cooking - creative little me

mostly food orientated here

just a couple of pics of some recent food that we've been enjoying fruit salad- yummy yummy! after a big lunch on Sunday we were all up for a light and summery tea- what better than fruit salad! Say melons, peaches, kiwi, orange, pear, mixed peel, coconut, almonds, mango

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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

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Spinach Pie

I made a delicious spinach & feta pie, so yummy. Yes, in the thermy. And I didn't take a photo but tonight I made chilli beef with lemon feta for the non vegetarian men in the family- they loved it! I'm just saying I'm working on one of the quilting

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cabled beanies

Did I mention I’ve been making cabled beanies? Well, I’m really enjoying the challenge, which is not really a challenge anymore, just pure enjoyment. I can’t show you a photo yet because I’ve ordered faux racoon fur pompoms to go on the top to give them

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Zoe's beach themed 21st

Happy 21st to our Zoe! who can believe it! We love to hold a party here and she chose a beach theme with blue, sliver & white decorations. The boys bought a beautiful bouquet of white tiger lilies and I decorated some heart biscuits and we made some cupcakes after

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tradie's breakfast

I often make pancakes on Saturday, and make lots so there is leftovers for quick tradie’s out the door breakky. But when you’re not in a hurry look what you can have I finished a crocheted scarf for dad this morning, I’ll have to take a photo

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cakes

we had a bit of a party here for Ben’s brother the other day so I made the cakes… the hazelnut dacquois is gluten free (hazelnut meringue with chocolate cream filling), as we have a few family members that require this, and the lemon tart is a good partner