Life in the fast lane...

 

I tried a new bread recipe last Friday night.  I used Tina's recipe for bread (she has a lovely homey blog) - and the bread rolls were a success. Recipe and video tutorial here...

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Also on Friday, I tried a recipe for Thai Chicken cakes - these were really delicious and we just had them with a salad.  Recipe here... 

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Last night we had a Beef & Peanut stirfry (meant to be chicken but we had chicken 2 nights before so...).  It's a recipe from the AIS Survival for the Active Family book.... I couldn't find a link but it is very similar to this recipe here ...

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Last Saturay night we held our staff dinner in our new showroom...

It was like setting up for a wedding ... but we only had 3 tables!

I wanted it to look nice so I ordered bowls of flowers (so each lady could take one home), had candles as the centre piece...

It was a bit hard to jazz up the room as it is so clinical and new...  Balloons helped a bit...

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I stuck to a blue, green and white/cream theme as that is the company colours...

Certainly looks weddingy!

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We had caterers come in and cook a lovely 3 course meal ....

Dessert was a selection of bite size yummy goodies.  We had quite a late night and didn't get home until 2.45am!

 

On Sunday, after cleaning up the showroom, we had a visit from 2 British girls, friends of a friend of ours.  We treated them to dinner, bed and breakfast on their way through.

We took them for a quick trip through the dunes to our coast to show them the sights.  It was raining so we didn't get out of Ruby.  Then I did a Chicken curry, homemade naan bread and golden syrup dumplings for dessert.  Phew!
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Dianne and Laura - I made them some Anzac biscuits to take with them...

  
Yesterday morning I made some Cherry Shortbreads to give to my mother...

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After all that, I was happy to sit in my recliner and watch MKR then Who Do You Think You Are...

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Cheers - Joolz xx