tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90687675806885393252024-03-14T13:51:18.945+11:00A gluttonous wife living a simple lifeJan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-34846840033257950242016-02-05T11:35:00.000+11:002016-02-11T07:47:58.087+11:00In my kitchen ~ February 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's that time of the month again where we hook up with the lovely Maureen from <a href="http://www.orgasmicchef.com/in-my-kitchen/in-my-kitchen-february-2016/">the orgasmic chef for the In my kitchen series</a> for all kitchen foodie mad devotees from all over the world (and of course newbies are more than welcome) to show off what's been happening in the hub of so many of our homes - the woman cave called the kitchen! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm excited this month as we have added some things that I've been waiting years for....settle in with a cuppa or a vino and take a peak :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first new thing in my kitchen is this electric kettle that is making my morning coffees a dream....my last kettle was a "whisper quiet" and let me tell you there was nothing bloody quiet about it!!! So this is a pleasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, let me introduce to you, in my kitchen is my new love, my life changing appliance....a dishwasher....I always knew we'd fall in love and I'm totally smitten with my clear and clean double sink ;) and my nail polish is lasting so much longer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The last addition of kitchen gadgetry is my new food processor - I have always had a small one which is no good for making pastry or anything big like a cake batter so this beauty has been getting a work out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen has been so much basil I've been whizzing up this fabulous basil with extra virgin olive oil that is just perfect on roasted meats, added to a frittata or dolloped onto toast with squashed tomatoes for breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I lied, here is one more little gadget a julienne peeler I picked up for a song in New Zealand but man it is sharp! But, great and speedy way to change up some summer salads. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen has been loads of beetroots for pickling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now this is a very special addition to my kitchen this month and it's my great, great grandmothers flour canister. I've been eye balling this for years at mama's and she had it all set out for me a few weeks back and I had to hold back the tears....I'm such a sentimental....but it holds 3kgs of flour and is a dream to get a cup scoop easily into.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen finally on stream are tomatoes - it's another late season this year but just in time as I cracked my last jar of passatta from last year - you just can't beat home grown can you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and lastly in my kitchen are so many peaches I'm going to look like one soon! I made a yummy peach & coconut chia pudding for breakfasts this week, but you just can't beat eating one over the sink and juice spilling down your arms and face...now that's summer :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for stopping by....ciao, Jan x</span></div>
Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-13414306148382455542016-02-03T14:12:00.001+11:002016-02-03T14:12:14.911+11:00a photo a day for the month of January - week 4<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's the final week of the <a href="http://fatmumslim.com.au/photo-a-day-challenge-january-2016/">photo a day challenge for the month of January</a> and I have really enjoyed doing it. I've started the next photo a day challenge but might leave that on instagram as it's eating into my hooking time doubling up the photos :) You can catch me on @janelladean or for my crochet on @agluttonouswifehooks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Day28 "smile"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Day 29 "home"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ciao, Jan x</span>Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-78629390366033505202016-01-21T06:47:00.001+11:002016-01-21T06:47:12.035+11:00A photo a day for the month of January ~ week 3<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's week 3 of the the <a href="http://fatmumslim.com.au/photo-a-day-challenge-january-2016/">photo a day for the month of January challenge</a> that I find is a great easy way to be mindful as you are always looking at everyday moments and thinking of the days word for the photo you need to find. Here's my instalment this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again like 2015, 2016 is flying along, well for me it seems. It's week 2 of the the <a href="http://fatmumslim.com.au/photo-a-day-challenge-january-2016/">photo a day for the month of January challenge</a> that I'm loving. I was really lucky to have a 5 day trip to New Zealand to meet up with some dear friends for laughs, food and relaxation and it was fabulous. I think it will take me awhile to recover from it but was worth it :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day 8 "Landscape"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day 9 "Shoes"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day 10 "Lucky" this was a bucket list item of travelling overseas flying solo and I did it without raising stress levels and Air New Zealand were a pleasure to deal with. (Not a sponsored comment!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day 11 "Outdoors" this was at the breathtaking <a href="http://brickbay.co.nz/">Brick Bay winery</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day 12 "Something I wore" my wedding and engagement rings that I love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day 13 "Three of a kind" mojitos baby!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so until next week....ciao Jan x</span>Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-42793063430148185012016-01-07T07:49:00.001+11:002016-01-08T07:58:03.527+11:00A photo a day for the month of January ~ week 1 <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was super excited to see that the photo a day challenge #fmsphotoaday is back to monthly instead of weekly, for some reason I couldn't get into the weekly one but I'm back in the saddle for this month. I'll post on here each week but if you want you can follow me on instagram @janelladean which is different from my @agluttonouswifehooks account as it has no crochet - gasp!!! :) You can find all about the challenge <a href="http://fatmumslim.com.au/photo-a-day-challenge-january-2016/">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day 3 "water"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day 7 "reading"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If any of you are joining in the challenge, let me know and I'll come follow you :) until next week....ciao, Jan x</span></div>
