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?