BREAKFASTS

[Shalem]

Home made yoghurt and Australian Native Fruit as a "Fruit Compote".

using Outback Pride's Wild Fruit in Syrup.

I found this to be so delicious and not heavy (draining much of the syrup).

When I stayed in 4 to 5 star hotels, there'd be a Fruit Compote in the breakfast buffet. Above dish somewhat reminded me of that, except I found the native fruit one to be more pleasant as it wasn't as rich and heavy like those I'd eaten in hotels.

Above dish could also be a Native Fruit Salad Yoghurt by stirring it altogether. There's a commercial Fruit Salad Yoghurt which I enjoy now and then. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a commercial Native Fruit Salad Yoghurt available, if there isn't one already?

[Shalem]

Home made Wild Rosella Jam;

Simple on stovetop: rosellas, water, Jamsetta Sugar. Simmer till it thickens and reduces. This sugar already has a setting agent, so no need to add other pectin. Used stick blender to puree the rosellas, the idea which I got from Benjamin Christie's website in his Rosella Jam recipe.




Bought the flowers at an incredibly cheap price from one store (10 times cheaper than elsewhere), otherwise I wouldn't be making this jam.

My jam in small jars like these make nice gifts for friends and family.

There are lots of commercial native jams available.

[Shalem]

Dick Smith's Bushfood Cereal

My favourite cereal! Yum.





Here I've added chopped macadamia nuts, diced quandong leather and Fruit Spice to the cereal.

[Shalem]

Fruit Spice Yoghurt


Plain yoghurt with Fruit Spice mixed in.

(More info/pics on Fruit Spice in Dining D'under topic).

[Shalem]

Layers of home made Fruit Spice Yoghurt & Dick Smith's bushfood cereal, topped with Outback Pride's Quandong Dessert Sauce.

I'm not a big breakfast eater but thoroughly enjoyed this for breakfast today. I thought it was so yummy (and it's good I've found some breakfast I like that I can encourage myself to eat since I often skip breakfast).

It was interesting to me that the quandong sauce tasted very similar to honey, when eaten with this yoghurt. (When this sauce is eaten in another dish, say dessert, it doesn't taste like honey at all). I was pleased to discover this, because I sometimes eat plain yoghurt with honey, so now here's another option for me to eat it with Quandong Dessert Sauce instead.

[Shalem]

YOGHURT MAKERS

Electric Yoghurt Maker (EasyYoghurt)

There's a few different types on the market.

I bought the above one from www.easycook.com.au.

Advantages of EasyYoghurt Maker: I really like this one for several reasons:

(1) No boiling of water and no water required; Not only convenient but saves water and electricity.

(2) It takes UHT milk (the ones that can be stored in the pantry) so there's no need to heat and cool fresh milk to certain temperatures; Fresh milk can also be used.

(3) When milk powder is added, it makes really good thick yoghurt, similar to Greek yoghurt;

(4) Yoghurt culture is able to be purchased as an extra. However, it's not necessary and works completely fine without it. For mine, I use a small batch of the last yoghurt for the culture, and pop it in with the milk and milk powder.

(5) Any type of liquid milk can be used, eg fresh cow's milk, UHT, goat milk, soy milk, organic cow milk, organic goat milk, flavoured milk etc (though I haven't tried this full range).

(6) As well as being versatile with types of milk, it also means I have the option of experimenting with different bushfood flavours & native spices into my yoghurts.

Disadvantages of Easiyo Yoghurt Maker:

(Note: The following is only my personal opinion & experience, and not meant to discourage anyone from purchasing an Easiyo Yoghurt Maker.)

For the above reasons, I feel EasyYoghurt is far better than my Easiyo yoghurt maker. Easiyo requires boiling and using water and buying packets of Easiyo yoghurt mix for each yoghurt. I didn't have as much success rate with Easiyo as I did with EasyYoghurt for reasons such as not setting properly and flavours that I tried which didn't appeal to me.

[Thomas B]

I know I've posted this before, but greek yoghurt topped with mashed sandpaper figs is delicious.

[Shalem]

Thomas B

Sounds good. Next time you have one of these dishes, I'd really appreciate it if you could take a photo and post it here, as I have never seen a sandpaper fig. I don't think I've even heard of them until recently in this forum, and saw the tree not too long ago on a Gardening Australia segment on foxtel.

(Talking of Gardening Australia show, I notice a number of episodes recently on foxtel where they are discussing bushfoods briefly. I think a member in this forum did mention something about this several months ago (?). I was glad to come across them through my husband, just while I was working in the background. Eg, I don't think I'd ever seen the tree from where the paperbark roll comes from and was interesting to see it on the show).

[Shalem]

LEMON MYRTLE & MACADAMIA YOGHURT - Coles

Haven't tried it yet, but there's a Queensland Yoghurt Company Lemon Myrtle & Macadamia yoghurt available from Coles Supermarkets at least.

[Thomas B]

I haven't taken a photo myself, since I've moved to Canberra I don't harvest them anymore.

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/bushtuck ... r_fig.html

Look near creek beds for trees or shrubs with rough looking leaves.

[Shalem]

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Thanks Thomas B.

After I asked for a photo of sandpaper figs, I happened to come across of photo of them in Dining Downunder Cookbook.

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FLAVOURED BUTTERS

These might be nice to have on toasts, crumpets or breakfast muffins. For more information, refer around page 5 of Breads topic.

[Shalem]

Above and below: Greek Yoghurt & sugar cured Riberries.




If I wanted to, I could have mixed through any of the following bushfood spices into the yoghurt for little aroma, flavour, decoration and/or colour contrast:

Lemon Myrtle or Lemon Myrtle Sprinkle
Fruit Spice
Forest Anise or Aniseed Myrtle

[BushWhacker]

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Thanks Thomas B.

After I asked for a photo of sandpaper figs, I happened to come across of photo of them in Dining Downunder Cookbook.

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FLAVOURED BUTTERS

These might be nice to have on toasts, crumpets or breakfast muffins. For more information, refer around page 5 of Breads topic.

The butters get my vote for most creative and delicious treat on the thread. It's an odd hour of the day in the UK and for some reason I can't help but to have my mouth water at the moment. I need to put down the tea and go make some butter! Commence mission!

[Shalem]

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Thank you BushWhacker!

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