pancakes for breakfast

My favourite recipe of all time for pancakes comes from my Family Circle Kid’s Cookbook, which I’ve had since I was about 7. It clearly says “pancakes” but the product is definitely crepes. Which in my opinion are much much yummier than pancakes anyway. I made these for our breakfast on Saturday morning, yum.

What a lovely afternoon

Today I hosted another Tea Party, this one being much more successful than the last (where everyone canceled and it was my mum and I eating all the finger food by ourselves haha! disaster). 11 gorgeous girls came over (including school friends, work friends, mums and my 90 year old Nandy) to play ladies, and [...]

Hamburgers for Dinner

We had giant hamburgers for dinner. Bun, tomato sauce, mustard, cheese, hot chilli meat pattie, more cheese, pineapple, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, avocado, bun. YUM. Giant! I had two. See my last post about always eating too much.

Homemade Bruschetta

Yesterday I was in Coles and saw this yummo looking Italian bread which inspired me to make Bruschetta as an entreé to dinner last night. I forgot to get Olive Oil when I was there so had to improvise with peanut oil, but it wasn’t too bad. I buttered the bread (no oil, remember?), spread [...]

Handmade Christmas Cookie Gifts

The other day I tried my hand at baking some Christmas cookies to give as gifts this year, and I must say they turned out pretty cute! I just used a simple butter biscuit/cookie recipe and cut out circles and star shapes using standard cookie cutters. My initial idea was to create little Christmas trees [...]

Bread Pudding Recipe

As part of my to do list I’m trying to cook new recipes to build my repertoire (ie, learn how to make lots of yummy food because I’m a piggy). So when mum asked me to bring a summer pudding to our early Christmas BBQ last week like I had made for thanksgiving, I asked [...]

Yummy summer pudding recipe

I bought an Australian House & Garden magazine recently (Home Living is usually my mag of choice), and I stumbled upon this delicious looking mixed berry Summer Pudding recipe. I decided to have a crack at it to take to Thanksgiving Dinner with me, and I was really surprised at how easy it was to [...]

Thanksgiving Dinner

Because JA’s family is American, every year we have a big thanksgiving dinner at his mom’s house. For Aussies out there who don’t know what it’s about, it’s basically a celebration of the Native American’s saving the pilgrims from starvation by teaching them how to grow stuff to eat. So it’s like Christmas, with heaps [...]

Halloween party!

As I’ve posted a few times already, I decided to throw a Halloween party for my 25th this year. I think I like planning and decorating for parties almost more than attending them, that’s the fun part! So I spent a few days leading up to the night putting up spooky decorations (which my dogs and cats promptly took down) and made a cool haunted house cake.

In the end I had a really great time, about 20 of my good friends came and ate and drank and were merry! I’d set up a bucket to bob for apples, apparently it was too easy because the bucket was too shallow, but it was pretty funny watching the boys anyway.

You can see the whole set of photos on my flickr account, otherwise, continue reading to see a few snaps.

Pasta Salad Recipe: Best you’ll ever taste

This is a recipe I sort of made up about 4 years ago. I think it’s probably based on something I had once and I just tried to remember the ingredients when putting it together. I’ve got it down to a fine art now, everyone loves this salad. It goes perfectly with snags and steak [...]