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Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-83472011430404754342016-01-02T10:05:00.000+11:002016-01-02T10:59:20.161+11:00In my kitchen ~ January 2016 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whooooo here we are all finished the Christmas and New Year hoopla for another year and it's time to look at what's been happening in my kitchen which is a series now being hosted by the lovely Maureen from <a href="http://www.orgasmicchef.com/in-my-kitchen/in-my-kitchen-january-2016/">orgasmic chef </a> who has taken over the reigns from Celia who is taking a break. Grab yourself a cuppa or a vino and settle in for a peek into what's been happening <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/search/label/In%20my%20kitchen%20series">in my kitchen</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a wonderful Christmas day but it was around 33c (91f) which I could be called crazy for doing a traditionally hot cooked lunch but it was worth it and the air conditioned kitchen helped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The feast started with these puff oysters and prawns. These oysters are one of my favourite ways to eat them. You place a teaspoon or so of garlic butter onto the oyster and then cover them with puff pastry and bake in a hot oven, 200c, for 15 minutes or until golden - the photo has them uncooked. Ah-mazing!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry there isn't any more photo's from the big day but it's hard to host, cook, clear, drink, laugh, eat and be expected to take photos!! I am only one woman ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was given these darling salt and pepper shakers all the way from Dublin from a dear friend who travelled recently - aren't they just the cutest!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It wouldn't be my kitchen at Christmas if there weren't these shortbread. I traditionally keep them plain but I had a little helper who glittered some up for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also make baby fruit mince tarts that are gifted to special friends as they are a labour of love....psst see these pretty plates above and below, they are from a local artist friend of mine Louise at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.tipsyglass.com.au/">Tipsy glass</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made up a big batch of sausage rolls for the freezer for those nights when you don't know what day it is nor do you have the energy to think about cooking dinner. I pack mine with lots of blitzed up vegetables so I feel less guilty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This month I had a go at Fiona's <a href="http://www.tiffinbitesized.com.au/2015/08/21/waste-not-want-not-apple-scrap-jelly-recipe/">apple scrap jelly</a> which was both a success and a disaster. I first made it, boiled it for ages, sterilised all the jars, bottled and after it cooled I realised it wasn't set!!! Back into the pot to boil it again, wash everything only to take my eyes off it and it boiled over onto the stove so when it was all said and done I had 4 jars!!!! But I will be making it again :) I loved it with cheese and biscuits but my daughter loves it on hot toast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got this tart case for $1 from one of the op shops here - what a bargain!! I'm yet to christen it but plans are in place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and lastly it wouldn't be in my kitchen if I didn't share some of my crochet - this is one of 4 projects I have on the go at the moment. I'm loving playing with different stitches. This blanket will be for my bed and I'm just coming close to half way - this is around 30 hours so far!!! Another labour of love :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for coming over! Until next month, ciao Jan x</span></div>
Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-43633242881830569142015-12-02T10:17:00.000+11:002015-12-02T13:41:51.709+11:00In my kitchen ~ December 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here we are at the end of another year and the final installment of my <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/search/label/In%20my%20kitchen%20series">IMK series</a> hosted by the lovely Celia from <a href="http://figjamandlimecordial.com/2015/12/01/in-my-kitchen-december-2015/">Fig Jam and Lime Cordial</a>. If you'd like to take a peek into other peoples kitchens from all around the world pop over and take a look....</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">grab yourself a cuppa or a wine and settle in to see what's been happening in my kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, December...one of my favourite months. I know there are many who don't like Christmas or the craziness that seems to come at this time of year but I love it. I don't have to worry about overloaded social engagements (just a nice steady stream....)nor do I have to spend too much on gifts and I think this has a lot to do with it. I'm lucky to have never really had any Christmas family dramas of drunken fights or other bad behaviour - smooth sailing I'm very blessed to say. Two years ago I took over the reigns of cooking Christmas lunch and I love hosting this as my gift to my family...