It was workmate J’s birthday last month, and we celebrated at work with morning tea. She’d been busy baking and came to work with two different slices. The first was a chocolate and ricotta slice, topped with chopped hazelnuts. The second one was a coconut and raspberry jam slice. What an impossible choice – which […]
I really felt like baking mini banana muffins on Monday night, so that’s exactly what I did. The recipe I use is Banana Muffins II from Allrecipes. I couldn’t find my old printout of the recipe, so I googled it to get another copy. I’d just weighed out the flour for sifting and was about […]
It’s my birthday today! :) I made cupcakes last night which I’ll bring in to work today for morning tea with my workmates. I iced them with chocolate butter cream icing and decorated them with an assortment of chopped Flake chocolate, Maltesers and Smarties. Hmmmm, which one do I prefer? Maltesers… …or Flake? I got [……
I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned that Jac and I will be going away on holiday from the 22nd of December. We’ll be flying out to Sydney, staying a couple of days with her brother and then heading up the coast to stay with friends of ours (remember our English mates L and D who […]
On Tuesday evening after I’d finished my pork steak dinner, I got to work to bake the mini muffins from the batter I’d pre-made on Sunday. The recipe made around 48 mini muffins. I iced them all with mocha icing, and then topped some with chopped roasted unsalted peanuts. The whole process of filling mini […]
While Jac was at hockey this afternoon, I did a little baking. I made up some of my triple chocolate muffin mix, which is now in the freezer. I’ll take it out of the freezer on Tuesday morning and leave it in the fridge to thaw out so it’ll be ready to be made into […]
Last week I bought a bunch of bananas that ripened unbelievably quickly just on the journey home in the car on a warm sunny day. I was in a banana sort of place when I bought them but as the week went on I just didn’t feel like eating bananas, and they sat in the […]
We did a cleanout of our pantry recently and rounded up forgotten bits and pieces that we needed to make use of or throw out once and for all. Although she was still quite stiff and sore, Jac had been itching to do something other than just lie on the couch watching DVDs. As I […]
Sweets After the main course, Mum thought it would be good to go for a walk before dessert, and so there was a mass exodus as almost everyone took off down the street. I stayed behind to hang out with Grandma (I’d already exercised for 45 minutes in the morning, so I figured it was […]
Well, there’s no goose… I was just singing that old song, Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat Please put a penny in the old man’s hat… Last week, I heard an Aussie version of Jingle Bells on the radio which I thought was really cool. It went something like, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, […]