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Lemon Tart

Base

  • Butter (couple of tablespoons)
  • Sugar (1/3rd of a cup)
  • Almond meal (150g pack)
  • Vanilla Essence (1 tablespoon)
  • Plain flour (1/2 cup)

Method

  1. Combine together to form crumbs, then pour into tart mould and press on base & edges
  2. Cook for 10mins, at 180 degrees

Curd

  • 1/3rd cup sugar
  • 1/3rd cup of lemon juice
  • 1/4 cup thick cream
  • 2 teaspoons of grated lemon rind
  • 3 eggs

Method

  1. Combine everything, and mix until smooth
  2. Cook for 30-35mins, at 180 degrees in the oven
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Apricot Crumble

Ingredients;

  • 6 tablespoons of oats
  • 6 tablespoons of plain flour
  • 5-6 tablespoons of brown sugar
  • 6 tablespoons of decicated coconut
  • Half a can of apricots (or as much as you want really)
  • 3 tablespoons of butter (ish)

Method;

  1. Combine everything except the apricots together
  2. Spread the apricots out on a baking tray
  3. Cover with the topping (the combined ingredients)
  4. Bake in the oven at approx 180 degrees for around 20-30 mins (until lightly brown on top)
  5. Serve with cream or ice-cream
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Apricot Dumplings

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of plain flour
  • 2 cups of self raising flour
  • A few pinches of salt
  • 3 eggs
  • Milk
  • Approx 10 – 12 ripe apricots
  • Butter (to serve)
  • Sweet ground biscuits (grenita) (to serve)
  • Cottage cheese (to serve)

Method

  1. Try to minimise any drafts in the room and cook in a cool / warm environment.
  2. Wash & half apricots
  3. Put a big pot of water on to boil – half full
  4. Mix together the flour, salt and eggs. Add milk till till the mixture is starting to come together, and kneed till it’s not sticky anymore.
  5. Roll out with a rolling pin till it’s around 1cm thick. (Use flour on the rolling pin so it doesn’t stick to the dough).
  6. Using a large diameter glass (approx. the diameter of a mug), cut circles in the dough.
  7. Put 1/2 an apricot in a dough cut-out circle, and stretch the sides to meet over the top of the side of apricot.
  8. Place approx 6 dumplings into the put, for 5 mins exactly. Stir occassionally with a wooden spoon to ensure they are turned over. Have a few spare clean tea-towels ready.
  9. Once 5 mins is up, quickly take one of the dumplings out, and with a fork, pull apart a tiny bit of the end of the dumpling. If it looks like it’s still ‘stringy’ / looking like the dough hasn’t finished cooking, put it back and check again in approx. 15 – 30 seconds. It is very easy to overcook the dumplings – when they’re ready, pull them all out quickly (slotted spoon works well to drain the water at the same time).
  10. Place the cooked dumplings on a plate, and place a tea-towel over them to minimise the heat lost, but retain the ability for the dumplings to ‘breath’.
  11. Serve with melted butter, sweet biscuit crumbs, and cottage cheese.

 

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Rock Climbing @ Mt Arapiles (first/easy climbs after the lead-course)

Bushranger’s Apprenticeship

  • Trooper 3
  • Cartridge Arete 3
  • Trooper Three 5
  • Cartridge Chimney 5
  • Trooper One 7
  • Cobb and Co 6
  • Dead Ned 7
  • Tullahs Tease 6
  • Revolver Crack 7
  • Little Revolver Crack 8
  • Holdup Line 10

Charity Apprenticeship

  • Sincerity 5
  • Charity 8
  • Hope 9
  • Hope variant Start 10
  • Zorro 12

Hope variant Start direct (not in book), straight up where hope variant traverses.
Bolted at runout section. Gear good up till then. 14

Mitre Exploration

  • The Deviant 7
  • The Deacon 8
  • The Priest 8
  • Cloaca (Do as one pitch) 6
  • Exodus (Do as one pitch) 6
  • The Parsons Nose (Do as one pitch) 7
  • Penny Dreadful (Do as one pitch) 11
  • Hells Bells 8
  • Armageddon 10
  • When Kim Was A Girl’s Name 13

Classic Easy Fun

  • Hammer 4
  • Sickle 9
  • Mesa 10
  • Neta 10
  • Tantalus 8
  • Keyboard 9
  • Conifer Crack (first pitch only) 9
  • Piccolo 11
  • Pedro 11
  • Camelot 10
  • Minimus 14
  • Bygone 11
  • Transyvania 11
  • Dracula 11
  • Trapeze (best 11 at araps) 11
  • Didgeridoo 12
  • Horn Piece 13
  • Lone Pine Corner 8
  • Trooper Two 13
  • Hell for Leather 13

First Multi-pitches

After 20 of the recommended climbs (ideally at least a few being grade 10), maybe have a look at some of the smaller multi-pitch climbs. Just make sure you can complete a single pitch, from leaving the ground to back on the ground in 1- 1.5 hours. This is a fairly good guide that you are becoming efficient in your climbing.

  • Tiptoe Ridge 5
  • Introductory Route 5
  • Guiding Light 6
  • Ordinary Trees 6
  • Diapason 8
  • Spiral Staircase 8
  • D Major 9
  • Conifer Crack 9
  • The Eigth 9
  • Siren 9
  • Arachnus 9
  • Arachnus- Minerva Variant 9
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Climbing Trips – gear list

Add / remove some items based on need – don’t bring stuff which isn’t going to be used – eg. if there’s nothing to fry up, then don’t bring a fry-pan.

