Fridays Photo Edit

Proudly brought to you by Kelly over at Our Footprints on the world This is how I am spending my Friday night, and what is a reading session without yummy smelly candles? A book read in candle light and in peace is my ideal night!...

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Thursday Theme Challenge: Golden

Prep time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Makes 12 Ingredients 2 cups self raising flour 1 large carrot, peeled and grated 1 medium zucchini, trimmed and grated 100g sliced ham, finely chopped 1 1/3 cups grated tasty cheese 1/2 cup milk 3 eggs 60g butter, melted Method 1. Preheat oven 200 degrees Celsius (180 degrees Celsius fan forced) and grease a 12 - hole (1/3 cup) muffin pan with cooking spray. 2. Place flour...

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No TV!

Back in June we unplugged our TV! Since then we have gotten out outside antenna fixed, thrown away our set top box and have only been watching DVD's or Videos.. maybe three a week. It's been absolutely fabulous. The kids are playing together more, making their own fun and are wanting to go outside heaps more too. When the TV was on Jiedyn would sit in front of it more than 5 hours a day. I'm so glad he is exploring the world around him and teaching his sister new things along the way. They have also started getting they're...

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Pineapple Fritters with Sugar

Ingredients:  1 Tin of Pineapple Slices Cup of Flour Half Cup Water An Egg  and Sugar.. Naturally! Method:   Pre-heat Deep Fryer to 140+ degrees Add Flour, Water and the egg into a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer. Dip Pineapple slices in the batter and slowly put them in the Deep Fryer (slowly to stop them from sticking to the bottom). Cook until golden brown Sprinkle with sugar...

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Mum's Curried Sausages

Ingredients Chicken stock cube 4 sausages 1 onion 1 tablespoon of flour 2-3 tablespoons of curry pinch of parsley Rice 3 cups of water 3 veggies (peas, corn, carrot, potato, pumpkin etc.) salt and pepper Method Rice Place a table spoon of oil into a pot Pour in rice and mix so that every grain of rice has oil on it Constantly mix it on high temp until most rice pieces are a lighter white (being careful not to burn it) Add boiling water until it is a cm over the rice Boil then cover it and...

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Family Update

Okay so I thought while I had a little minute to myself I'd let you guys all know what our family has been up to these past two weeks. The past week we have sent out postcards to places like India, Croatia, Germany, The Netherlands, Canada, South Africa, USA and Taiwan. Jiedyn is learning so much about the world around him we even got given to us a pair of chop sticks, which I cant seem to find. We have been seeing alot more of Uncle Allan, he came over three times this week to help me out while Jiedyn's been sick with asthma...

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