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The perfect salami By ANITA McPHERSON
THOROUGH mixing and a good balance of ingredients are two of the key elements to making good salami, according to Tarrawingee resident and smallgoods enthusiast, Andrew “Ducky” Donald. The Wangaratta butcher has been honing his process over the last 10 or so years, getting so good at it, that he now teaches others the secrets of the ancient curing craft through classes that can only be described as salami parties, where groups of friends get together to roll up their sleeves, share some wine and create a batch. And it seems the interest in making homemade salami has grown considerably across the region in recent years, spurred on by the popularity of prime time cooking shows and a growing desire by foodies to revive traditional skills, get back to basics and make the most of prime local ingredients. While pork is the traditional meat of choice, Ducky said many people are getting more creative, experimenting with alternative ingredients in an effort to create their own signature sausage and including proteins like local venison. He said while making salami is a relatively easy process, where many people struggle is bringing it all together. “The type of pig you use is really important but it’s also about the time you put in to mixing it,” he said. “It’s important you put in the right amount of ingredients and mix it through properly – especially the salt and pepper. “The salami is going to be dried in a shed out in the open, and not be refrigerated, so the right ratio of salt is important so the meat doesn’t go off.” Ducky said when the salami is being fitted into the skin it is crucial to make sure it’s packed in tight so there is no moisture or air tapped within.
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Andrew “Ducky” Donald said learning how to make your own salami is a rewarding experience. PHOTO: Emma Hillier
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Holiday fun in alpine region WITH the school holidays in full swing, there is still time to enjoy the fun of the snow season in its closing days. At Falls Creek, September 28 sees a host of school holiday fun with Spongebob Squarepants and his friends as part of the Nickelodeon Snow Cup, taking place at Cloud 9 from midday. The event will include heaps of competitive events or you can also indulge your creative side and build a SnowBob. October 1 sees the Big Dig, an exciting hunt for buried treasure with plenty of activities and prizes to be won. October 1 also sees the commencement of the 7 Peaks Run and 7 Peaks Alpine Ascent events, happening across the Alpine region, where you can challenge yourself by completing various running and cycling routes over the next few months. This weekend at Mt Buller, you can enjoy the Bangers ‘n’ Mash 2017 event. It marks one of the last days in the season with lots of music and a jam session in the Mt Buller Park. If football is your style, you can celebrate Grand Final Day at Mt Hotham venue The General. Meanwhile, at Mt Buffalo, snow cover is disappearing fast in exposed areas. Dingo Dell has limited tobogganing but has sightseeing and snow play. Cresta has a fair cover for tobogganing and very good snow play and sightseeing. The Horn Road has fair cross country skiing. Many of the walking tracks on the plateau still have some snow on them. Tracks like the Monolith and Gorge Heritage Walk have had enough traffic to make them easy to follow. Facilities on the mountain include a café and day shelter at Dingo Dell.
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Spring lawn maintenance NOW is the best time to undertake some beneficial maintenance to get the lawn in top shape for summer. For a lush green lawn, treat your lawn to a spring makeover. Check out the general condition of the lawn. Check for weeds and areas that need particular attention like yellowing, bare patches and unevenness. If the lawn is springy, it may have a buildup of thatch. This is cause by dead blades of grass accumulating around the base of the grass stems. This reduces water and nutrients penetrating down into the soil. Give it a good rake with a steel rake to remove the thatch. Compacted soil can be a problem in high traffic areas leaving spots where the grass won’t grow. This is because the soil becomes densely packed, making it difficult for the grass to take root. Open up the soil to allow water, nutrients and air to penetrate, by sinking the prongs of a garden fork into the ground to a depth of about 10cm and wiggle it back and forth.