Cooking

  • Cooking set / Trangia
  • Gas bottle
  • Mug
  • Bowl
  • Cutlery (sharp knife, fork, spoon)
  • Salt & pepper
  • Cutting board (if preparing something which it’s needed for) (the trangia frying pan works well as a cutting board too)
  • Frying pan (if there is a fire & if needing to fry up something)
  • Washing detergent & sponge / brush
General
  • Toilet paper
  • Large water container
  • 4 litre water container + 2 x 1.5 litre water container

Day

  • Water bottle
  • Harness
  • Climbing shoes
  • Helmet
  • Hat
  • Beanie
  • T-Shirt
  • Woolen jumper
  • Rain-coat
  • Warm jacket (for out & about)
  • Pants
  • Shorts
  • Hiking boots

Day-pack

  • Camel-pack
  • Camera (and spare battery + memory card)
  • Go-Pro (and spare batteries + memory card)
  • Guide Book
  • Rack
  • Climbing Rope

Evening

  • Beers / wine / spirits
  • Head-torch
  • Hammock
  • Fire-gloves
  • Axe
  • Camping chair
  • Fire poker

Night

  • Thermals
  • Toiletries
    • Toothbrush
    • Toothpaste
    • Floss
    • Face-washer
    • Small towel
    • Sunscreen
    • Wet-wipes
  • Sleeping bag
  • Sleeping bag liner
  • Sleeping mattress / lilo
  • Tent (& pegs + poles) (or bivy bag + tarp)
  • Pillow (& pillow case)
Food (Meal ideas)
  • Breaky;
    • Muesli & milk (or powdered milk)
    • Wheet-bix & milk (or powdered milk)
    • Hard-boiled eggs
    • Up ‘n’ Go
    • Bread
    • Coffee & milk (or powdered milk)
  • Lunch
    • Sandwiches (bread, ham/salami, laughing cow pieces, salad, cherry tomatoes)
    • Carrot / Cucumber
    • Salami / Kabana
    • Cheese (sliced / laughing cow pieces / baby-bell)
    • Hard-boiled eggs (hard-boil before leaving)
    • Bread
    • Canned tuna (bend the lid to use as a spoon)
    • Pita bread (tuna + cheese + …)
  • Dinner
    • Chunky Soup
    • Pasta (with a combination of; tuna / chicken & pesto / spag bowl / pasta-sauce for one / salami pieces)
    • Steaks (+ broccoli & beans / corn) (needs esky)
    • Sausages + bread + tomato-sauce (+ oil) (needs esky)
    • Stir-fry (packet sauce, egg-noodles, etc) (needs esky for the beef)
    • Cous-cous, vegies & tuna
    • Lamb chops (needs esky)
    • Rice
  • Snacks
    • Fruit (apples / bananas (they don’t go too well in a day-pack though) / pears)
    • Kabana
    • Muesli Bars (Carmen’s)
    • Chocolate (not for summer)
    • Hard boiled eggs
    • Canned tuna
    • Cheese

Other camping gear / stuff to take

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Camping / Hiking meal ideas

Breaky

  • Muesli & milk / yoghurt
  • Hard boiled eggs
  • Wheat-bix & milk (possibly powdered milk in the summer)
  • Bacon & eggs
  • Up’n’go
  • Bread & Nutella
  • Porridge

Lunch

  • Sandwiches (salad / lettuce, cheese, salami)
  • BBQ Chicken
  • Wraps (Salami / Ham / Tuna, Tomatos, Cheese (chedder/laughing cow), Mustard) – http://www.hikingrecipes.com/post/2011/04/08/Salami-Wraps.aspx
  • Hard-boiled eggs
  • Basics – vegies / cheese / kabana / salami / meat)
  • Cuppa soup
  • Canned tuna / tuna salad
  • Sandwiches with cooked chicken (shredded), salad and sliced cheese, with dip spread on the bread

Dinner

  • Pasta with pesto & parmasian stirred through
  • BBQ Chicken
  • Fried rice
  • Chicken korma with rice
  • Stir-fry (packet sauce & stir-fry noodles)
  • Steak
  • Sausages
  • Steamed / boiled vegies
  • Spaghetti Bolognese (take frozen bolognese sauce & dried pasta)
  • Pasta (Risoni) with Salmon, asparagus (or broccolini), parmesan & sour-cream
  • Roast chicken with roast potatoes, roast pumpkin (all these are cooked the night before) & broccolini
  • Steak with cous-cous, broccolini & zucchini
  • Pasta (Shells) with carbonara sauce
  • Soup – eg. packet mix / from home
  • Potato salad (roasted potatoes), onion, bacon, snow-peas

Snacks

  • Chocolate
  • Fruit – few apples
  • Muesli bars
  • Milo – milk, milo & cooking-set (if warming it up)
  • Milo-bars

Ideas / links

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Pasta (with machine)

2 people:

  • 2/3rds of a cup of 000 / Wheat flour
  • 1 egg (water can be used in-place of eggs – 80ml = 1 egg)

Preparing the mixture:

Advice: Don’t use eggs straight from the fridge. Don’t add any salt to the mixture.

Pour the flour into a bowl and add the eggs to the middle of the flour. Mix the eggs & flour till completely blended with the flour, then knead with hands until completely homogeneous and consistent. If mixture is too dry, add a little bit of water, if too moist add some flour. A good mixture shouldn’t stick to your fingers.

Remove the mixture from the bowl and place on a lightly floured table. Cut into smaller pieces with a knife.

Using the machine:

Set the regulator (the knob on the side which controls the thickness of the dough) to 7 (thickest dough).

… TBC