PORK

SO we made Pork Loin that was supposed to be stuffed with peaches garlic, wine thyme and butter, then wrapped in proscuitto. However I obviously cant read ( or had two small distractions with me while I was doing the christmas grocery shop) and picked up 2 tins of pears not 2 tins of peaches. So it was Pork stuffed with pears butter thyme garlic and wine wrapped in proscuitto.
It turned out pretty good. I made a gravy from the juices and I even strained it to made it smooth! ( Im usually to lazy for that kind of malarky)
It was a tasty tasty feast, served with baby spinach pea and feta salad.

sour faces

I have been making some lemon puddings recently and the boys have been helping. They have both wanted to eat the lemons after I have grated the rind and juiced them. Here they are on the floor eating lemons pulling sour faces. Crazy boys. I cant say Sebastian was the one to lead the charge on this one either!

Invention Test

when steph was staying we did some baking Masterchef style, these were black forest cheesecake muffins - they were pretty good

let the celebrations begin

in a momentary lapse of concentration earlier in the year I said to Sebastian "how bout for you birthday at preschool we make planet cakes cause you have the planet locker at preschool"

"Yeah Mum that would be sooo cool!"

3 months later - so how about those planet cakes Mum?

so I got home from work late monday afternoon and had 24 cakes baked and iced with fondant planets on the top by 7.30pm. phew! Needless to say Derek cooked dinner that night

the best cake ever

a pear and almond with a hint of cardamon upside down cake

Buzz the cake

Here is the progress from humble packet mix to the light of a certain 3 year olds life!
It certainly was a hit and he asked about 5 times a day to have another look at the buzz cake before it got eaten today. We have some left over buzz face I will say I was pretty chuffed and surprised at how it turned out. Hopefully this one will go in the Lane family book of cakes. Thanks Jen for the food colouring texta and the skin colour food colouring.

Happy birthday Daddy

Pancakes for breakfast - the best pancake recipe from a BBC food magazine circa 1992. American pancakes that are so big and fluffy, they are the best. a perfect morning on the deck followed by lunch with Andrew and Martine, Dinner at Old Macdonalds and a game of bowling with Debbie and Anthony and Lachlan ( georgia and elliot just watched)
A lovely day had by all. I managed to keep Dereks present a secret this year and didnt tell sebastian - I did tell him that we were knitting him a jumper so Sebastian just kept repeating that to him! Ha Foiled!!!

Chocolate cakes for Robert

In the midst of the bathroom renovation I decided that we needed to do some cooking. So we tried out a new chocolate cake recipe that called for blackberry jam. I said Sebastian could lick the bowl - special practise for getting that tongue tie nice and loose. As you can see he wore most of it on his forehead - which he thinks is called his elbow and in his hair. Robert the tiler got to smell the delicious cakes cooking and Sebastian the altruistic insisted on sending him home that day with one. Please note its about 11.30 when these pictures were taken and Sebastian is still in his Jamies!