Pumpkin Pie – the non cheating way.
For Brad’s first Thanksgiving in Australia, I had to find a good Pumpkin Pie recipe. That was not as easy as you might think as, at the time, the vast majority of recipes included a ‘can of pumpkin pie filling’. I have never really been a ‘can of’ kind of girl, and have always made [...]
Poached Chicken with Herbed Tomato Sauce
1 heaped tablespoon rock salt 4 small chicken breasts a generous handful of flat leaf parsley leaves 12 large mint leaves zest from 2 lemons left to sit in 1 tsp rock salt 2 large ripe tomatoes, finely chopped 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 300g green beans, trimmed Put the heaped tablespoon of salt [...]
50
50 Originally uploaded by Kerri McCrorey I have been dreading this number for years, but now that it’s here, I’m really quite liking it. I’m comfortable with the fact, for now, that today I am 50. Brad, of course, will be running his tail off spoiling me rotten, as usual. In fact at midnight he [...]
The Blah Factor – Well Overdue
This is a post for you Sam Let’s hope that a glut of overdue stories will keep you occupied while waiting for the tardy one. The period of my pregnancy from about 34 weeks onwards, I called ‘The Blah Period’. I was tired, looked and felt like a sack of crap and just wanted the [...]
The Caffeine Test
Thanks to Frog Ponds Rock for this one Kelley, I hope you’re proud! My daughter tested “Near Death – have delusions of Godlike Power”. I must have done something right! Created by OnePlusYou
I’m so nervous, I could puke!
In 40 minutes I leave to take my 20yr old baby girl for her driving test. She is the last of the gaggle to have to attempt this and I should be used to it by now, but my guts are in knots. Yes, this is her on holidays with us in Hawaii, Christmas 2001. [...]
Our house – is a very very very fine house
With two cats in the yard… yada yada yada Our house is about to go up for sale. For those who have been keeping up with the program, we have done a lot of work on it over the last 12 months. It’s such a relief to have all the work done and to have [...]
Lovin’ the Laundry!
I’m a very sad little person! I have a new laundry and I’m totally in love. *happy sigh* I have NEVER had a nice laundry. I’ve never had a bench in my laundry. The laundry was always the ‘tacked on’ thing in every house I have owned/rented/squatted in. Even the house I grew up in [...]
My Kids are Special!
Its been the celebration season around here this month. We’ve had two birthdays, an anniversary and Easter. It’s been hard work for the poor kids who have to party all night long and come home to bacon and eggs at 6 in the morning….. dragging all their friends whose parents arent so gullible. These are [...]
