Before Easter we experimented with making our own Walliser käseschnitte. Of course this required a lot of experimentation and tasting!
Walliser käseschnitte cooking under the grate
Walliser käseschnitte fresh from the fire and ready to eat!
Walliser käseschnitte at its best!
Some of our previous versions from the electric grill:
Making Walliser käseschnitte at home
Eating Walliser käseschnitte at home
Making more Walliser käseschnitte
Just completed building our first Fogão a Lenha – i.e. Brazilian wood burning cooking stove. With a hint of the rocket mass heater / stove thrown in.
Our finished Fogão a Lenha with chimney over on the right in the corner
Three pots on the Fogão a Lenha
Flames showing that heat and smoke are drawn along the stove to the chimney
Didymus the builder
Boiling 20L of water
Boiling 20L of water
Wheel drums form the rings
Learning how to position the wok
To allow maximum heat!
Fire from the entranceway can be felt on the third ring in – drawn along by the draught from the chimney.
We like it!
Multiple small fires to crack rocks in the future tractor and trailer track
Multiple small fires to crack rocks in the future tractor and trailer track
looking south
looking north towards the main house
Multiple small fires to crack rocks in the future tractor and trailer track
As day turns to night
Above the clouds at dusk
Its raining somewhere else for a change!
Burning goes on into the night
And, all through the night
Just what we are looking for
Cracked granite boulders
The victory parade – our first drive along our new ‘road’
to deliver yet more firewood!
Black wattle – a hardwood much preferred for burning!
We experiment with some hydrocarbon based accelerant
Ok – its used engine oil
Now everyone wants to join the fun
Adding fuel to the fire
What can I say – who doesn’t want to play at this!
We have produced stones for our next building project (or HALBs – semi-finished products in SAPanese) (the dog is sleeping – honest guv!)
Before you start! These pine trees died 5 to 6 years ago in a bush fire. The live branches and needles you see are from the surrounding new growth since then
but they are big and heavy
Our super strong double axle trailer from Inverness Scotland!
Being tower by ‘Hurler’ our essential MF690 4WD tractor from 1985
Bye
A graveyard of firewood – and this is by no means sufficient for the job coming
Target number 1 – the largest granite boulder in our path
Target 1 under fire
We recently built and hung ‘The School Gates’!
As you may imagine it was not that simple but the end result was well worth it as you can see!
(The cantilevered gates have to align within a couple of mm to allow the sliding bolt to close between the two halves.)
The Troutbeck School Gate
The Troutbeck School Gate
The Troutbeck School Gate
The Troutbeck School Gate
The Troutbeck School
Our first lamb is born
Eastern Highlander 