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen is lots of fresh garden produce...these carrots I love roasted with cumin, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">our purple garlic didn't fair that great a crop this year but I'm making lots of garlic butter for the freezer so I can use it for months to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this years basil has been so leafy I'm in heaven! I just wish the tomatoes would hurry along so I can enjoy them altogether :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lots of cavolo nero and mint - I love the cavolo nero lightly blanched, drained well and then tossed with evoo, garlic and lemon juice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen I've been making <a href="http://www.lovefood.com/guide/recipes/15200/cheats-ricotta-spinach-and-mint-gnocchi-recipe">ricotta gnocchi </a>with fresh sage & lemon burnt butter as a potato substitute that is sublime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that heady smell of frying sage, butter and evoo gets me everytime</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen I've been crushing on this unfiltered evoo that I got from a trip to <a href="http://www.lamannafresh.com.au/">La Manna</a> in Melbourne - perfect to dress a salad or add a slug to finish off dishes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen is duck fat for my roasted potatoes on Christmas day. I buy a whole duck and render the fat which I find is more cost effective than paying for just the duck fat and the added bonus of roasted duck for dinner! Aldi stock <a href="http://www.luvaduck.com.au/">Luv a duck</a> at this time of year at only around $14 a bird which is great when you can pay up to $10 just for the fat at some grocers!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen has been the sweetest locally grown cherries that we have been eating by the kilo - yum!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen is this Turducken that I'll be roasting Christmas morning. I know, I know, it's cheating but it will make for a dreamy lunch service ;) I've never had one before and am really looking forward to trying it - fingerscrossed it's good!! I wonder if any of you had tried one?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen on Christmas day will be my treasured carving set brought from the Waterloo markets in Belgium a few years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It wouldn't be December in my kitchen without <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/my-shortbread-and-merry-christmas-from.html">my shortbread</a>, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my kitchen sits my latest crochet project that I'm loving creating. It will be a large blanket for the end of my bed. I originally started the pattern <a href="http://littlewoollie.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/mixed-stripey-blanket-beginningswanna.html">from here</a> but I've changed colours and some stitches along the way so now I'm just flying solo with my own ideas.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwUh9zwbhqPTzJJGJgkzTRI7uI8KQjj1wMrNFnweUcIaU0a7_3nAoBD20rekvaQWj3Kn_gKzgTqBD6Yww659ys1m_hzp88tGhDZEDP-DlgLvZmfzj2IE2NrNPckuFay6mnyZrHKNDOVWk/s1600/0c84f76431870060a30dc1feb03e372b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwUh9zwbhqPTzJJGJgkzTRI7uI8KQjj1wMrNFnweUcIaU0a7_3nAoBD20rekvaQWj3Kn_gKzgTqBD6Yww659ys1m_hzp88tGhDZEDP-DlgLvZmfzj2IE2NrNPckuFay6mnyZrHKNDOVWk/s640/0c84f76431870060a30dc1feb03e372b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-4348544711489904472015-11-03T22:25:00.000+11:002015-11-05T09:12:57.408+11:00In my kitchen ~ November 2015<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know we say it each month, and I missed last months <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/search/label/In%20my%20kitchen%20series">IMK series</a>, but they are zooming by and before we know it 2016 is going to be kicking at our heels!!! I've been busy doing orders for @agluttonouswifehooks (look me up on instagram) but I did just want to share a few things with you all even if it's not a proper "in my kitchen", it's things that have happened in my kitchen, I hope you'll forgive and humor me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few months ago I entered a comp <a href="http://www.notquitenigella.com/2015/05/03/meringue-recipes/">with the lovely Lorraine</a> which was totally on a whim....it was about memories of cooking and here was my entry of 25 words: "cooking mama's chutney evokes special memories - I'm keeping tradition going - eating it on toast & butter straight from the saucepan & fighting over the jars." Low and behold, awhile later I received an email I almost sent to my junk emails but it was a notice telling me I had won a spot in the <a href="http://www.madeformemories.com.au/">CSR "Made for Memories" cookbook</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Squeel!!!!" NO!!! Really, me? Our family....in a cookbook? I was so thrilled you have no idea. Or maybe you do! My small amount of words tried to sum up the sentiment, taste and treasure that was my <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/the-family-tomato-chutneyi-could-be.html">Mama's chutney</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama is my almost 90 year old grandmother (January 3rd 2016 will be the big milestone) who is more like a best friend to me. She had 11 children to a husband who didn't crack up to all she had hoped, to put it mildly. But, she raised them on her own in a 3 bedroom house on the smell of an oily rag and did a remarkable, selfless job. When I was growing up, a gazillion years ago (1980s, I'm not THAT old!!) , there was no daycare other than Mama. Lucky for us grandies. We were left to explore and be seen and not heard until meal times. Her ability to make a meal from nothing or have grated potato cakes doled out to too many grandchildren and adults to count as well as her famous potato & spaghetti soup, pancakes, or zucchini slice, or roast lamb shoulder to name a few and then having a batch of scones in the oven before we could wash the backyard dirt from our hands was a thing of legend. I have documented </span><a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/mamas-scones.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mama's famous scones here</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I moved away from my country town as soon as high school allowed and it wasn't until I returned many, many years later, got married, then fell pregnant that I was home with my own child that our relationship changed from grandmother to a real friendship which we developed and was nurtured. She was a wealth of knowledge for me especially in those blinkered months of a new born baby: "give her some 'carb soda (bicarbonate of soda) it won't hurt, I did it with mine", when my daughter wouldn't settle, "put her in the bath, it will settle her"...."they are too spoilt!"