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

Happy Birthday, Mum!

My 4 sisters and I put on a pooled luncheon for Mum's 82nd Birthday...
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We invited her sister-in-law and two of her life-long friends - when they get together we call them the Golden Girls!
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We had homemade pumpkin & vegetable soup with bread rolls to start, followed by sausage rolls, toasties, mini spring rolls and quiches and a chicken platter ... dessert was fresh fruit kebabs, baked sour cream and apple slice, chocolate slice and no one really had room for the cupcakes! Most were taken home to enjoy later...
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This is mum with her great-grand son, Brax who was born in January - cute little chubba bub! She had a lovely day. We presented her with a photo book of family pictures (ordered from Snapfish - go here to see what you can order.
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I'm a bit weary after all that - lots of cup of tea making and dishes stacking! I'm in for an early night - it's been raining here on and off all day so I'm hoping for a few heavy showers tonight.
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Night all, Joolz