The Kitchen Playground

Son and Heir has been invited to a costume party. It’s his first real cstume party. Fairies and wizards don’t really count do they? The theme is to come dressed as your favourite TV or movie character.
Now Son and Heir does have a cheap Mexican knock-off Spiderman outfit in the dress up box but he’s […]

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Sometimes I’m a little slow. I know that the smaller you make things before composting them, the quicker they decompose. So why did it only occur to me today to throw the compost stuff in the thermomix before throwing it in the bokashi bin?

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He needs a name.
Any suggestions?

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I wasn’t going to blog today. Busy, busy, busy and all that. Then I made dinner and decided to share a little snippet of it with you. I love that the simplest little leaf, plucked from my very own garden can totally transform a meal. Which leaf depends totally on what the meal is of […]

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I’ve been absolutely dying to make some sandwich wraps for ages now. But I just never seemed to find the time. Not having a computer for days on end was the perfect opportunity. I made the oil cloth for the inner ages ago when I first got the inspiration. The idea for the pattern is […]

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Yep, that’s right you heard me. I’ve got the cure. I found it in an old recipe book. The Willow Housewife’s Handbook on Cookery, Fifth Edition, 1930. Can you believe the cure has been floating around that long and isn’t common knowledge yet? Crazy
Cure for Cold
Break 3 eggs, shells and all, and juice of 12 […]

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I thought I’d share a non-food recipe with you today. It’s my lice prevention mixture. I’m not sure where i originally got the idea, possibly Simple Savings. We have come through a couple of bouts of lice at kinder and creche totally unscathed. I just spray a little of this onto the kids hair each […]

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