A few months ago my sister messaged me in a bit of tizzy. She’d been assigned dessert to a party (again) and she wanted to do something different. She really wanted to make a tart, but like me pastry was not her friend. Perhaps its a family thing? Anyway, I was in love with Maggie…
Month: May 2014
Sweet Potato, Cauliflower and Coconut Soup
Mr Firehouse and I are pretty good at meal planning. We have to be to avoid shopping every couple of days with a toddler who loves to run up and down the aisles. Especially one who is currently obsessed with doors. Guess where he runs to first?Go on, guess. Anyway, there are times…
Easy Peasy Pancakes
When I happen upon other peoples blogs, I let me nosey side take over and always spend an inordinate amount of time perusing the “about” section. I remember once reading a bio that listed the bloggers special skills as “can whip up a batch of chocolate chip cookies in the 6 minutes it takes…
Mixed Berry Muffins
My first year of teaching, I taught a year 1 & 2 combined class. Come Mother’s Day, we decided to keep it simple. We asked the kids to draw pictures of themselves and their mothers and we cut and pasted cardboard frames. We were a government school and so had limited access to cardboard, a…
Chocolate Eclairs
Eclairs are my mum’s favourite dessert. Not exactly these ones. Her weakness are the sickly sweet ones from Perera & Sons Bakers in Sri Lanka, filled not with custard cream but the oh-so-sickly sweet chocolate buttercream! Anyway, this recipe is dedicated to my mum and all the other awesome mums out there. I hope Mother’s…
Jamie’s Mexican Beef Chilli
Mr Firehouse’s choice of food is usually meat, spice and more meat. So chilli or more correctly chilli con carne, really fits the bill. When a couple of dear friends from Australia visited us last year, he decided he wanted to make them the quintessentially American “chilli”. He found a recipe in a blokey cookbook…
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