Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Sunday, October 24, 2010

salads




we had a family bbq on friday & i enjoyed spending the day making salads & alternatives to sausages for the bbq - i mean i don't mind a barbie but surely we don't have to only eat snags? more photos of poppies but this one is proudly growing in our garden.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

chick pea & yellow flavoured day




yesterday i made my favourite winter soup 'Minestra di Ceci e Porri' for lunch - mmm it's so good with all those chick peas, leeks, spinach & what not. there were some chick peas left so i made them into hummus, i was pleased about that because i then got to use the little turkish bowls i bought from the dump shop. these daffodils were for mum to give to her aunty margie who sadly is living in a demetia unit here in nelson, i do hope they brightened her day.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

native greens





we had a going away party for the head teacher of te pouahi last night, she is a truly inspirational woman & much respected so she will be greatly missed. i made a few bits & bobs for the venue, in this arrangement the box is covered with bark that was laying around our woodpile & filled with harakeke & manuka. some of the girls made some flax flowers & we shoved them into pots of beech, taken from the mountain of winter trimmings piled up in our garden. i also made these lemon tartlets to take for shared kai, they were supposed to be mini lemon meringue pies but we won't go into that - suffice to say i am a lucky girl to have a granny in town.
i've corrected the spelling mistake & reprinted my business cards, originally i wanted to do them on recycled brown card but there wasn't any in the whole town of nelsonnyjim, in the end i printed them on watercolour paper so each card can be hand painted individually. wallah

Monday, May 31, 2010

winter is here





the first day of winter & it's all about food. winter lentil soup & nigella lawson's ginger marmalade bread & butter pudding for tea,(this photo is pre-cooking) then chocolate truffle fudge cake to accompany cups of tea, mmm. the winter lentil soup is just right for a cold winter night & is a annabel langbein recipe, i use her recipe book great food for busy lives a lot for our family.
epilogue: 2 out 0f 3 children did not eat their soup & 3 out of 3 children did not eat their desert. never again.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

platters to share with friends




i went to my friend's home last night for some b'day celebrations, i took this autumnal platter filled with vegetables & decorated with leaves off our ornamental grape vine which looks so vibrant & RED at this time of year. my plate was a wedding present, made by kathryn smyth, she also made these caper juglets which i have long admired.