..."it's easier to raise other peoples children" and this ripper "what is bred in the bone, comes out in the flesh" were only a few of the pearls of wisdom she would recount and I would gobble up. During my maternity leave, bearly a day went by that Mama didn't come and visit me for a cuppa or a light lunch, it was my break from the Groundhog day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many years later when I was struck down with my <a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/vestibular-migraine/">own illness</a>, I then started to have Mama visit almost daily again. I had a few alterier motives. I had lots of time on my hands and I knew that she was a great baker and from who knows where this desire to bake filled me. I'd scour the internet, magazines and cookbooks to come up with fail proof methods. Mama was my ruthless critic. "No, it's not cooked enough"... "It could do with less fruit".. ."Hmm this could just be my favourite lunch" (my own home grown eggs in a cheesey omelette with brown field mushrooms fried with lots of butter, parsley and garlic) "Yes, that is perfect..." I think it needs more sugar..."Maybe next time use less spice". Although it sounds like tough love, I adored her for her honesty as she knew I was keen to learn. I devoured her old handscribed cookbooks and really loved evoking food memories for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As the months and a few years went on, it was only in the months preceeding this chance opportunity, that Mama had been served a few very terrible health blows, one that held both her mortility and independance in it's hands. Ever cherished by all of our family, it's with a deep breath that I say she is still with us - what a fighter she is, thank the Lord. When I went to see her with the cookbook in my hand she was absolutely amazed to see herself in print - smiling photo and all. ( She is reknowned to not smile and have her eyes closed in each family photo!!)</span></div>
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So it is with a full heart and thankfulness to both CSR and Lorraine for this wonderful opportunity, and hopefully the family helps with record sales :)</div>
<br />Thanks to Celia for the IMK series each month, <a href="http://figjamandlimecordial.com/2015/11/01/in-my-kitchen-november-2015/">pop over</a> and check out other peoples kitchens!<br /><br /><br /> Ciao, Jan x</span>Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-12442908630858675572015-10-20T12:32:00.003+11:002015-11-03T12:04:10.725+11:00a gluttonous wife....hooks<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As many of you long time readers will know, last year I taught myself to crochet. I've never had a hobby other than cooking so it feels so good to finally be in that group of people who feels like they are doing something they are passionate about and love. It started as a bit of fun to help fill in time as I have a lot of it on my hands but I never thought it would amount to much and I'd be onto the next thing as soon as I could master a granny square. I never thought of myself as one of those 'crafty' people but it's really been one of the biggest blessings and surprises to come along in my life and I will be forever thankful I decided to give it a try. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I started an instagram page @agluttonouswifehooks and have been busy with orders which is wonderful to help feed my addiction! On the down side, my cooking and blog has taken a back seat but I'm still here hiding with my hook and yarn. I've been drawn to doing beanies and baby goodies but I've also had a few blanket orders which I also love doing. Most of the beanie designs are my own apart from the basic beanie tutorial which can be found <a href="http://happyberrycrochet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/how-to-crochet-quick-and-simple-beanie_7078.html">here</a>, although I've been using this sizing chart that has been fabulous from <a href="http://anniespictureperfect.blogspot.co.il/2013/01/how-to-properly-size-crochet-hats-chart.html">here</a>. Here's a bit of what I've been making and a few links:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lately my muse has been baking cookbooks and I stumbled across <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Hairy-Bikers-Book-Baking/dp/0297863266">the hairy bikers big book of baking</a> which is packed full with recipes from around Europe. Imagine fruity, cheesy, nutty, bready delights and you will get the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One recipe that intrigued me was their Easy shortbread squares. It calls for you to make the shortbread dough, split it in half, freeze then grate to create the slice - I had to try it out. My additions to the recipe are in the brackets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a cheat's version of linzer torte - the classic Austrian lattice-topped tart. It's perfect if you're not very confident with pastry and you want a really easy treat as there is no rolling involved - just grating. Watch your fingers though! You'll need a 20cm loose based square cake tin. (I used just a normal 20cmx20cm square cake tin)</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using an electric hand-whisk, beat the butter with the sugar and vanilla extract until pale and fluffy. Beat in the egg yolks 1 at a time, then sift the flour and baking pwoder on top. Beat the dough with a wooden spoon until it is smooth and light, then divide it into 2 equal portions and form them into balls. Wrap the balls of dough in clingfilm and freeze for 2-3 hours or overnight.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Preheat the oven to 170c/fan150c/gas3 1/2. Grease a 20cm square cake tin with butter and lin the base with baking parchment. (I use cooking spray instead of greasing and line the whole tin). Put the jam in a small saucepan and warm it over a low heat until fairly runny, stirring occasionally.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remover a ball of dough from the freezer and coarsely grate it on to a board, making sure it doesn't become too compacted. Tip the grated dough from the board into the prepared tin and scatter it evenly with your fingertips. Whatever you do, don't press the dough into the tin - needs to remain in strands. (this is a work out let me tell you now!! hard graft)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using a dessert spoon, drizzle the jam over the grated shortbread (I let the jam cool somewhat before doing this), but do not spread it. Take the other ball of dough out of the freezer and grate it coarsely on to the board. Sprinkle it evenly over the jam, again resisting the temptation to press it down.