Fangorn Farm Christmas Cake
I love making Christmas cakes. This year I have been about 6-8 weeks behind schedule in my Christmas cake making. Usually I like to make them in the spring school holidays but I am going to blame the fatigue and sickness associated with my pregnancy for my Christmas cake making delay. I made two cakes […]
Wholemeal pancakes with banana
If you happen to be at Fangorn Farm on a Saturday morning when the woodstove is cranking, you will be offered pancakes for breakfast. I love pancakes. They always seem to feature in favourite moments in my memory. Corn fritters as a kid. Banana pancakes (like the ones I made today) in Bali. The amazing […]
Bread
Out of laziness, I made bread. I couldn’t be bothered leaving the house in the wind/rain/sleet/snow to go to the shops just for a loaf of (probably stale) bread. It was so good, I keep making it! It’s so easy and so very, very tasty! You don’t need a breadmaker (ours is broken anyway) and […]
I made zucchini soup
I made soup today. Zucchini soup. It was good. So tasty and hot. We ate it for lunch today, despite it being the middle of summer. Georgia has been asking for zucchini soup ever since our first zucchini appeared on the vine. We have so many zucchinis now. Speaking of summer, our summer here has […]
Easy peasy creamy tuna and veggie pasta bake
I’m sharing this recipe with you because my children enjoyed it so much that they began singing about how awesome I am and what a great chef I am. Although it is not original by any stretch of the imagination, and it is neither complicated nor time-consuming, it is a good hearty meal that children […]
Hash brown crust quiche
hash brown crust quiche I am a big fan of Martha Stewart, and when my friends have jokingly called me ‘Martha’ because of something I have said or done, I am not-so-secretly chuffed. I recently saw this pin on Pinterest. Hash brown crusted quiche! With my penchant for using frozen pastry for my quiches, I […]
Homegrown – and another quiche recipe
Elora and I went out to the vegetable garden after taking Georgie and Matthew to school. We looked at how the veges are faring. Some of our Asian and lettuce mixes have either died or been taken by birds and instead of about 60 green plants we have about 30. Something has pecked off the […]
Kid friendly meatballs
There’s not much that’s not kid friendly about meatballs, but Matthew and Elora can be fussy with their food most of the time. We eat very healthy dinners, and healthy dinners don’t always appeal to small children, for some reason. They seem to like chips and sausages and easy food like that. I find it […]
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