I've been cooking like mad this week. I cleaned out the cupboards and placed on the kitchen bench all the packets of random stuff that needs to be used up before it expires. The theory is the packets stay on the bench in an annoying way until I use them or throw them out. I made a delicious lemon polenta cake (Kate Lamonts recipe, but the ( Read more... )

The best thing about it? I got to watch Star Wars next to my husband ( Read more... )

Terrific, as always. It feels like a happy blur now. I enjoyed the panels I went to- the depth of preparation by the panellists this year was impressive. I was glad that people liked the kids costumes that we made for the masquerade (a Creeper and Minecraft Steve ( Read more... )

( Tl;dr Mostly a great year )

There are three groups of people who buy a thermomix (and three groups of people who divide people into three groups of people ( Read more... )

Julia and I have joined fe2H2O s mother and daughter quiltalong. I started off wildly confused, and now feel wildly enthused. catundra generously gave me a cutting and sewing tutorial, so we are ok for the first steps. We have purchased mat, cutter, rulers and material. Julia wanted a blue/green theme, and she was drawn to brights, so this is the material we ( Read more... )

Really this post is for redbraidsSo...I borrowed a thermomix for a couple of weeks. It was interesting using it without the emotional investment of having just blown $2k. My impression of it is that it is sturdy, well made, well designed, and equivalent to other high end kitchen appliances. The other high end kitchen appliances would all be retailing ( Read more... )

We're a bit late to this party, but anyway..husband and I have been bingeing on Game of Thrones ( Read more... )

We're time rich and alarmingly cash poor around here at the moment, so I have buried myself in cooking, reading, jigsaw puzzling, toddler wrangling and studying ( Read more... )

Its been a while....

Crafting sunday next weekend 21st April at 2pm at my place. Bring your craft, kids, partner, and bathers if you would like a swim.