◆ SUPER SPLASH: This competitor channelled Batman while competing in the fourth annual National Pond Skim Championships at Mt Buller last weekend. Skiers wore crazy costumes and skimmed across a freezing pond dug deep into the snow on the Bourke Street ski run to the delight of the cheering crowd, and comedian Pete Helliar was among the judges. PHOTO: Andrew Railton / Mt Buller
Keep an eye on snow cams and the website of your preferred mountain, or ask your local ski hire business or tourism information centre for information on current snow conditions at resorts around the area. For up to date information about what is happening at local mountains this winter, see: Falls Creek: www.skifalls.com.au Mt Hotham: www.hotham.com.au Mt Buller: www.mtbuller.com.au Mt Buffalo: parkweb.vic.gov.au
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Diabetes in dogs UNFORTUNATELY, like us, our dogs are able to develop diabetes. Diabetes in dogs is insulin dependent and requires injections of insulin once or twice a day to be effectively controlled. Diabetes at this time cannot be cured, but can be effectively managed with the correct insulin regime, diet and commitment from the dog’s owners. Treatment requires owners to be able to give their pet an injection once or twice every day as well as bringing them into the clinic periodically to assess how well the current dose of insulin is working. There is a significant financial cost involved with treatment and this needs to be discussed prior to a commitment being made to treat the illness. Treatment needs to be lifelong. Detecting diabetes earlier in the disease process and beginning treatment at this time saves the dog from becoming very sick from uncontrolled diabetes. This can be a life threatening situation and also adds a significant amount to the cost of treatment as stabilisation from this point is difficult and time consuming.
The clearest sign that a dog has diabetes is a sudden or gradual increase in thirst and urination. You may also notice that your pet has started having trouble controlling their bladder and is having accidents in the house or incontinence while sleeping. Diabetic dogs can lose weight, or gain weight as a result of the disease. When they are becoming sick from diabetes they will often go off their food and may develop vomiting, as concurrent pancreatitis is a common reason for a sudden crash in their wellness. If you have noticed an increase in your dog’s thirst it is a simple matter of having their blood sugar checked and a urine sample tested to rule in or rule out diabetes. Beginning treatment before they become very unwell provides a good prognosis for management of the disease. Tim Craig BVSc, veterinarian
PETS CORNER THIS week’s pet of the week at Wangaratta RSPCA is Aislin, a three year old female Irish wolfhound cross, who is grey and white in colour. To see more animals up for adoption at the Wangaratta RSPCA, visit the shelter in Connell Street or phone (03) 5722 2874.
◆ IN THE MIX: Home salami makers are enjoying adding their own signature to their sausage, adding ingredients like wine and spices. PHOTO: Emma Hillier
He says he lets people sample some different varieties before they begin so they can get an idea of the flavours they’d like to incorporate. “People like to add their own ingredients like extra chilli if they want it hotter, or fennel and garlic, or a bit of red wine,” he said. “One fella this year put honey in it just to see how it would turn out.” Another important aspect to the production is how long it’s left to dry, which can depend on the size of the sausage and be anywhere from six to eight weeks. Ducky said the longer you leave it hanging, and the less fat it has, the drier the end product will be. “Everybody’s different – some people like their salamis a little softer and might only hang it for five or six weeks, while others are a bit wary of it being soft and think it won’t be cured properly,
so they hang it a little longer,” he said. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating and that’s just what’s going to happen when it’s given the once over by judges in the 2017 Victorian Salami Festival being held at Dal Zotto Wines in the King Valley on October 7. Ducky’s version will be in the running to be named the perfect salami, or Il Salame Perfetto. But he’s facing some stiff competition with entries expected from across the region including the King and Alpine valleys. “I’ve only been making it for 10 or 12 years and I’m sure there are people up in the King Valley who have been making it longer than that – who have been taught by their parents and grandparents,” he said. “I thought, when I’m doing my salami days, everybody says how
nice it is, so I’d like to see how I go in a competition against a lot better salamis – just for my own interest.” And he plans to be there for the announcement, having entered a very tasty “Tarra” special he created with a team at home in Tarrawingee, in the hope of winning the tiny township some kudos after a disappointing footy season. But he says it’s also a way of supporting the festival and the groundswell of interest in making top, homemade salami. “Each year it’s getting bigger and bigger - it tastes better than what you can buy at the supermarket and it’s rewarding because you made it yourself,” he said. “This is back to the old style of doing it naturally – the way it was done hundreds of years ago.” To find out more about the festival visit www. victoriansalamifestival.com.au.
