Sewing. Motherhood. Domestic Engineering.

We usually have chicken curry but in the absence of chicken I used beef sausages in the curry like mum and dad used to - yummo :) Here is my very no specific recipe but hard to get this wrong: few hand-fulls of frozen stir fry mix 1/2 cucumber, diced smallish bit of diced carrot some cut up baby corn hand full of chopped spring onion 1/2 red onion (which is ACTUALLY purple >__< but I had no white) 1/4 diced capsicum 3 sausages (had no chicken loavers (left overs)) 1 crumbled chicken stock cube 2 heaped tsp of Keen's curry 3/4 cup thickened cream (had no coconut milk) rice Fry the sausages first and then add all veg, followed by curry, stock cube and cream. Add water at any stage if you feel it's needed. Serve with side of rice. I also went a little mental and served with rice AND potato gems...because I felt like it :D All up, prep and cooking took 15-20 minutes. This made enough for mine and Bede's dinners and lunches for the next day.

  I got a pie maker from one of the ladies at work. Using recipes from the manual we were able to cook dinner and desert at the same time!! Yep, 2 Aussie beef pies and 2 cholocate dampers. Both were delicious! Really want to make curry pie next time.  

I LOVE CHIPS AND GRAVY!!   This is me surrendering to a craving...I ate so much I had difficulty breathing and chest pain - well worth it :)

We got a couple of Frank's Alcoholic Ginger Beer's to try as they were on special at BWS. Mega fail on the ginger beer front. I rate this ginger beer 1/5 stars - it was flat, lifeless and very light on the ginger. Similar to a weak cordial experience - just sad and disappointing. Bede gave this 2.5/5 stars with pretty well the same description. Just not a very good ginger beer, sorry Frank :P

Saw Lorraine Pascale's TV show and watched her make Pain D'Epi bread and it looked really easy to make a super amazing. I've never made bread because my husband always does it so though I would give it a chop :P The only place online that I could find this recipe was on Good food, Shared by Lisa Duffy so thanks for that. I won't bother typing the recipe here again, just follow the link to get that. The only think I did different was to add some bread improver (1% of the flour, eg. 100g flour = 1g of bread improver). I did actually knead the dough instead of using the bread maker, turns out it is really good exercise and quite satisfying. Didn't have a spray bottle for the water so I just wet my hands and flicked the water on - worked fine. Finally, eat it HOT with some melted butter! Was very tasty. Will make this next time we are entertaining guests with some dips and pastes.