I’m sorry! I appear to have forgotten to post for a week! In amongst all the holidays it’s been a busy one and we’ve achieved a lot! We’ve had a long weekend, and the Easter Bunny found us.
At least that’s how I’m deciding to explain all the chocolate that showed up on the dining room table anyway. Would you like to know more?
You’d never guess there was a fertility festival coming up!
All those hand-made chocolates. Would you like to know more?
I can honestly say that I hit a new low point with my cooking on Giftmas Day.
I had a strong start and gathered around myself coffee, milk, bacon, eggs, and brie. I even had the coffee before I began cooking!
Something I’ve been wanting to post here for a while and this seems like the perfect opportunity here; what is with Dutch bacon?!?! It’s see through!!! And cured … differently.
But I combined it all and set up for mini frittatas for breakfast, so we’d have something tasty to open presents with! I mean, have something tasty to eat while opening presents!
I did it again. I knew when I poured them that they’d be too full, but I pressed on!
Oh well! They were still damn tasty when combined with the bottle of Veuve!
It was a different Christmas, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology we caught up with everyone at one point or another.
One of the strangest things was watching the international date line move across the world while tracking Santa with NORAD. I’m used to him setting off, reaching Oz within 2 hours, then I go to bed and wake up and am too busy relaxing to think about it. This year while chatting with friends, Santa reached New Zealand, then Australia … and then I had to watch him cover ten more hours of world time zones … New Years Eve is going to be odd … I also suddenly felt really sorry for Alaskan children.
On that note, I hope you all had wonderful Christmases, and are all continuing to be safe, happy, and healthy!
(PS – the less said about the duck, the better *hangs head in shame*)
I’m sorry I skipped last week my faithful readers. There just hasn’t been much noteworthy going on to report.
This past weekend was a quiet one. There was some cleaning up done around the house, and I finally catalogued most of my yarn stash on Ravelry.
We had some friends turn up to help us move some furniture which doesn’t really make for interesting blogging or photography.
We did go down to one of our local cafes for breakfast on Sunday though. In our little corner of little Italy, it’s a French café. Who’d have thought?
There were ristretto and orange juice each,
followed by a mushroom and pesto frittata for myself, and a ham and cheese omelette for himself.
All in all a lovely way to spend a few hours soaking up some sunshine and reading. I’d recommend it to anyone! ☺
I got it into my head to cook something new and exciting the other night. I made fudge first because … I felt like it. I used this espresso fudge recipe because it looked fairly fool proof.
It was. So much so that I managed to forget to take any photos of me making it.
Finished, it looks like this
and it tastes delicious!
I had also been staring at this spinach bacon and brie mini frittata recipe for a few days and thought it would be a delicious addition to my work day lunch box. Full of protein to get me through the afternoon.
So I gathered together my ingredients
Chopped everything up
And began putting it together
I was impressed with just how quickly and simply it all went together! Though those of you with much experience cooking will spot my fatal flaw in this picture.
Once cooked, they looked and tasted delicious! I have plans to make them in future substituting the bacon for smoked salmon, which I think will also work remarkably well.
So did you spot my flaw?
That’s right. Baking powder. Baking powder was my undoing. You see (for those that don’t know), I filled each compartment to the top and had 3 empty. But baking powder makes things rise.
Yes. I spent the next day cleaning the oven.
Rookie mistake *shakes head*
ghoti industries 