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Friday Fragments

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Hosted by Mrs4444. Time for the end of week mental declutter that is Friday Fragments. Let’s see what’s floating about in here shall we? **** I did my 6th Kiva loan this week, which apparently makes me an average Kiva lender. Must do better. I’m going to stop buying Macca’s coffee on work mornings and instead do a Kiva loan each month. There’s a perfectly good coffee machine at work anyway. **** The church notice board that I was venting about on Thursday last week has gone from offensive to merely bemusing. It now reads “Without God the world is … Continue reading Friday Fragments

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Chicken noodle soup

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Today was not a good day, but it ended well. In fact dinner was pretty much the only thing that went right today, even Caitlin liked it. 250g thin egg noodles1 tablespoon of olive oil1 teaspoon crushed ginger2 teaspoons minced garlic1 punnet of fresh baby corn, cut into bite sized pieces6 mushrooms, sliced150g sugar snap peasbreast meat from a BBQ chook, chopped1.5L chicken stock (Don’t want it too strong or salty, I used 2 Massel salt reduced cubes, which are supposed to make 500mL each, in 1.5L of water)1 tablespoon soy sauce1 teaspoon sesame oil Cook the egg noodles as … Continue reading Chicken noodle soup

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Feel Good Friday

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Feel Good Friday is a weekly meme hosted by The Girl Next Door Grows Up (click the button above to go visit her). This week Liz at Eternal Lizdom has stepped up to the mark to host while The Girl has a break. I’ve seen Liz and others post to the meme over past weeks, it’s a nice warm fuzzy idea and I could do with some warm fuzziness, so I’m joining in. I’m going with the list prompt – 5 things that made you really happy this week. 1. Our Yulefest holiday At the end of last week we … Continue reading Feel Good Friday

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I do have a life. Really.

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I don’t normally spend Saturday evening writing schedules, doing meal plans and thinking about grocery shopping, but that’s what I’ve been doing tonight. See, I had this sudden realisation that the week ahead of me is going to take some very careful scheduling if we are going to survive it, especially as I managed to completely fail to notice that Tom’s drama school’s local 3:30pm and 6:30pm shows will clash with Caitlin’s school dance group’s 45 minute drive away 5:00pm performance next Saturday. It’s a good thing I’d also failed to buy tickets for the dance performance thus making decisions … Continue reading I do have a life. Really.

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Menu plan Monday

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I can’t get my printer to work so I’m putting this here instead of pinning it to my notice board in the kitchen. It’s probably no more likely to get looked at here than as a file on my laptop, but it makes me feel better. Day Date Breakfast Lunch Activities Dinner Mon 7/6/10 Cereal, toast and fruit Vegetable & barley soup 5:30pm DramaGrandy for dinner Bangers and mash Fruit & yogurt Tues 8/6/10 Porridge Packed lunch at office 8:15am TutoringSports uniforms for Tom & Cait7pm P&C Band meeting Spaghetti Bolognese + saladRhubarb & apple crumble Wed 9/6/10 Cereal, toast … Continue reading Menu plan Monday

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Scones

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When I was a kid scones were always on the menu at Grandma’s house. I’m told she used to make prize-winning cheese scones back in the day and I certainly have vivid memories of cheese scones for afternoon tea in the lounge room at Epping. I can remember exactly how they tasted, and the Tupperware container that the left-overs were put away in, and wishing I could have just one more but not asking because I knew my mum and my grandma would both frown on such an expression of greed. I don’t cook cheese scones myself, mostly because the … Continue reading Scones

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Anglo-Saxon cooking spree

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This little book has been sitting on the shelf in the kitchen for a while now waiting for someone to feel like embarking on a culinary adventure. Around about lunchtime today Adam declared that he was going to cook an Anglo-Saxon feast for dinner. So he did (with the odd anachronism thrown in). The book is Tastes of Anglo-Saxon England by Mary Savelli and the blurb on the publisher’s website reads thus: These 46 easy to follow recipes will enable you to enjoy a mix of ingredients and flavours that were widely known in Anglo-Saxon England but are rarely experienced … Continue reading Anglo-Saxon cooking spree