I need help naming my newest 'mouth' to feed

Hello! Anybody still with me here? We're on the sourdough adventure days 4, 5 and 6 - making our starter - you can join us anytime!  Days 1, 2 and 3 are here. I'm having fun on this little adventure, every day it changes a little bit and I can see (and smell - not offensive, just yeasty!) progress!  I'm told that I need to give...

Some days I wish it was still like this..

When they talked so quietly. Laura and Olivia 4 years ago today.... *sniff...

Raspberry Rice Rectangles - no baking!

Hello! You're going to love these ones if you have kids, or even if you don't!  These are a great addition to a lunchbox or to take to a BBQ or have a birthday party.  I know these will have an encore performance at Pink Ribbon Day for sure! They take about 15 minutes to prepare so really, no baking required! Ingredients: 280g...

Sunday Baking Project: Chocolate Nougat Cake

Now don't have a heart attack when you read the ingredients people.  Yes, there really are Milky Way bars in there AND a cup of sugar!  My first thought was - oh no, waaay too sweet for me.  But it actually makes quite a large fluffy cake so you can make many serves. I made two - one for my Nannys' birthday last week and...

SnapHappySaturday: My little star..

Look at my baby enjoying school This is her star outfit to perform 'Brilla, brilla, piccola stella'  (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Italian) At computers in the library - maybe the makings of a future blogger..? After all, she CAN write recipes..! Here she is in her classroom and with Nanny (my grandmother) on Grandfriends day She...

Sourdough Adventure - making Starter

Hello friends! I hope you got your rye flour and plain flour, jar at the ready.  If you haven't there's still time! About the starter: The starter basically will perform the same purpose as yeast does in conventional bread.  It is basically fermented flour and water.  There is a method to the madness  - and you love...

Fast Food on a Friday: Finger licking chicken wings

Now I will admit,  on paper/on webpage this recipe looks like nothing special.  Don't let it fool you.  Reminiscent of Nando's Lemon Herb chicken this one will get an encore performance in your house.    My kids were bitterly disappointed that I didn't have enough for thirds, and our playdate visitor proclaimed that...

Tweet! Easter Cookies

I'm getting in the Easter spirit at the moment, looking forward to Eloise having her first school holidays (although I do have premonitions in the first couple of days I might be counting down 'til they're over... !) Hubby having days off work and generally spending time as a family. Ok, these don't look like they come from a bakers shop...

Preserve Me: Lemon/Lime Cordial

At last months' farmgate and and visit to Bilpin I went totally overboard. Limes are usually so expensive that when I saw them at $1.00 a kilo, and then was offered free ones at the orchard, I was a lime glutton with no shame. I have done my best this month to use them - friands, lime and coconut cake, splice iceblocks but I still have more....

From The Slow Cooker: Brandy Pork Sausages

My initiation to pork sausages was at the age of twenty-one.  I had to fly to the other side of the planet to be initiated as an official pork sausage lover.  It's hard to find a pork sausage to equal that of the gorgeous varieties they have in the UK and I do miss them so but this takes me back to my pork sausage nirvana - a cold...

Make it this week: Easter Egg Hunting Basket

Every year I say I'm going to do this and every year slips by and I end up buying easter baskets that fall apart anyway! We had lots of fun putting these together but a tip, get this prepared the night before or whilst the kids are happy doing something else because it takes about 15 minutes to prepare and kids can get painful with excitement...