Food, Glorious Food!

Family Food – Fruit Sponge Dessert.

September 12, 2011

Desert or Dessert?
No matter how many little rhymes or tricks I read about I never seem to be able to remember which is which! But who cares how you spell it, as long as it tastes good right?

At the Pickle Farm we like a special treat every now and then, and one of our favourite treats is an easy fruit sponge dessert (I think that’s right?).

Family Food – Cornies Biscuits

August 15, 2011

I was invited to brunch last week. I don’t often get invited to ‘brunch’. I guess I am not really a ‘brunch’ kind of person. I mean in a perfect world I’d eat breakfast at 10am every day, so who needs brunch? But not only was I invited by the lovely Louisa from Brand Meets [...]

Thousands of Biscuits!

July 25, 2011

It’s no wonder that my girls like to roll their eyes, I’m sure it’s hereditary. When they both looked me dead in the eye and quiet seriously told me that could only eat tiny teddies in their school lunches because my home made biscuits were too big and took too long to eat, I’m pretty [...]

Lovely Links – Baaaconnn

July 24, 2011

I don’t like bacon, but the darn stuff is all over the internet at the moment. I used to like bacon, then I got pregnant with our middle child and suddenly even the thought of bacon made me want to hurl. That was more than four years ago, and I still can’t stomach it. The [...]

Face Biscuits

June 27, 2011

When life is insanely busy, when you have no roof or walls on your kitchen, when you’ve promised your boy that you will bring a birthday treat to preschool…. what do you do?? You make face biscuits that’s what you do! You’ll need… A packet (or two) of marie biscuits, or any plain round biscuits. [...]

Ten Survival Tips for Renovation Cooking

June 20, 2011

I’m currently ‘cooking under plastic’ or that should be ‘trying to cook under plastic’. The current state of our renovations means that our kitchen has only one wall and no roof. The current state of the weather means that the tarpaulin that is supposed to be saving the kitchen from the elements is slowly being [...]

Recipe – Tuna Bake!

May 30, 2011

Mondays are mental days in our house. I spend most of the day driving back and forth between our two local towns dropping people at events. The last event of the day is the girls’ ballet and tap lesson which doesn’t finish till 6pm, so I really need to have dinner done and waiting for [...]

Pizza Pockets – Cheap and Easy Family Recipe.

May 9, 2011

Saturday night on the new menu plan is ‘comfort food’ night – which really translates into something cheap and easy that everyone likes, or Pizza Night! The one draw back to making pizzas is that I only have a small oven and to make enough pizzas for everyone I have to cook them in two [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Printable Christmas Cheer
December 14, 2011

We are in need of a little brightness around here, and some Christmas decorations that Noah can’t pull down and destroy… Click on any of the above images to download an A4 (letter sized) printable poster to add some Christmas cheer. Or shrink them down and print them onto cards and share the joy. Check [...]

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2011 Christmas Printable Series – Print and Fold Gift Boxes.
December 12, 2011

I think I am done with my Christmas shopping…. hopefully… maybe. We still have a few hand made gifts to finish off but I don’t think I need to go near another shopping centre (well except for food) till after Christmas. So now that the gift are all organised I need to wrap them. This [...]

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2011 Christmas Printable Series – Jar Labels and a Strawberry Jam Recipe.
December 5, 2011

Lots of rain + some sunshine = bucket loads of strawberries! Over the past few weeks we have had strawberries coming out of our ears. We have made muffins, and smoothies and cupcakes, and pie and we’ve eaten so many fresh strawberries I am actually kinda over them (I never thought that would happen), but [...]

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