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◆ LIVELY TROUT: Josh Parsons with one his small brown trout caught in a tributary of the Ovens River on a Rapala minnow on the weekend.
Plenty of activity in small streams JUST like that and the warm spring weather has hit. We have jumped from 11 degree days to 30 degree days in just one week. Spring time really is my favourite time of the year. While cold weather through September still has streams’ water very cold, last week’s warm weather stimulated a lot of insect activity on the banks of the streams over the weekend. And the combination of icy cold water, and warm weather led to some fantastic trout fishing right across the region. My friend Josh Parsons and I fished a number of smaller tributaries on the weekend and had some great trout fishing. We did not catch any large trout but did manage to catch a few smaller,
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average size trout from the small streams. Small minnows accounted for most of our fish, although I did get a couple on a rooster tail bladed spinner. We found that the lowland streams were the best, with streams draining higher snow capped mountains being difficult to wade with a lot of water still pushing through. In these faster running streams there were still hungry trout; however wading was awkward and unsafe. In another four weeks or so these lowland streams will start to warm up
and the fishing will slow down. At that point the higher altitude, faster running streams that are hard to fish now will be about perfect. I have had a couple of reports of yellowbelly being caught in Lake Hume, although no red hot reports as of yet. At Lake Moodemere I have had reports, and seen photos of stacks of carp being caught, although when I went over there last week I did not get a bite. I was angling from the bank behind the rowing club with a strong easterly wind blowing into my face, which may not have helped. Moodemere is well worth a visit, and a great place to take the kids to try and catch a carp.
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Medications and managing symptoms HAVE you ever been in a position where you have a symptom; let’s say reflux, and you have taken a prescription medication for it, only to find that months later you come off it to find your reflux is still there? Or have you been prescribed one medication only to find that months later you need another to treat the side effect of the previous medication? Yes? Then this is where natural medicine can help. As university trained naturopaths we explore why your body is reacting in a certain way, for example: why has your blood pressure suddenly spiked, why do you still have reflux etc. Prescribed medication can be lifesaving and improve the quality of life in some clients. However, some medications are often prescribed without an “end” time or without check-ups to see if they are working. This is not an ideal prescription. Some medications have side effects that result in nutritional deficiencies. The most common we see in practice are Sulfasalazine (for bowel inflammation), Nexium,
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WINE TALK
IN MY KITCHEN
Rutherglen Estates
Magic beesting custard cake
2016 Fiano Around $24 WITH ANITA McPHERSON It has brightly golden colour and a warm aroma of stone fruit, nutty oak and a little honey. It has a pleasant weight and smooth feel in the mouth, with flavours of apricot lifted by the zing of citrus and backed by more of that interesting nuttiness. The variety hails from the Campania region of south west Italy and apparently goes all the way back to ancient Rome, although it seems to enjoy growing in Rutherglen too. It’s the texture and warm fruitiness that makes it an ideal partner for the rich and buttery chicken flesh. So glad the chickens are only required for their eggs. Try the range at the cellar door in Rutherglen or go to www.rutherglenestates.com.au.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Oxley Ploughing Match, 1872 THERE was nothing like a ploughing match to draw a crowd of spectators, and one of the biggest matches of its time was held on September 27, 1872 in Oxley. Between 600-700 people gathered at Tea Garden Creek, on Mr P Skeane’s farm, to see the best ploughmen in the district at work.
THIS impressive cake from Dairy Australia sees one thin milky batter separate into three unique textures in the oven, a firmer thick batter at the bottom, creamy custard in the centre and a spongy cake topping. Ideal for afternoon tea on a sunny spring afternoon. For more recipes like this, go to www. legendairy.com.au. Method Preheat an oven to 160°C (140°C fan forced). Line the base and sides of a 20cm round cake pan. In a clean mixing bowl, beat egg whites with an electric mixer until firm peaks form. Set aside. In a separate bowl, beat the egg yolks, sugar, vanilla and water with an electric mixer over high speed for five minutes or until mixture is light and fluffy. Gradually add in the butter until mixed through. Reduce mixer speed to low, add flour and mix in until just combined. Gradually beat in the lukewarm milk until incorporated. Gently fold in beaten egg whites with a large metal spoon. Pour mixture into pan and bake for 1 hour 10 minutes or until the top is golden, and the centre is slightly wobbly. Cool in the pan until completely cold. Combine sugar, water and honey in a small saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar has dissolved. Bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until thickened into a syrup. Allow to cool to room temperature.
