Cold Wet Sunday

What to do with children that are tired of being inside?

Give them some cookie time!

Lumpy Bumpy blobs of fun

Inspiration at the park

Last week I went to a fantastic children's park and was very inspired 

when i saw a group of Japanese mothers pull out their lunch boxes.

Everything came in little boxes and looked gorgeous -
there was not a single cut sandwich in sight. 

Instead there was lots of freshly made rice snacks and steamed vegies 

like broccoli and corn cobs and various unidentifiable items. 

So today for lunch I ditched the sandwich and cut apple for these 

salmon and sesame seed rice snacks. 

Love chunks at Christmas

Today I spent most of the day in the kitchen, after having gone shopping for supplies with Eva.
I wanted to say thank you to the carers in my children's lives and what better way than to give them home made sweeties. I got the idea to make bite size Christmas cakes from Kim a friend from mothers group - it's such a simple recipe and so appealing to the eye. It took no time at all to create them.



Just add orange juice to an existing fruit cake -
I used an apricot fruit cake.
Add enought to make slightly moist
and roll into balls.
I used the tiny patty pans,
then decorated with white chocolate
and sprinkles.
YUM!


Then to the task of making honey comb for the fourth time!
and I finally got it right, after reading loads of recipes and methods, and after making a couple of toffee
like batches, hit the jackpot with this batch.
Coated in dark cholocate,
they have become little love chunks.




Melt in the mouth and impossible to resist (which is why they are out of reach at the moment!)


Finished product! Viola!