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bake the shortbread for 40-50 minutes or until pale golden borown and set, then remove it from the oven and leave to cool in the tin. Loosen the sides of the shortbread with a round-bladed knife and carefully take it out of the tin. (I just left mine to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then lifted it out using the overhang of the parchment) Peel off the lining paper if necessary. Dust the shortbread with sifted icing sugar and cut in into squares to serve. (I actually didn't even see this when I made it so didn't do it!!)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was busy getting our dinner off to a flying start one night last week, when out of the corner of my eye I spied my daughter sitting on the couch with a spoon in her mouth and the tin of milo in her lap...she looked like she was in heaven. The last I'd heard of her she was making a milk milo but obviously she decided to ditch the milk! I instantly scolded her and got her to put it away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I turned my back, a thought came over me. Kids aren't allowed to have a binge, they aren't allowed to have a bad day, they aren't allowed to have the poops or sulk, or play hookey or be naughty or yell, or scream in frustration....they really have to be seen as perfect all the time. I wonder why this has happened? Such pressure for them to live under.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I turned back around and opened the cupboard and gave her the tin and a spoon and she had the biggest smile on her face. Truthfully, she probably only had a few big tablespoons worth but it was just wonderful to see her so content with such a simple guilty pleasure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ciao, Jan x</span>Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-6581634636751765062015-09-02T10:33:00.000+10:002015-09-03T13:53:54.849+10:00In my kitchen ~ September 2015<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Man oh man this year is ticking by, it's that time of the month that we play along with <a href="http://figjamandlimecordial.com/">Celia from Fig Jam and Lime Cordial</a> who hosts the wonderfully voyeuristic <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/search/label/In%20my%20kitchen%20series">In my kitchen series</a> with a multitude of other food <strike>pawn stars</strike> enthusiasts from around the world. Grab a wine or a cuppa, whatever takes your fancy, and take a look at what has been happening here in my kitchen...I'm so excited.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am absolutely super duper excited to share with you all, my almost completed, long awaited, new kitchen!!! Now, let me fill you in...just a little over 10 years ago we brought our modest 3 bedroom existing 1950's home. Over the years we have changed the colour of the house, added a new back sunroom, replaced the mud bottomed garage with a brick concrete man cave haven along with making all of the backyard an edible garden where once only a New Zealand Christmas tree, a gum and a mammoth wild daisy bush abided. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll have to just trust me on this as I stupidly don't have a before photo of the kitchen, but it was hideous but clean and functional. 5 years ago we</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> painted the kitchen that had lime green cupoboards, small tiles, a red feature wall and the others were cream. We made the cupboards a grey/white in 2 tones, changed the handles on the cupboard doors and hid from our visitors the retro wallpapered, chipping, horrid interiors. Yes, I've become one of those 'beige' people, but when you have lived with lots of weird and wonderful houses that were multicoloured, I want plain and classic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been blessed with a husband who can. So a few weekends ago, after weeks and weeks of toil in the mancave, Mr.GW along with a great mate ripped out the old and started the new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr.GW put so much time into this beautiful Tasmanian oak and Victorian ash bench top - it's just gorgeous. Notice the new double sink? That my kitchen junkie friends is a revelation!! Being able to have a sink of soapy water AND being able to empty something is ah-mazing!!! We were also extremely lucky to get all of the cabinetry for almost nothing, a slab of beer to be exact as long as it was taken out and taken away from the owner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is second hand but it is as clean as a whistle and you wouldn't even know. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We still have a way to go - tiles, a shelf under the cupboards on the left to house the microwave off the bench, doors, dishwasher under the kitchen aid and a paint. The large draws are fabulous too and have a soft close that closes them for you...seriously, we have become such a precious bunch!! First world problems hey.....I am one happy gluttonous wife and have been cooking my little heart out in there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, it's 2 weeks since I first started this post, and we now have tiles!! You can see the original old tiles above, and new ones below...they originally were a lovely mission brown but we painted them but they would chip and I just hated them so having new tiles is just heaven. It was Mr. GW's first attempt at tiling and he worked it like a boss. There is no end to that man's talents, I'm truly the luckiest gluttonous wife I know!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's 5 days til the start of Spring and I can't wait. Already the mornings are crisp but the days are filling with some sunshine. I thought I'd keep it short and sweet and let the photos do the talking. Here's a look at what is happening here in my garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a new navel orange tree which will grow espalier across this awful fence and narrow area </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">brassica's during winter above and today ready for spring below....need some weeding done! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another new addition to the garden, this lavender. On the recommendation from the lovely <a href="http://lostinutensils.com.au/">Jem</a> this beauty will hopefully encourage bees with it's tempting purple flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The girls were treated to some straw - it was a quagmire of mud but this definately did the trick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we grow kohlrahbi and swedes for their delicious leafy greens...I pick handfuls of all of our leafy plants - beetroots, rocket and spinach too, and gently simmer for a minute in water, drain well and toss through coconut oil, a smidge of chilli, a squeeze of lemon & S&P - who needs vitamin tablets!