merrily onwards

so a few things have happened, nothing big, just enough to keep me busy.  Firstly Ben and I finished our nice relaxing long weekend with a day trip to Victor Harbour, and a quiet day at home Monday doing some house painting (Ben) and some tidying and sorting and crochet (me). This week we tried making gas fired pizzas in the BBQ- freshly made dough, aged 24 hrs, and baked on a ceramic pizza stone.  Inspired by the Adam Ragusea video (Ben gets hungry and watches cooking shows sometimes)

I certainly can't complain about how they turned out- the base was delicious, and the toppings too, everyone ate the garlic and herb one we did first, and then we shared a few with different toppings that we tried.  Like artichoke & feta, tomato and basil, olives with the lot etc...

The only thing was we could only cook 1 smallish pizza at a time, and they took about 10 minutes each- turns out I didn't have the gas tap turned up enough when I turned the BBQ on (me not being a BBQ queen ever) so it was a slowish meal.  Thankfully it's daylight savings now, and eating outdoors is lovely.  We'll definitely try it again.

And yesterday was the big school fundraiser for the year (yes, I know my kids have all finished school now, but it's a good school, and we appreciate it still so we support Heritage College!)  and I was in my usual station selling slices of cake to all and sundry.

This year they tried something different- it was a "night market"- so instead of being from 10:00am- 3:00pm it was from 4:00pm- 8ish, outdoors in the new courtyard area which was lovely.  Fairy lights, garden lights, pallet seating with cushions and candles, a brazier for when the sun went down, you get the idea.

So I had 2 less people helping me bake (school holidays) so I ended up doing a larger share, which was fine because I had all those hours on Saturday morning to do stuff and I was pretty organised because I've done this many times before...

Lemon curd cheesecakes, Hummingbird cake, chocolate/pecan pie, orange/ricotta flan, chocolate/almond torte (the last 2 are GF) and in this picture there were 2 more GF cakes donated by another lovely sister - Lemon custard cake, and rhubarb/strawberry mousse cake.  Plus another friend brought a raspberry/chocolate dacquois (not pictured) and our favourite Muratti donated a cherry baked cheesecake  and a TiraMisu. (Also not yet in the picture) Thanks helpers!