The Kitchen Playground

En route to Son and Heir’s school, we ride past a fence with an overhanging fig tree. Surely we all know by now how much I love figs. It is possible, that enough time has been factored into our morning ride to raid the half of the tree overhanging public space.
As well as gracing our [...]

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Just a quick one from me tonight as I am seriously knackered. This is not the best ice cream I have ever made but it is certainly good. One worth bearing in mind if you ever need to make ice cream for someone allergic to eggs. I love that it uses honey rather than sugar [...]

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Since October, Lil Miss has had her heart set on a teddy bears ‘nicnic’ for her third birthday. What mother could deny such a humble request? Not this one anyway.
To avoid the whole saga of cleaning the house only to have it destroyed by hyped up preschoolers, we elected to picnic at a wonderful park [...]

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Crazy old month January. Between keeping restless Ankle Biters amused, an average of three birthdays every week and bottling the wonderful abundance of produce that keeps crossing my path, blogging is very neglected. It’s almost 10pm, I”ve just sat down and frankly I’m too knackered to blog properly. So I will leave you with a [...]

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Not for the first time, when shown my latest creation, the Bread Winner wondered aloud what possesses me to do these things. How does one take that? Is it mere bemusement? Derision? Disgust? I justified this creation with the notion of children and festivities and keeping the Ankle Biters amused in the lead up to [...]

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It’s been a couple of weeks since this dinner party. Somewhat uncharacteristically, I didn’t take a single photo. It took all my energy to get the food to the table. Little did I know, I was being hit with a nasty virus which took complete control of me sometime around midnight that same evening and [...]

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It was apt that I started my cook book challenge with Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cook Book No. 3 as we had dinner guests last night. As it was a mid-week affair, I forwent the full degustation catastrophe and settled for appetisers, sorbet, main meal and dessert. The main meal was the featured cook book [...]

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Market day makes me want to stuff as much of that freshly picked vegetable goodness into my gob as humanly possible in one day. As each day of the week passes by, they are that little bit less fresh, that little bit less nutritious. Always good until the end though.
This morning, I got caught up [...]

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I’m fairly sure mine is different every time I make it. It’s the most wonderful meal in a bowl. The dressing for tonight’s version was inspired by Jane Lawson’s Tossed’. The love affair continues.
As the Bread Winner waltzed out the door tonight he threw a final comment at me, “W’s coming over tonight”. The man [...]

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Sometimes, an odd scrap of leftovers leads me in an unusual direction. Today was one of those days. It all began with 6 sheets of leftover spring roll wrapper. I’ll tell you in advance, the gamble paid off. Dessert was delicious.

Strawberry, chocolate and camembert dessert rolls.
makes 4, I only made three because that’s how many [...]

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