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mint, spinach and walnut pesto has been heavenly on our roast lamb and slow braises</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the heart warming sign that spring really is coming, my apricot tree</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before I go, I just wanted to share a wonderful book for any of you interested in reading a true story about a New York woman who falls in love with a farmer, and the memoir of their start up year. You should be able to get if from your local library - beautiful read - I found myself waking early dying to know what was happening. It's called "<a href="http://www.kristinkimball.com/the-dirty-life">The dirty life by Kristin Kimball</a>. It almost made me wish I was there with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a re-post of a post I did back in October 2013...It's international scone week and I'm hooking up with <a href="http://tandysinclair.com/international-scone-week-2015/">the lovely Tandy from Lavendar and Lime who is hosting the big event</a>. Time hasn't and won't be on my side this week hence the re-post, but it's well worth a read and this scone recipe is the bomb!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were meeting up at my nan's, well she's called Mama actually, to have a play with one of my cousins daughters after school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mama had the flour container out and her apron on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It meant only one thing....Scones!! You are in for a treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3 cups s.r flour, sifted</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Preheat oven to 250c. Grease a baking tray. Sift flour into a large bowl and add salt and sugar. Grate the butter in and rub together to form crumbs then gradually add the milk, using a long bladed knife and a cutting action through the dough OR if using cream, mix cream and milk together and gradually add to flour using the knife and cutting action. You are aiming for it to come together, not too moist, not too dry. Unfortunately this is something that comes with experience, feel and trial and error, but I've taken lots of photos to help me remember! So here we go....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look at those hands at work. Mama is almost 88 yrs old, an amazing woman who bore 11 children and too many grand, great and great, great grandchildren to mention, all who she has influenced along the way. Mama is the glue that holds our family together. She is affectionately know as Mama by all our friends, partners, husbands and inlaws. When I started taking the pictures she initially didn't want her hands taken but we then both agreed that they were an amazing set and had weathered extremely well, and so its with pride I show them to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mama is the scone wizard, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">these were whipped up in under 2 minutes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with little helpers expertly kept at bay but all the while with enough involvement to keep them satisfied. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is held in high esteem among our large family as the only one that makes the scones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I asked if I could do it but she said "Not today, I'm in a hurry"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was taking lots of photos and Mama kept saying, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"don't forget to tell them they need to use fresh flour", and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"don't forget to tell them that they are meant to be touching each other on the baking tray but I don't think you need to", and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"don't forget to tell them the oven must be hot", and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"don't forget to tell them to be gentle: don't use a rolling pin~my mum use to say go gently." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I'm telling you all! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were devoured with hot cups of sweet tea and lots of talking with the grandies eating til they couldn't move, smothering theirs with runny cream as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It truly was an afternoon that memories are built and relationships are strengthened. I remember doing this with her when I was little, how lucky our little ones are to get to do the same ritual. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So it is with a warm heart that I share this post with you. I'm so pleased I finally got this recipe documented!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ciao, Jan</span>Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-22395270367871561052015-08-09T09:17:00.001+10:002015-08-09T09:19:36.805+10:00photo a day challenge ~ week 32 2015<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm linking up again with the photo a day challenge that you can find the details for <a href="http://fatmumslim.com.au/photo-a-day-challenge-2015-week-32/">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't always have the ability to hunt for the photos of each days word as such, more like I'll read the words when they are released for the week ahead and they will swirl around in my mind the whole week and sometimes I might find day 7's photo on day 1....I love how it keeps me thinking about something cool to find within the humdrum that can be my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a note Mama wrote me years ago and I framed it. We had a joke about the little sayings she would breathe into our conversations over the years, so I was thrilled when she wrote them down for me...it goes like this:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Dear Janis, Always remember - what is bred in the bone comes out in the flesh! A silent tongue makes for a wise head. The easiest children to rear are "other peoples" and always, count your blessings! Love and god bless always from Mama xo"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tuesday 4: on the shelf</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another owl beanie for a friend's little lady...I think this one is my favourite so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not really a quirky sort of person so this word just troubles me...the closest I could think of were these old taps at a dear friends house....and I'm not really sure they are that quirky!