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Posted in cooking, Recipes, Vegetable Growing on Mar 8th, 2013
Hi all It’s been a while hasn’t it? Well today I have to share with you the deeeeeelishous spaghetti I made for tea last night. Every summer I hang out for enough tomatoes to make this. Some years I do well & get several ice cream containers full frozen to take me through winter. […]
Today I have a some loaves to share with you… The most devine was this Chocolate Banana loaf with frozen raspberries: Will DEFINITELY do that again. The recipe is here & I added about half a cup of frozen (unthawed) raspberries. My Chilean Guavas (aka New Zealand Cranberry) are ripe : so I decided to try […]
I take so many photographs to share with you all in blog land but I often don’t find the time to get here. Sorting my files, I came across these pictures of the biscuits my son & I made for my mother on mothers day &, although it was a couple of weeks ago, they […]
Posted in cooking, Kids, Orchard, Recycling on Apr 20th, 2012
My youngest has just turned 6. Hubby & I attempted a vintage style party at a local reserve with half a dozen other 6 year olds & their mums. I strung balloons & streamers between the trees, we cooked up bbq sausages & I produced a homemade picnic lunch which included fairy bread, pizza, mini quiche, […]
I just have to share this recipe with you. Its from the from the NZ Womans Weekly site. I saw our plums were all dropping & thought, what can I make? Did a quick google search (my recipe books are getting lonely) & this recipe attracted me with a small amount of butter & the […]
I have just whipped up a little pot of devine jam made with my two favourite things.. Peacherine & Raspberries. It seriously only took 10 minutes. I had just over a cup of fruit, microwaved it with a squeeze of lemon juice for 5 minutes, added 3/4 cup of sugar, microwaved again for 4 […]
Yup, it was scones for lunch on Sunday again. Date this time.. .. so delicious with my homemade Apricot Lavender & Plum Orange jams. I made them in our mini oven. Actually, I use it for just about everything these days. Its so convenient, it heats up really quickly & it must be more economical […]
Posted in cooking on Feb 16th, 2012
Well, I’m a bit late with this post but I just wanted to share the Valentines day biscuits I made for my boys. They are basically Edmonds Belgium Biscuit recipe with a couple of modifications.. like using cherry jam & mixing with some icing sugar for the filling. They certainly went down well
This week I’ve been preserving our plum harvest. While I like to pick them fresh off the tree for eating, we had to harvest them all at once because the birds were having a lovely time eating & pecking holes in them & many were dropping. Its handy having the Silkie chooks in the orchard […]
Posted in cooking, Crafts, Orchard, Recipes on Dec 29th, 2011
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. It was a gorgeous day here in Nelson & we had a picnic lunch with family… as it seems many Nelsonians do these days. Certainly was busy at Rabbit Island. Although, I have to confess I missed setting the table with my traditional gold cloth, napkins, pretty candles […]
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