Sunday Baking

What started as Food Friday, and then a vague attempt at Saturday, became Sunday Bake day. And all done in the morning before I went on a very successful retail therapy session with a friend in the afternoon. (Enter 3 scarves, I lurve scarves!, 3 tops & jacket for the wedding).
I blame the end of daylight saving for my productivity, as I almost didn’t couldn’t be bothered when I saw the clock said 8am this morning. Then I remembered it was actually 7 (thank you phone!) and I was re-vitalised. So into the shower and coffee machine on and I was busy busy… and more busy.
I made a chocolate slice with pink icing and marshmallows – Thanks mr 10, white choc chip biscuits (minus the nuts, add extra choc chips) and a choc peppermint slice which is actually choc vanilla slice due to no peppermint essence – again, Thanks mr 10 for choosing this one. Then as I was making quiche my sister rang to say she was visiting mum and dad with her kids and could I pop over. Of course. Shoot, panic stations. Well, this is what we have teenage kids for – they hung the washing and turned off the oven in time – pity they didn’t choose to do the dishes. Ah, but they have to wipe and put it all away now though.
And because it’s mum’s birthday tomorrow, there was cake!

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Food Friday

Just a quick one for this weeks Friday post. It’s been a busy food week for me. Last week hubby didn’t arrive home till late on Friday night, so no food review post could be done. With only 3 days home it was certainly more rushed than usual, but it was the best three days.
Monday evening we went out for dinner and then a movie with friends. While we do this, or are at least able to do this whenever we want, this couple still have a few young ones, so it was a real treat – adult conversation and no whinging/arguing from little people.
We went to the Soho for a pub meal which was up to its usual standard, beautiful. Our meals consisted of steaks, a salmon and the biggest beef schnitzel you’ve ever seen! Decided not to harass everyone with taking pictures of food.
The movie, Elysium, was not bad, not as good as we thought, but definitely not the worst.

I’ve done some baking this week, and will probably do more tomorrow, pizza bases as always and a spinach quiche for Sunday lunch. It’s Fathers Day here on Sunday and my boys will be having lunch with my parents and I will call in for afternoon tea on the way home from my market.

Last night, right when I should have been thinking about prepping dinner, I decided I would do some baking. Not a good idea. By the time dinner was ready there was no room to move in the kitchen and once all was finished, the sink was full, the stove covered and the bench looked like a bomb had hit. Before things got messy, I am usually a ‘clean’ cook….

My new mixer is getting a good workout and I am loving it. It’s red, and awesome!

I am looking up recipes that need serious beating just to use it. With only one bowl for the mixer, its bath time in between recipes

I did end up with a yummy, but soft, rhubarb shortcake and some chocolate biscuits.

Happy TGIF! The weekend is here and is promising to be beautiful and warm…. hitting a lovely 20+C for both days.
Welcome Spring!
Jennifer.

Alfresco Saturday – at home

Mid morning. On the verandah.
Sunny, but fresh with a little breeze.
Hot coffee and homemade bikkies.
Nothing better.

Jennifer 🙂

Lots of glorious biscuits

As promised I gave the super biscuit recipe to my sister and we bought the ingredients so her kids could do some baking.
I definitely did something wrong as hers came out much better than mine.
There were caramel choc chip, choc chip, mixed nuts and coconut with pink and blue colouring. And they were good!

I’m looking forward to making another batch and experimenting with flavours.

Enjoy 🙂

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Sunday Baking

I had promised Mr 9 we would do a bit of baking today and had bought all the ingredients for this recipe I posted about here.
I stuffed up a bit but they turned out alright in the end. I used a quarter of the recipe and put the rest in the freezer for another day when I had more time. It is stated you can get 100+ and we got around 25, but they were quite small. I would rather bake them bigger, as making them this small you’d eat the lot in one sitting. The flavour was perfect, not too sweet at all. I topped mine with crushed chocolate peppermint balls, and the flavour is subtle but perfect.
I will be passing this one onto my sister when we visit this weekend. Her three kids love baking.