Can't wait for the weekend!

Our parklands are stunning at the moment - late blooming roses and the brightest green manicured lawns...

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Monday night Chow Mein for one...

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Thoroughly enjoying the petit point - I steal 10 minutes here and there!

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http://www.mattersofthebelly.com/honey-mustard-rosemary-chicken/

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Remember those apples I was given?  I stewed them up...

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I had to add sugar because they were eye-wateringly tart...

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They cooked down beautifully...

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Five tubs to go into the freezer - each one big enough for a pie for two! 

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Do you screen-shot things you find interesting? I save lots of things this way.  This curry will be dinner one night next week...

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We have had some welcome rain overnight and today it looks like a bleak winters day. Yay! We are due for the break of the season. 

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Dinner tonight! Back on 5/4 i made a lasagne and threw it's twin in the freezer. Perfect Friday night dinner!

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We are off to Halls Gap this weekend for the Grampians Grape Escape Food and Wine Festival. 

Can.not.wait!

Cheers - Joolz xx

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Anzac weekend...

Our new fireplace hasn't been finished so we couldn't light a fire in it yet ...

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Good news for a girlfriend of mine - she received a bad result on her breast screen exam and had to go to Adelaide for further tests.  Luckily, it turned out to be some cysts but no cancer. I sent her off with some choc chip cookies and a banana bread.  I'm so pleased and relieved for her. She and husband are about to go overseas for 6 weeks so it was the last thing she needed!

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Friday night we had both our babies home (and Kirby's boyf) so I threw a beef curry together, plus a kachumber salad...

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yoghurt raita...

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flatbreads...

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...and banana sprinkled with lemon juice and black pepper.

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I was gifted some rhubarb...

...granny smith apples and a dozen eggs from staff at work...

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I made a delicious apple and rhubarb crumble for dessert.

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Saturday morning I was up at sparrows, baking a batch of Anzac biscuits...

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...and scones to take to a morning tea...

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...for my Mum's 86th birthday.

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Bri and Kirby with their Nana.

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Later in the afternoon, Gus lit his fire pit and we sat around it with a few drinks...

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Nate and Kirby

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Just chillin'...

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I made this cob loaf dip...
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/38092/cob+loaf+spinach+dip
 

Gus cooked this huge beef roast...

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Sunday morning I made these Brookies - they're brownies, but cookies!

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This morning Kirby and Nate went to the dawn service for Anzac Day. They said it was quite a big turnout which is good. I woke up with a sore throat so I didn't go.
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April 24th was my big sister's 45th wedding anniversary. I was her little flower girl, aged 6.  Happy Anniversary, Marilyn and Brentley!
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Today, our visitors headed back to Adelaide, including Gus as he has a car to deliver and a meeting on Wednesday.  
 I am enjoying the quiet and plan to have Chow Mein for dinner then an early night!

Cheers - Joolz xx

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

 
 

 

Sally is at it again...

I have been a bit neglectful of Sally in the past few weeks so I gave her a feed on Thursday thinking I'd do some baking on Saturday...
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She was a bit sluggish but started to rally on Saturday afternoon...
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I ixed up the dough later in the evening and let her do her stuff...
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I've been wanting to try turning/flipping the dough during the rising so I got up and turned her a few times...
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Not a great rise by this time of the moring so I left her to it...
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That's better!
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Plopped out on the bench...
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I gave it a gentle knead then shaped it and cut it in half...
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I shaped a loaf and 6 rolls...
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I'm having  a bit of trouble with the slashing, the skin is rubbery...
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But the results were still really good!
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Gratuitous aerial shot...
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 Cheers - Joolz xx