my cutting & creating: June 2011

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Happy birthday to John ...

So today was John's birthday.

We had a lovely staggered breakfast (with everyone getting up at various times LOL) ... John, Lachlan and I had Julie Goodwin style poached eggs and John & I had ours on Five Loaves sourdough ... yummy!

Then we had a tidying up kind of day at home ... John planted the five weeping Mulberries out from our northern French doors and I made the bed up in the "new room", tidied up the "new room" a bit more, did some washing and planted a few things in pots and made a birthday cake.

The birthday cake today was from Real Living magazine ... Choc Fudge cake ... it was delicious!!

For dinner tonight I made Craig's Thai Prawn Curry from the most recent Masterchef magazine (Issue 14) ... absolutely delicious!! John's new favourite prawn dish!! I added red capsicum and snowpeas.

I can't find any links to the recipes at the moment :-(

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Reading part 2 ...

So I started Elizabeth Berg's book yesterday and finished it today ...

... I rarely read a book that quickly but it was a good read and we had a lazy day at home in front of the fire on the lounge!

So tonight before tea I read a few pages of Miss Scarlet's School of Patternless Sewing ... so far so good!!

What books have you read lately that you could recommend?

I love to read and for as long as I can remember I have enjoyed it.

It is something that I want to instill in our kids. For their school reading they moan and goan, especially Jack, but I try to buy books every so often that are suitable for them to read for "school reading" in addition to their school readers and library books.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Books ...

I have been reading Cleaving for a while now ... I have enjoyed it but it has taken a bit to get through it. The first 3/4 of the book are about butchering and her 2 relationships ... with her husband and boyfriend. I found the butchering quite interesting but a bit detailed at times. The last 1/4 of the book has been really interesting as she travels to several countries. I haven't finished it yet but on the whole it has been quite good.

Then I went to our new library this week and borrowed 3 books!

Kate Atkinson

Elizabeth Berg

Kathy Cano-Murillo

I have started Once Upon a Time, There Was You ... so far I'm enjoying it a lot!

I first read one of Elizabeth's books after reading Karen's "review" in August last year, a book I really enjoyed. I discovered today that Elizabeth has written 22 books - WOW!!

So I'll see how I go ... only 37 pages in so far!

Friday, June 17, 2011

Guacamole ...

Ali posted this link over at Facebook ... yum!! It's from Taste.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Breakfast ...

From Martha Stewart

Fastest fudge cake ...

This looks yummy ... from Fine Cooking

Nutella / Greek yoghurt dip ...

Creamy Nutella Yogurt Fruit Dip Nutella Yogurt Fruit Dip

Over at babble

Sunday, June 12, 2011

bunny ears ...

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Fireside fun!

tears at the bus stop ...

Introducing the Hoodies ...

For Amanda's "Same - on - Same" challenge over at Escape2Create.

Give me the wonderful ordinary everyday ...

For Sue's "scrap the quote" challenge over at Escape2Create.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

chocolate mousse ... in 5 minutes!!

Photo and recipe from Cafe Fernando

Tacos ...

New free e-newsletter ...

A joint collaboration between Mel & Tamar ...

From Mel's blog ...

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