Sprinkle almonds over cake and drizzle with syrup, then serve. Hint: The easiest way to toast nuts is to place them in the oven after the cake has finished cooking. Increase oven temperature to 180°C and cook for 5 minutes or until g golden brown.Â
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WHEN our last lot of young cattle were loaded on the truck and taken away to market I was sad to see them go. It doesn’t matter how business-like one tries to be about these things, if you care for your animals and enjoy watching them graze in the paddock, you can’t help but feel something for them. We saw them born, admired how beautifully their mums looked after them and were there when they gained their independence, with some even developing quite distinct personalities. But just as that circle comes to an end and they leave, the arrival of newborns divert your attention and makes you smile all over again. So it’s chicken tonight because beef is going to be off the menu this week. We enjoyed an old fashioned roast with a bottle of Rutherglen Estates Fiano.
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TECH AND SCIENCE
Have you forgotten something today? WITH CHRIS FEBVRE, NEM CREATIVE DESIGNER cfebvre@nemedia.com.au
YOUR brain is crammed with a massive amount of memories that you have formed over a lifetime of experiences. These memories range from the profound to the most trivial. These memories also vary in terms of precision. You might recall all of the lyrics of one song and happily bellow it out as you drive along in your car, while you might be a bit hazy as to the exact directions and location of the place you are driving to. Many events in your life were never stored in your memory to begin with (the name of that person you met at that thing you did at a place you can’t remember), while other memories might be almost entirely false. When you stop and think about it, your memory is a bit of a funny thing, isn’t it? One of the more intriguing things about our brains and our memory is our propensity to forget things. So, why do we forget?
◆ RECALL: Our memory is imperfect and there are numerous reasons why we are unable to recall events and information.
Why isn’t our brain a completely functional memory storage and retrieval organ? There are four major reasons why people forget: retrieval failure, interference, failure to store, and motivated forgetting. Retrieval Failure Have you ever felt like a piece of information has just vanished from memory? A common example of this is a person’s name. You recognise their face, but you
can’t quite remember their name, even though it’s on the tip of your tongue. The inability to retrieve a memory is one of the most common causes of forgetting. So why are we often unable to retrieve information from memory? Decay theory One explanation of retrieval failure is known as decay theory. Decay theory states that a ‘memory trace’ is created every time a new piece of information is added
to our brain. The theory suggests that over time, these memory traces begin to fade and disappear. If information is not retrieved and rehearsed, it will eventually be lost. One caveat with this theory is that often long term memories can be very stable even if they aren’t rehearsed. Interference theory Interference theory suggests that some memories compete and interfere with other memories. When information is very similar to other information that was previously stored in memory, interference is more likely to occur. One example of this might be when you go on holiday to the same location multiple times. It can become difficult to recall on exactly which occasion one particular event occurred. Failure to store Sometimes we simply don’t encode information into long term memory at all. On these occasions, we’ve haven’t really forgotten anything, our brains simply didn’t know it to begin with. A good example of this is the five
cent coin test which you can try right now. Without looking at a five cent coin, try your best to draw, as accurately as possible, the back of the coin on a piece of paper. Did you get close? If you are like most people, the image on the back of the coin simply never entered your long term memory. But the act of studying the coin now to see if you drew it correctly means there is a much greater chance that information will be stored. Motivated forgetting As the name suggests, motivated forgetting is the theory of actively forgetting information. Motivated forgetting comes in two main varieties, suppression - a deliberate and conscious attempt to forget something, and repression - an unconscious form of forgetting. Often, motivated forgetting occurs when the memory is of a traumatic or disturbing nature. Next week I’ll be looking at ways to help improve your memory retrieval, so stay tuned, and try not to forget.