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How can that be? Where did it go? Surely I’m not grown up enough to be the mother of a five year old. Although in actual fact, after the day we have spent celebrating the auspicious event I feel old enough to be a grandmother. Which I guess technically I am if teen pregnancies were involved […]

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Its been a while coming but here are the recipes from our recent dinner party.
chorizo in potatoes
I read about these in a Gourmet Traveller whilst sitting in a cafe in Sydney recently. I didn’t copy the recipe but it’s pretty simple so I probably did the same thing as the original recipe specified.

2 chorizo
1 large […]

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I consider myself very lucky to have Ankle Biters with quite adult palates. Well there is both luck and good management involved in that. However, I have lately been overcome by a burning desire to throw a good old fashioned grown up dinner party. The Bread Winner is about to vanish to far away ports […]

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Today we had a play day at Son and Heir’s kinder for the Ankle Biters and Dad’s (or other significant male). It was a lovely morning for all involved. The highlight of the morning seemed to be morning tea time. To keep things simple, everyone who came brought a plate to share. At Son and […]

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Because he loves cheesecake and I love him.
Mixed Chocolate Cheesecake
175g packet shortbread biscuits, crushed
75g butter, melted
500g cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup light muscovado
2 teaspoon gelatine, dissolved in 14 cup boiling water, cooled
100g fairtrade orange flavoured chocolate
100g fairtrade white chocolate with scorched almonds
1 cup pure cream
8 seconds at speed 5 will crush the biscuits
2 minutes of 100 […]

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I’m off to yum cha tomorrow for a friend’s birthday. I wanted to take her a little birthday treat and figured a small cake was somewhat apt. Only thing is, my house is rather devoid of sweet things right now as I still have two rogue Christmas kilos to banish from my nether region.
I did […]

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We had lunch today to celebrate the birthday’s of my father and Second Born. Just a simple BBQ. I was on cake duty. So I made the same spice cake from Nourishing Traditions that I made for First Born’s fourth. This time though I made it a photo of the two birthday people. An idea […]

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Party Fare for First Born’s 4th

Son and heir has his fourth birthday party today. A kid’s party at a local children’s farm which I chose largely because it was self-catered. Most venues that do kids party insist that you feed your kids with their preservative ridden muck. No thanks. I have a little more respect for my offspring than that. […]

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