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Menu Planning

Slow Cooker Roast Lamb

August 29, 2010

A few weeks back my lovely friend Cath had a fab guest post here on Planning With Kids – Slow Cooked Roast Lamb. In this recipe Cath cooked the roast lamb slowly using a french oven. I unfortunately do not own one of them (but to my family reading this, I would be [...]

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Father’s Day Gift Ideas To Get Dad Cooking!

August 23, 2010

In Australia, Father’s Day is only a couple of weeks away on Sunday September 5. When I stumbled across this post from Smitten Kitten, I thought this Practical Gift Guide would be a great reference list for those of us who have a foodie in the family or who are wanting to [...]

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Homemade Chocolate Freckles

August 15, 2010

I love a chocolate freckle and I particularly love the larger freckles that you can buy at speciality chocolate and lolly shops. After enjoying one recently, I thought to myself that there is no reason why I couldn’t make them myself. So I gave them a go on the weekend for an adult [...]

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Slow Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup

August 9, 2010

Don’t you love it when you make something new and it is (a) easy and (b) the kids come back for seconds???? That is exactly what happened with this slow cooker chicken noodle soup. Now it certainly is on the plain end of chicken noodle soups and I can’t do the chicken carcass [...]

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Cheats Pies

August 1, 2010

Even though I always menu plan and I love it because it make my life easier, there are some nights when I look at what I have planned to cook and I think “I don’t want to cook that” or “I don’t want to eat that”. And as I am am the cook, I [...]

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Scone Making With Kids

July 25, 2010

I have found that making scones with kids is one of the easiest recipes to cook in the kitchen with them. Don’t expect perfect scones meeting CWA standards, but with this very simple recipe the kids can pretty much create the mixture by themselves and with some guidance roll out the dough, shape them [...]

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Serving Many!

July 19, 2010

I have found this little combination a great meal to serve when there are lots of children about. Out of the three items they are bound to like one of them and we serve it banquet style so the children can serve themselves. It also easy to cook and doesn’t require the cook [...]

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