Daisy Chains and Picnics

  An over the top yet delicious cocktail from The Golden Girls Drinks on the Lanai recipe book. I received this book as a Christmas gift one year and love it, but then again, I love anything to do with The Golden Girls, I am a huge fan. I decided to try one of Rose's cocktails first, this one is most certainly one of the most over the top in the garnish department but looked so awesome I just had to try and recreate it. Ingredients for 1 45 ml vodka 2 tsp dry sherry 2 tsp rich red wine 25 ml freshly squeezed  lemon juice generous few dashes hot sauce pinch celery salt freshly ground black pepper 90 ml tomato juice  pitted black olive, gherkin, cooked cooled prawn, fried bacon strip and celery stalk for garnish Method 1.  Combine the vodka, sherry, wine, lemon juice, hot sauce, celery salt and pepper in a large glass. Stir. Fill with ice. 2.  Check flavour and adjust to taste. 3.  Thread an olive, gherkin and prawn onto a long skewer with a strip of bacon an...

Scott turned 58 today. The kids got him a pair of PJ's from Next Australia. Cerys and Blake made him mint chocolate overnight oats for his breakfast. I cooked a T bone steak for his birthday tea.

I needed more storage space in the kitchen so we decided to build a large kitchen island with bar stool seating. I wanted a better use of the space as well as being more practical, it's quite tight on countertop space when there are a few of us doing things in the kitchen. This is the kitchen before, we are going to store the table and use it for Christmas, but we will get rid of the chairs as they are quite bulky. The bench was also used as storage as well as seating. We added the bench back in 2018 so we have had it for a while now, see post  here 15th August 2025, Scott started taking the existing unit and the storage bench apart, it is at an angle and we wanted to straighten it up. Upon taking the unit apart, we came across this writing, I'm not sure of the date I wrote it, but it was when we were remodelling the kitchen years ago, long before I started the blog. 16th August, he went to buy some supplies and start making up the carcass of the extended unit. He had to repatc...