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok, so maybe this is a gate but I figure it's the door to someones back yard! Found on my morning walk when the frost hung low.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My perfect kind of time....reading cook books over a glass of cider or wine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm already looking forward to finding next weeks words.....there are some tricky ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Long time dear readers will know I have been blessed with two wonderful Nan's. One is known as Mama (my mum's mum) and the other Nan (my dad's mum). Even luckier is the fact I still have them in my life. When I was growing up, they both had a big influence on my life, although I didn't realise it at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mama had 11 children, raised on her own (she is a saint), and had a big hand in helping raise the grandchildren that ensued. She was our babysitter as there was no daycare in those days, so her house was a riot of yelling, feeding and where you were usually pushed out of your seat to an older cousin. I was one amongst a million but we all felt loved and cared for even if it wasn't with a gentle touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nan's house was different. It was quiet and everything just so. When we had any meal, the table was set with a tablecloth and I just loved doing those jobs. There was always a chair for me. Nan and Pop had 2 sons and a smaller extended family. I was the only granddaughter gifted to Nan so you can imagine the word spoilt came up often. My pop spent most of his time in the back vegie patch and was rarely inside. I spent every Saturday and Wednesday night with Nan while my parents worked and it was a treat for her to pick me up from Mama's and I'd go around and kick the older boy cousins that had been a thorn in my side as I had my biggest ally with me....although they had long memories and I'd be in for it when I returned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday we baked and went to the local football. Nan was a wonderful baker and quite often it would be this nutloaf, other times it might be <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/day-one-of-challenge-down-some-tasty.html">rock cakes</a> or her melt in your mouth <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/my-shortbread-and-merry-christmas-from.html">shortbread</a>. I'd sit up on the bench and help measure and mix, and the biggest job of all - licking the spoon and bowl. The smells would make my tummy rumble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before we headed off to the football, Nan would take me up to the bathroom, dampen my fringe and give it a little trim, we'd both put red lipstick on and off we'd go with a hot thermos of sweet tea and our baking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was while I was baking this nutloaf that all of these memories came flooding back to me like a warm hug. The smell of the spices put me straight back to Nan's kitchen and a smile settled on my lips for hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">generous 1/2 cup of walnuts, roughly chopped</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">generous 1/2 cup of sultanas</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sift flour, salt and spice into a medium sized bowl. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using your fingertips, rub the butter into the flour mix until it resembles breadcrumbs.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Add sugar,, nuts, sultanas and stir through.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a seperate small bowl, whisk together the egg and milk.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Add egg mixture to flour mixture and stir to combine - gently and don't over mix.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leaving the bottom on the nutloaf tin, fill with the cake batter and bake - keeping the tin upright when you put the top on and into the oven.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bake for approx 50-60minutes - you will smell it when it is ready! Though you can take the lid off and check with a wooden skewer - if it comes out clean the loaf is done.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sorry there isn't any nice photos of the nutloaf slathered with butter but I made this during the day in anticipation of my Nan coming for dinner. I've been doing Wednesday night dinners for her and my dad ever since I had my little one which is a family tradition I love. I'm always worried when I am doing one of her recipes and just hope it comes in close. As I dished it up, she told me that she hadn't baked nutloaf in the 8 years since Pop passed away, it was his favourite. As she sipped her tea and ate a slice, she smiled and said it was as good as hers. What a compliment, I think I could have shed a tear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that my dear reader is why I love to cook and bake - it just warms my heart.</span></div>
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Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-6584434071052420772015-08-05T14:04:00.000+10:002015-09-27T12:50:41.309+10:00In my kitchen ~ August 2015<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This months <a href="http://figjamandlimecordial.com/2015/08/01/in-my-kitchen-august-2015/">IMK series</a> has come around so quickly I'm sure I can hear Spring calling!!! Hurry up!!! My goodness, I'm sorry to go on about it, but I really don't think I've felt the cold as much as this Winter. I even brought myself some thermal tops to help layer the cold away. But, as always, my oven is my saviour and it's been put through it's paces again, with my beloved bread running front and centre....but there are a few other things just so you don't think I'm the size of a sour dough.<br />Grab a cuppa or a wine and relax while you take a peek....