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Sunday, 25 April 2010

Lemon butter fairy cakes and Lest we forget.

Butter making. It is easier to drain the buttermilk off when it is fine lumps. I use a gnocchi paddle which is similar to a butter hand I think. One day I will make gnocchi with it.
Making lemon butter.
 These three love eating pickles and polished off this jar of gherkins between them.
Lemon butter and cream filled fairy cakes.
ANZAC day cake made by my sister Mandy. Before cutting the cake we had a big vintage war song sing-a-long. DH lost his uncle and great uncle in the second and first world wars, both named Edwin. 

Saturday, 24 April 2010

Osso bucco

I'm feeling a little virtuous. I have Osso Bucco ready to go in the crock pot for tonight's dinner. Pretty good for a Saturday.
It's making me hungry just looking at it.











Today's list of things to do. (for accountability)I'm pretty happy with what I got done. :)
Make butter (Ben and Sarah baked cookies and used it all up, lucky I got cheap cream yesterday). Done
Bake a few loaves of bread with a tiger crust.  Done
Make some lemon butter.Done
Declutter some more and move more furniture around.Done
Make some homemade hair wax. (to get DS off my back). Monday's to do.
Grate some of my homemade soap and dissolve it to use in the kitchen.Done
Move a pile of weeds, Monday's to do.
Do some laundry Amost Done
Fill the chicken feed hopper. Done
Anything else is a bonus.

Friday, 23 April 2010

Sunrise.. when the rosy light of morning softly beams across the sky.

This is what greeted me this morning on the way back from my early morning Seminary drop off. Beautiful!

Note the encroaching high density housing in the right hand corner. So far all my direct neighbours are  single dwellings on a 900square metre block. I'm sure it won't last.
My Sis is known to climb onto her roof for photo opportunities like this. Next time I'm getting the ladder :)