Sydney Children's Festival Part 1 - Grug, Liss dresses up and Wishing on a wall!

Still days after our first visit we're reeling over our visit to Sydney Children's Festival!  I am not joking, this is the best.thing.ever. for kids during the school holidays! In its fourth year, Sydney Children's Festival is set at Carriageworks - and as you walk in you may feel like it's strangely familiar.... it's where they filmed...

Fresh and healthy cous cous salad

I'm a bit in love with mint at the moment, and lucky it's so easy to grow as I've been going through a lot of it lately!  Again I've used it in this salad, and whilst it tastes fresh and light it's really filling with the addition of grilled zucchini and eggplant.  The tomatoes add the right amount of sweetness. We had this for...

Around my house - Ikea style

I'm loving seeing Ikea around your house - I find myself refreshing that post every couple of hours and feeling a mixture of excitement and envy!!  I'm really wanting to complete my ikea loungeroom with two Expedit bookcases - and seeing so many of these in your loungerooms has me wanting them - pronto! So here's a quick whip-around...

Winky wonky plinky plonky honky tonky donkey winners!

What a great giveaway this was right? I actually caught up with Craig again yesterday quite by co-incidence whilst at the Sydney Children's festival. Craig was performing again and we looked quite the groupies!  Eloise was chuffed to finally see him and even got to be his official 'page turner' whilst he sang Wonky Donkey.  I think...

Easy peasy no fail custard sponge cake

On my last birthday my hubby made me the most beautiful sponge cake I'd ever eaten.  I was truly impressed.  It would have me stumped for days.  It would have rivaled any CWA bake-off entrant easily. Where DID he gets this recipe from?  He got it from the internet of course! Best recipes in fact! So some two months later...

Vege patch update as promised!

You must all be in shock at the moment yes?   I've been so remiss in the gardening posts of late and now it seems I'm bombarding you! As I was saying the other day, we planned on spending at least some of Sunday in the garden, and it was half true, meaning hubby did and I didn't.  I cooked and baked.  I did do a small harvest...

Road test SFI October 2010: Spinach and cheese muffins

Every month I'm going to road test a recipe from the latest issue of Super Food Ideas (don't forget you can win a subscription every month!) and this month was a pretty tough choice.   I have earmarked several recipes but this one was a great one I think for either lunchorders or even a snack in the school holidays. The reason I've...

Click, covet and cook! Ikea giveaway...

Hello!  Me.... again! I thought we'd get caught up in all the Ikea Family fun, apart from watching my family run from one end of Ikea Homebush and back, and laugh at my ridiculously bad allen-key skills.... (oh yeah, they are bad!) Here's some quick clues and reminders of our Ikea family challenge experience...it will mean more when...

Ikea day at Frills in the Hills....

You may know well if you've read this blog for a little while I am a dedicated disciple of the Ikea movement.  There is a standard almost lecture on the way to Ikea - my hubby says:  'If it's flat-packed, you put it together'.  Said with the greatest of affection of course....   But what actually happens is -  I...

Sunday baking project - Fruit flan

I'm off to a baby shower today - and thought I'd take something along.  I debated whether a cake or something savoury would be the ticket but I just couldn't decide.  Yesterday when we did a quick farmgate run I saw how beautiful the strawberries were and couldn't resist on picking up six punnets (yes, I know, a bit excessive!)...