Daisy Chains and Picnics

  I love a salad when we have a barbecue. I usually make them with what leftover vegetables I have in the fridge. The other day Scott came home with some homegrown tomatoes and cucumber from Sally and I had baby potatoes and feta in the fridge so these were the basis around this salad. Ingredients for salad 500g baby unpeeled potatoes 2 medium tomatoes, cut into eighths 1/2 cucumber, cut into 1-inch chunks 1/2 red onion, very thinly sliced small handful crumbled feta Dressing 1/3 cup olive oil 2 tbsp lemon juice 1/4 tsp dried oregano 1/2 tbsp honey Dijon mustard 1/4 tsp sugar 1/2 tsp salt grind of pepper 1 small clove garlic, crushed Method 1.  Cut potatoes in half, if they are large cut them into quarters. Add to a pan of cold salted water. Bring to the boil, reduce heat to medium-high and simmer until the potatoes are tender all the way through when pierced with a fork. Drain and dry for a few seconds over low heat. Allow to cool. 2.  Meanwhile, whisk dressing ingredien...

Another fab recipe from The Golden Girls cookbook, a hot cup of creamy cocoa to warm you up on a chilly morning. This recipe serves 2 mugs. This is one of Rose's recipes. A mugful of this gets Rose's motor running on a chilly (?) Miami morning. What is not to liked about Rose. She is sweet, kind, wholesome. Unwittingly gullible and can never get a joke, but bless her, she is a loving, gentle, curious soul full to the brim with St Olaf stories. Before you pour the delicious hot chocolate into your mug add a dab of chocolate spread or peanut butter to the bottom of the mug. Ingredients 1/3 cup evaporated milk 3 Tbsp unsweetened dark  cocoa powder 2-3 Tbsp sugar 2 cups milk Toppings marshmallows marshmallow fluff whipped cream mini chocolate chips Method 1.  Whisk the evaporated milk, cocoa powder, and sugar together in a small heavy saucepan. Place over a medium-low heat and whisk until the sugar and cocoa are blended with the evaporated milk. 2. Pour the milk in a thin steady s...

Seriously, I can't believe it is Easter already!, honestly, where does time go?. Below are some photos of our Easter decor. There are 170 eggs for the girls to find tomorrow 🥚🥚🐣🐥 We didn't do anything for Easter Sunday as Scott and I were busy doing things around the house. The girls did their egg hunt. Jodie found 76 and Cerys found 82 so we are still missing a few, I was surely very good at hiding them this year! 😂

We finally received our invitation to our Citizenship ceremony on 17th February 2023. The date is set for 29th March 2023. There were people from 14 different countries getting their Citizenship on the same day we did. We had to stand up and read aloud the Australian citizen pledge, if we didn't say it loud enough for them to hear then we didn't get our citizenship! We were all called up either one at a time or per family to receive our citizenship certificates. Jodie got her citizenship on 2nd November 2016, she needed it for college. So that's us, as of 29th March 2023, finally became Australian Citizens!