cooking
the after school cookie
Friday, November 7th, 2008Julian worked from home today, and taking pity on my slaving over a never ending pile of washing, disappeared at 3pm to collect Abigail from school. What a treat! And a little window of time to bake some cookies for afternoon tea - peanut, oat and sultana cookies.
Ingredients - this is a small batch good [...]
yoghurt biscuits
Thursday, September 25th, 2008In keeping with the ideas presented by Michael Pollan in “In Defense of Food”, we have ditched all breakfast cereal apart from porridge and vitabrits. Our usual breakfast is a poached egg on wholemeal toast but when there’s time we’re prepared to be adventurous.
Today, we made Martha’s buttermilk biscuits - only we didn’t have any [...]
smooshed strawberries
Thursday, September 25th, 2008We’re well and truly into the glut of the strawberry season here in Brisbane - so I bought a kilo of the gorgeous things yesterday and smooshed them all up in the blender.
I only trimmed them - the guinea heifers love strawberry tips, not the berries, just the leaves, so they had a feast too [...]
almost lost it …
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008… spring that is. Today was SO GREY! And cool and windy. Hmph!
Just a few touches were needed to make me forget that I had been hustled back into a cardigan.
Strawberry water and jasmine in front of the sewing machine ….. mmmmm…. breathe in deeply. Yes that’s spring.
The smooth perfection of a finger avocado [...]
days of beautiful patchwork and mad-lovely family
Monday, September 15th, 2008[ these wee green things are avocado FINGERS - have you ever seen them before? We haven't so we just had to buy some - they're a bit green still. I'll let you know what they're like!]
We’ve had such a lovely afternoon and evening! Cate and I sewed from lunch until dinner - Cate is [...]