Food & Cooking

The Birthday Week

May 10, 2013
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It was Annie’s birthday last week. We had cake with the outlaws inlaws: Cake with our close friends (Cake by: Fernando and the Sugar Sisters):   And cake at a birthday sleepover party:   So.Much.Cake.   With an honorablue mention to Birthday Week’s Most Valuable Player: Robert the Roomba Thank you Robert. Without your assistance none of this [...]

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Surprisingly good Coleslaw

May 2, 2013
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It was Annie’s birthday party with all the inlaws coming over, we had ordered a bunch of pizzas but I thought it might be good to put out some salads. Annie is obsessed with Caesar Salad so that was an easy choice but what else could I make? The Aussie Farmers Direct fruit and veggie [...]

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Easter Biscuits

March 28, 2013
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We’ve been having fun making Easter Biscuits again a good distraction from toys lost at school.     Even better the OT really liked our Easter Biscuit decorating as it is great sensory activity, helps build fine motor skills, pattern planning and all sorts of good things. Play is awesome

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Gluten Free Pizza Loves You

March 24, 2013
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It really really loves you …. say I’m not the only one seeing the pizza heart. So we had friends over today for a belated birthday celebration for Heidi, they were not able to attend her pool party due to indoor swimming pools being a bad place for those who are immune suppressed (things I [...]

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Raspberry Cheesecake Cupcakes

March 5, 2013
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Heidi’s homework this term has included the option to do some cooking. This is a recipe she picked out herself from “Cookbook for Girls” by Denise Smart….. which despite the stupidly sexist/ gender stereotyped title is a great little cookbook, lots of step by step visual instructions which Heidi finds really helpful. Rants aside and [...]

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2013 Year of the Pav – Lemon Custard Pavlova

February 10, 2013
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Now that I had mastered the Classic Pav the next Pav on my list was the Lemon Custard Pavlova because with this one you used up the egg yolks in the custard. Thrifty Win! It needed a good selection of basic ingredients – eggs, berries, sugar, cream and lemon. This recipe takes Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaages to make, lots [...]

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2013 The Year of Pav – Conquering the Classic Pav and Cinnamon Loaf is Yummy

February 3, 2013
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I did it! I conquered the Classic Pavlova only took me three goes… oh wait is that the third times a charm thing in action? Anyhoo I did it !!! That requires the “We Did It” dance! Check it out, all crunchy brown on the outside and fluffy goodness on the inside…. Yeah. When I [...]

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A Feast of Leftovers

January 30, 2013
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We are getting towards the end of the pay cycle and the fridge is looking dreadfully bare. I pulled out all the things that could possibly make dinner yesterday, some oldish potatoes, a punnet of very sad looking beans, some limp rhubarb that was just a bit slimey on one end, plums that were bruised [...]

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2013 The Year of the Pav – with Awesome Experimental Salad

January 26, 2013
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We had friends over for a belated Christmas dinner and I thought I would attempt to impress them with my awesome Pavlova making skills… which are very much still a work in progress. I made the Classic Pav mix up and thought I had figured out how best to get it to brown in our [...]

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2013 The Year of the Pav – The Basic Pavlova

January 19, 2013
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So remember I was saying last week I thought Pav was just egg white and sugar? Well during a recipe exploration quest with Annie I pulled out my Womens Weekly Basic Cookbook and ta-da a Marshmallow Pavlova recipe that was made from just egg whites and sugar. I whipped it up one night while the [...]

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