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Easy Pumpkin Soup Recipe

April 25, 2011

This was originally posted this Easy Pumpkin Soup Recipe 2 years ago almost to the date! I never had a photo of the soup at the time, so have updated the post and thought I would share it again. We are heading into the perfect weather for soup. Easy Pumpkin Soup Recipe Ingredients: 2 kg [...]

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End Of School Year Syndrome

December 13, 2009

This Friday the kids finish up school for the year. I am very much looking forward to this. The kids are tired and so am I. It will be fantastic to be able to take our time in the mornings and just see where the day leads. I have deliberately made no plans for the [...]

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Roast Pumpkin Salad Recipe

November 29, 2009

This salad always reminds me of Christmas! We headed out to our first Christmas get together today and I made this to take along. It is a personal favourite of mine. I always take the dressing to add later (photographed below), so the photo above shows the salad without the dressing. I knew that I [...]

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Simple Butter Cake Recipe

November 22, 2009

What I love the most about this recipe, besides how good it tastes is that: it is a one bowl recipe, not need for creaming sugars and all that stuff. it makes a large cake, that makes it through most of the week for school lunches. it doesn’t need icing (alhtough it is extra tasty [...]

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Sharing My Monthly Menu Plan For November

November 8, 2009

Image by LeSmou Imperator It was time again to do the monthly menu plan for the family and I thought I would share the menu plans and shopping lists. (The files list below are all PDFs which you can download.) For me November disappears so quickly, I find once that we pass Melbourne Cup, we [...]

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Kids Favourite Meatballs And The Family Menu Plan

October 18, 2009

As always Porcupine Meatballs was the hit of the week with all the kids at my house. As an adult, I can’t quite see what they enjoy so much about this dish, but someone always chooses it when we compile the monthly menu plan. Porcupine Meatballs with Rice Weird name I know, but this is [...]

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Homemade Taco Seasoning Recipe And The Family Menu Plan

October 11, 2009

I am not sure why it has taken me so long to think of making my own taco seasoning. It is very easy, tastes great and it means that I can moderate the salt and other additives that are going into our tacos! I will still play with the quantities slightly next time I think [...]

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Gnocchi Bake Recipe and The Family Menu Plan

September 21, 2009

I wish that I could say that I make my own gnocchi from scratch, but at this point in my life, I simply just don’t have the time. Thankfully though it is easy enough to pick up store bought gnocchi for a reasonable price these days. My kids love gnocchi and this recipe is super [...]

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Zucchini Slice Recipe And Family Menu Plan

August 16, 2009

Zucchini slice was definitely the meal of the week last week. My children love this meal. It is a very easy recipe to cook, but I find that I have to make so much of it, to feed us all! The original recipe I based this on only used half the ingredients and stated that [...]

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Left Over Meat Recipe and The Family Menu Plan

August 9, 2009

Inspired by Kate’s Beef And Veggie Triangles some time ago, I have found a great way to use up left over meat and make it into a meal that the kids love. I tend to forget to photograph the food before I serve it, hence you see only 2 of the 16 triangles that I [...]

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Homemade Vegemite and Chutney Scrolls

July 19, 2009

1. homemade vegemite scroll, 2. homemade chutney scrolls, 3. homemade pesto scrolls A couple of years ago while at a my friend Annie’s house for a visit, she made these vegemite scrolls for the children. They were a big hit with my kids and I have been making them in various forms for lunches and [...]

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Spaghetti Omelette and The Family Menu Plan

July 12, 2009

A new blog that I have started reading Gourmet Worrier posted recently Froġa tal- għaġin – Spaghetti Omelette. You really should go to Ms Gourmet’s blog and check out her photos of this dish. They look fantastic, unlike mine – but at least you get the idea from the photos about what I was cooking! [...]