Garden madness

While I was up visiting Dad I bought a feijoa tree and another hebe and I planted those out yesterday. I was a bit perturbed to see that the label on the feijoa plant actually recommends more than one be planted in a garden to ensure cross-pollination.  Oh well we will see if we get [...]

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Birthday dinner

Tonight’s birthday dinner for S was a modification of the lamb and beetroot pizza recipie from Notebook magazine (thanks Kathy!) Constructed as follows: Sliced a turkish bread in half Cut side up – spread on sundried tomato and garlic humus Added lamb (two lamb steaks sliced up finely, fried and then sprinkled with “Useful stuff” [...]

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A for effort but that’s about all

The weekend has zipped by in a flash … I have spent ages on my essay and got it up to 1880 words – normally too many words are the problem, but I still need at least another 600. I feel I am crafting it together ok, but obviously I need to do more work [...]

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The week that was …

Well it’s back to work for me tomorrow after a week off at home. I just really wanted a week off to recharge my batteries and get a few things out of the way before study starts again – the semester starts on 23rd Feb, so two weeks of freedom left! It’s funny how the [...]

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In praise of the crock pot part 1

We hosted Owen + Glennis for dinner on Wednesday night, to celebrate Owen’s birthday. I went for my failsafe dinner option, the Moroccan lamb dish. I first sampled at our work Christmas lunch (courtesy of Di). The recipie is here . I cooked it in the crockpot so I left out the lamb stock, tomato juice and [...]

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