year for cherries in Central Otago and have just been clambering up a ladder and picked a half bucketful of cherries.

Could have taken more but they taste best eaten fresh, these are an eating variety.

Time to make cherry clafoutis!

This thread might give you some inspiration for meal ideas

https://permies.com/t/360/1126/dinner#3730572

Bear

We have three whisks in our kitchen and the one that gets the least use is the balloon whisk.

We also own a rotary egg beater and a spiral whisk.

All three were op shop finds and the spiral whisk gets the most use.

It is guaranteed to produce a lump free roux, gravy, batter and will whisk eggs well for omelettes but if I need to beat egg whites the rotary egg beater is quicker.

The ballon whisk is one with some sort of sealant in the handle keeping the wires in place.

The rotary egg beater is definitely a buy for life, my 90 year old mother has her one from my childhood.

Both the other whisks will likely outlive me too.

Is it too late to try to find some pencil thick branches that can be grafted onto another tree in spring?

They can be grafted onto a plum or peach, take lots of cuttings. I am an inexperienced grafter but get a one in six success rate on the majority of the grafts I’ve done.

Or scrabble around the base of the tree for any of last seasons windfalls and plant the stones?

The stone grown trees may not be identical but will certainly be very close to the parent and may even be more delicious.

And here in NZ they are called slaters

https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/tools-and-resources/identification/what-is-this-bug/slaters