Today the sign went up !! The auction day is set and once the advertising starts it is a 3 week turn around. I have loved my house but moving anywhere is always an adventure and I love adventures. Lets us just hope there is someone out there who will also love this house and what I have created and that they love it enough to step up on auction day and BID !!
May 2011
05/21/2011
05/20/2011
05/19/2011
Tonight's Dinner
Quinoa and pasta sauce !! I boiled/cooked the quinoa in stock and heated purchased pasta sauce so this was a speedy dinner. Two home grown green peppers were diced into the sauce and I also threw in some marinated mini bocconcinis. It was delicious, savoury and easy to do. There is loads of quinoa left. It really breeds in the pot while cooking so I will have to research some more quinoa dishes.
05/18/2011
Pear and Chocolate
Pears are just wonderful right now - it really is peak pear season. They are glorious colours and big and plump and juicy. My problem is that a big bag for $2.00, whilst a bargain, is not a bargain unless they are all eaten when they are ripe and golden. I diced up 3 last night and made a healthy pear and oat spice cake and then ruined the whole healthy concept but whipping up a big squidgy sour cream and chocolate frosting.
05/17/2011
My Carrots !
These seem like pathetic offerings, I know. You will think I am crazy even thinking these are carrots. They actually are meant to look like this and are very cute. I have lots growing all of this variety, all this shape and size. All roly poly just like the label says !!
05/16/2011
Life Imitating Art
No words really needed here !
05/15/2011
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag Amy !
My youngest daughter is 19 today. She is celebrating with friends in Hamburg, Germany. I know her day will be fantastic. In her honour we had our own German meal. It is not often a sausage makes an appearance in our household but when it does it is greatly enjoyed. Krainer Wurst, sauce and salad made a fine birthday meal.
05/14/2011
Comfort Cooking
The whole of blogland probably knows of my love of comfort foods like rice pudding, custard, crumbles, chocolate anything, soups, homemade bread etc. On and on goes this endless list of comfortable consumable carbs that I and a multitude of others - surely and hopefully - turn to in times of happiness and sadness or at really any opportune moment. I am also a comfort cooker and when I feel displaced or needy I turn to my kitchen to bake. I may not even eat the end result but just seek the solace of the familiar - utensils, ingredients and the warm oven or stove top. I suppose it gives me an escape route from whatever is causing me angst, a chance to concentrate on creating a meal or other delectable, time to think only of the recipe, the method, the outcome and the family who will enjoy it. Today an apple Brown Betty was my focus and not the irksome real estate market.
05/13/2011
Plans for Tomorrow
This is the worst and ghastliest part of selling a house especially in winter. The house has to be vacated by 10am. The house also has to look like nobody lives in it and is the most perfect example of "Home Beautiful". All this is pretty nigh on impossible for me to achieve as I have dogs that don't understand the concept of Home Beautiful and I lack the interior design gene needed to create such perfection. I can do cosy and clean but my house will always looked lived in by man and beast. I have made an effort to declutter but if you open any drawers you will find the most surprising things stuffed into them as I try the clear surfaces of family flotsam and jetsam. And all this for half an hour to allow the general public to traipse through chez moi !!! I can only hope one of them intends to bring their cheque book !!
05/12/2011
Limelight
It's that time of year when my lovely neighbour across the road has the best and biggest glut of limes that she shares with me. Aren't they just glorious ???? Lime recipes are swirling round my mind. I think Lime Delicious pudding is my plan for Sunday or a lime cheesecake. Even a drink of tap water with a big squeeze of lime juice is tempting.
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