Katherine's Kitchen

Katherine's Kitchen I have been preserving for 40ish years. I love being in the kitchen sharing the love of laughter and

Personally I'm a beef tallow/lard girl. There are no seed oils im my house. I do have olive oil though.I do render my ow...
19/10/2026

Personally I'm a beef tallow/lard girl.
There are no seed oils im my house. I do have olive oil though.
I do render my own. I do the wet render because I like it. It gives a cleaner product and if I choose I can use it for soap or facecream both of which I have done.
Anyway.... to make things easier I always make smaller peices so I can just grab on and chuck it into whatever. I do 2 sizes depending on what I'm cooking is depending on what size I use....

First lot of homegrown goodness dehydrated...parsley and chives.
19/10/2026

First lot of homegrown goodness dehydrated...parsley and chives.

Oooooo guess what I'm having a go at?Yep freeze drying...A follower has one and is just lives a few minutes away from me...
18/10/2026

Oooooo guess what I'm having a go at?
Yep freeze drying...
A follower has one and is just lives a few minutes away from me.
So excited to be doing cheese for cheese powder....has anyone done it before? If so any tips or tricks please?

Wahoooo the first of the herbs for the year from the garden. Parsley and chives.
18/10/2026

Wahoooo the first of the herbs for the year from the garden.
Parsley and chives.

PLEASE READ....please just LIKE the comment with the organization that you would like to win....please don't comment as ...
17/10/2026

PLEASE READ....please just LIKE the comment with the organization that you would like to win....please don't comment as its just to hard keeping track of votes that way. If anyone comments their vote I WILL NOT be counting it sorry.

Soooo the time has come for you all to vote for the non profit organization that you want to win these fantastic knives.
I'm so sorry I don't have enough for every organization. Each one is totally worthy but I'm just one person trying to make a wee difference.
How its going to work....I will list the organizations in the comments. Please like the comment of the organization that you want to win.
You don't have to follow to vote....I'm all about you following if you wanna learn kitchen/garden stuff because you want to not because of a give away.......
However please share the crap out of this so it gets out there for people to vote.
Share it with your family.... friends.... workmates.... sports groups anybody and everybody.
When you share it please add a note saying they have to vote on the original post on Katherine's Kitchen page.
I'm not going to be following up all the shared posts...not sure I could keep up anyway.
The voting will be open for 1 week to give everyone a chance to vote....not everyone is on Facebook everyday....
I have chosen organizations that do community meals.
Please tag them if you can so they are aware and share with their community.
The organizations are.....

The Bowling Club Dunedin

Mana Greerton

Wai-Ora Trust

Giving Aroha

Belly Full NZ

Delta Community Soupport Trust

So share and vote.....voting closes on Sunday 25th..... just like the comment with the organization that you want to win on the original post on Katherine's Kitchen page.

Sorry its a bit of a long one tonight. I want to cover two recipes in the one post. Its been a big 2 days in Katherine's...
17/10/2026

Sorry its a bit of a long one tonight. I want to cover two recipes in the one post.

Its been a big 2 days in Katherine's Kitchen .... tomato sauce... rhubarb sauce... spinach relish yesterday and today... spicy onion jam and sweet apple chilli sauce.

I started gathering the ingredients for the spicy onion jam only to find that I didn't have any chilli sauce left... just as well I had bought 2 big bags of apples 🍎 yesterday. I was going to use them in the workshop but didn't get around to it. They were ment for today I reckon.

I love this spicy onion jam....its the chilli sauce that makes it. You can use any chilli sauce of your choosing. I just use my homemade chilli sauce. You can make it as spicy as you like.
It uses red w**e vinegar which is a nice change.
When you put the vinger in you think thats not much...but trust the process...the onions cook down and the liquid comes out of them and it just works.
I made a 5 times recipe so it took around 4 hours to reduce down... if your just doing a single batch it won't take as long as that.
The smell of it cooking is just fantastic and fills the house I personallylove it...... however if you don't like that smell you might wanna cook it out side.
It's great with cheese or under grilled cheese on toast. I occasionally have it on top of cheesy mashed potatoes as well.

Now the chilli sauce....This is one of my favorite recipes. Its so adaptable.
The original recipe uses pears 🍐 but you all know me I love experimenting and trying different things.
So far I have made it with pears 🍐 ... apples 🍎 ... pineapple 🍍 .. grapes 🍇 .. fejoias ... 🍑 ... all of which are delicious.
Just a word of warning though if using pineapple or grapes just watch the chilli as they really take on the flavor of the chilli.
I learned that the hard way 😂😂😂😂
You can use fresh frozen or tinned tomatoes.
You can use chilli flakes or paste or fresh or frozen.
The red pepper helps with the colour so is optional.... for this batch I used a pkt that I had in the freezer since last year.. I wanted to use it up.
The citric acid helps with the acidity and also helps keep the colour.
I never bother peeling my fruit...it's all going to get wizzed up any way so why make extra work?
You can use any vinegar of courde if you want gluten free don't use malt vinegar.

As usual the recipes are in the photos.
If you make it up let me know what you think.

Hope your having a fantastic weekend.
Tomorrow im going to dehydrate some herbs from my garden.

Have a fantastic rest of the weekend.
Blessings.

Oooooo look remember those reduced to clear chicken drums that caused me soooooo much trouble at the beginning of the we...
17/10/2026

Oooooo look remember those reduced to clear chicken drums that caused me soooooo much trouble at the beginning of the week?

Guess what im having dinner tonight...im even feed some to another person 😋
I wonder if I'll be well tomorrow 🤔

Mawhahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂😂

PS I'm stillllllll hereeeeeee and feeling 🙂

Oooooo I love a good plant sale...at a local church.
16/10/2026

Oooooo I love a good plant sale...at a local church.

Spicy onion jam on its way..... i now also have to make sweet apple chilli sauce cause im out and I need a bottle for th...
16/10/2026

Spicy onion jam on its way..... i now also have to make sweet apple chilli sauce cause im out and I need a bottle for the onion jam..... yes I'll pop everything up at the end...

Fantastic day today.... another one of my $2 community workshops. Yep you read it right I only charge $2 per person. T...
16/10/2026

Fantastic day today.... another one of my $2 community workshops. Yep you read it right I only charge $2 per person. That's why I do the odd market to cover things like this and do them super cheap so anyone can come.
There are soooooo many people in my community that want to learn...times are tough people are gardening more... they have gluts and no idea what to do with them.
What a privilege to have the gift of teaching my beautiful community.
Today we made rhubarb sauce and spinach relish. They took 3 jars of each home..plus a bottle of tomato sauce and some jars of homemade chocolate sauce 😋
I also finally bottled up my tomatoe sauce that I made a few days ago.

So if your a non-profit and wanna learn some preserving skills....get in touch and let's chat.

I'm pretty sure they had a good time the smiles and laughter are a tell tale sign I reckon.

I'm planning on doing some spicy onion jam this weekend....mind you I've been planning it for a while now 😂😂😂
What are planning for the weekend?

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