Day 10 - Pork, Baby Spinach and celery salad

This dish was awesome. The recipe comes from Donna Hay but I cant find it now. It had an orange juice dressing and Morry BBQ'd the Pork instead of pan frying, It really did taste as good as it looks!

Day 9 - Morrys choice

Lamb tagine and a Orange and radish salad - OMG Morry you have excelled! We are having a night in watching James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me and have had a magnificent meal. The lamb tagine was slow cooked all afternoon, it was from the Morocan Cooking cookbook. They dont show up in the photo but it had green olives in it and they were awesome. I think we could have added some preserved lemon as a garnish. And yes, the orange salad tasted as good as it looks!

Day 8 - Melt for dinner

Date night!

We went to Melt Pizzaria and had a great night! we sat at the bar and had a couple of wines and ate tapas. We had their Haloumi dish, Mussels and a Lamb sousoukakia (?) which had a tomato and cinnamon sauce and we also ate their fabulous rocket and pear salad. Actually I think rocket is my all time favourite salad ingredient... We took the camera so we could snap our food, but it was all gone before we remembered - only the wine was left.

Day 8 - a bit of baking

Its been a bit of a baking day!

This is the Apple and Cinnamon cake from Silvia's Cucina, which is currently my favourite food web site. I made the cake for a picnic tomorrow with Barnie & Sheree and the kids. The cake looks awesome and here is the recipe!

I also made a loaf of Linseed and Chia seed bread for breakfast tomorrow. 3 things in one day - an all time baking record!

I made an 'Energy Slice' from the February Scrumptuous Magazine. There is one page of recipes that I like, they are from Amanda Blair and are all fabulous. This slice is awesome. I make it for the kids, but Morry & I usually eat a fair bit of it too. This one has sultanas, Apricots, sundflower seeds and Chia seeds, and then its sprinkled with seasame seeds. I didnt put any nuts so they could take it to school, but there is no chance it will last until Monday!

Day 7 - Atlantic Salmon & a rocket salad

Dinner for one :(

Morry is away, so it was home made fish and chips for the boys and fish and salad for me.

Atlantic Salmon is awesome with loads of Dijon Mustard, and a rocket salad. We had a dish similar to this in Bali a few years ago. I think the restuarant was called Rumours(?) and their version of it was so good, we went back the very next night and had it again. This one was pretty good. It could only have been improved by a cold glass of white wine.

Day 7 - Coffee with Deb and some snacks

Deb came for coffee and a chat - well, I think I did most of the talking..., anyway we had some cheese, dried figs, strawberries and nuts while having a cup of coffee on the deck. Very pleasant!

Day 6 - on my own, no dinner for me

I am obsessed with baking bread. So tonight instead of eating, I made this lovely loaf of seed bread! It has wholemeal and rye flour with Sunflower seeds, Chia seeds, Poppy & Sesame seeds, and it even has Golden Syrup! I cant wait to try it. Sadly I'm too tired to have any now so it will have to wait till morning, but I think it will be good with some soft cheese. Maybe poached eggs for breakkie?

Day 5 - Pork chops and rocket, tomato and canellini bean salad

This is from the Donna Hay The Instant Cook cookbook. The dish was meant to be served with veal chops, but Wilson, our butcher didnt have veal and recommended the pork. Perfect substitute with the oregano! Nice one Wilson!

Day 5 - Sultana Bread

Tomorrows breakfast is my mixed spice and sultana bread, which I baked this afternoon. I love it toasted with honey or jam and a cup of coffee!

Day 4 - Chinese Five Spice Chicken

For the next few days we are eating out of the Donna Hay cook book - The Instant Cook. This is the chinese five spice chicken recipe served with snow peas and brocollini drizzled in HoiSin sauce - yum. It took Morry about 10 minutes to serve dinner from the time he got home! Nice work Morry.

Day 3 Tomato, Butter Bean and Chorizo salad

Oh Indira Naidoo, I think I love you!

This recipe came from the November InStyle magazine which I received in the post a couple of days ago. Indira Naidoo has a number of recipes in this edition and they look fabulous. We didnt have any Butter Beans, so used Canellini Beans. This is the first of her recipes weve tried and it was magnificent. Second helpings for both of us!

We had a picnic  lunch in the Botanic Park today with a ploughmans lunch and some fresh homemade bread that I baked this morning. Lunch used up fridge leftovers, sliced roast beef, hot smoked salmon, olives, cherry tomatoes, carrot sticks, some pears, strawberries and a few butter biscuits I made at the same time as the bread.

Day 2 - Chilli Beef and Basil salad

Homemade chiili sauce, beef, fennel, tomatoes, sugar snaps - thank you Donna Hay! Here is the recipe

Day 2 - Scrambled eggs for brekkie, scones for morning tea

Homemade rye sourdough toasted, chopped tomatoes and scrambled eggs - done!

Go the Kenwood! homemade scones with berries for morning tea for the boys! Oh, and a coffee for me

Day 1 - Brown lentil Dhal with yoghurt

Jax Dhal - devine!

Day 1 - Ricotta with fruit and honey

Ricotta with strawberries and blueberries, drizzled with honey - the boys ate the bananas. I served the fruit with some home made bread that had lashings of honey on it.

Im loving the new kitchen mixer, the Kenwood, so I made more bread today to toast tomorrow.