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my kitchen <a href="http://allrecipes.com.au/recipe/8897/amazing-soft-and-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies.aspx">these</a> amazing soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies didn't disappoint and are stashed up the back of the freezer for those times when only a cookie will do with a cup of tea...they defrost perfectly in minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my kitchen is my nan's nutloaf tin that I've had a few goes at. It's over 60 years old and I must say I was in a heaven of memory nostalgia eating the loaf...recipe to come :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my kitchen has been lots of <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/soup-nazi.html">pea and ham soup</a> (this recipe is one of my first and is fun to see how much my photos have improved). I add a big handful of steamed greens from the garden to help boost the vegetable intake and a smidge of chilli.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It wouldn't be in my kitchen if I didn't include some crochet...I made the pink and blue owl beanie for my little lady for our cold walk to school and the other for a friends little one. Beanies are proving to be one of those things that are trickier to size than you think!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my kitchen almost everyday in July and August is this bounty freshly picked from the garden that I never tire from picking nor eating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my kitchen has been lots of sourdough baking. My 100% hydration starter is getting better week by week, gluttonous feed by gluttonous feed. Bread baking is now well and truly entrenched into my soul - it's the funniest thing how passions are quietly unearthed isn't it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I travelled to a friends kitchen a few hundred kilometres away and took my sourdough dough and camp oven with me so I could make her 2 loaves as I've been teasing her with too many photos...let me tell you I might start putting my dough that is proofing in the back seat of the car - it traveled beautifully and didn't disappoint on the morning I doled these magnificent specimens out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my kitchen I made Celia's <a href="http://figjamandlimecordial.com/2015/04/19/burger-buns/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">burger buns</a> that were a big hit. We had them with thick oven roasted Italian sausages, caramelised onions, lettuce and tomato.....get your laughing gear on it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for stopping by....it's a little different format on Celia's blog (link at start of this post) and you can find all other contributors in the comments of her IMK post. I love reading and getting all of your comments and if you drop me a line, I'll be sure to come and see what you have been up to in your wonderful kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you ever get overwhelmed with all that is around us on social media and the internet? Breathtakingly beautiful photography, recipes, ideas, opinions, likes, followers, friends, (I could go on....) I know I do. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong, I'm the first to admit to being on and using social media but it often leaves me, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">especially when it comes to posting on my blog</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, with the dickhead feeling. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My dear friends will totally understand this phrase as we all use </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it at different times, so excuse the crassness but it's just the word that sums it up for us. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once you get the dickhead feeling, it's hard to come back. For example, one dear friend, once broke up with a boyfriend because he gave her the dickhead feeling. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I often think when I'm about to write a post "who cares, it's all been said and captured much better than you can do it" and so I don't write or post. Please don't give me sympathy, I'm not chasing that, I'm really just trying to get over the dickhead feeling and remember why I do my blog. It is for me when it all boils down to it and such a great positive outlet that it's worth me doing, I just have to be reminded, that's all :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, to help get my blogging groove back, I'm diving into the <a href="http://fatmumslim.com.au/photo-a-day-challenge-2015-week-31/">a photo a day challenge</a> #fmsphotoaday . I did do these <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/search/label/photo%20a%20day%20challenge">challenges last year</a>, although they were for a month. This year they are for a week. The thing I love most about this particular challenge is that it makes you be accidentally and easily mindful. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you are looking around in your daily life for 'that' photo, you can't not get down and dirty with the moment - pretty cool hey!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is my week (I'm early I know :) but I'm away over the weekend)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was one of those photos that you take but don't realise what you have taken until you get home and have a look. I was just snapping the bats asleep in the trees at our local gardens and was pretty chuffed to get one with the bat in flight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tuesday 28: looking in</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mmmm sour dough toast about to be smothered in lashings of butter and vegiemite - be still my beating heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wednesday 29: looking out</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thursday 30: trash(ed)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh this made me laugh and cry all at once....all week I had been wracking my brain to think what I could take a photo of for the word 'trash'. There was no way I was sharing my garbage bin!! And then, this happened....perfect really.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friday 31: I brought it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One step closer to my new kitchen - my new DOUBLE sink!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 1: fiction</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you pick the fiction and the non-fiction?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday 2: a little moment</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a wonderful cold but sunny winters day spent at the gardens...this was a last minute shot as my little lady was running to get into the roots of that giant fig tree. Precious memories captured, I love it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ciao, Jan x</span></div>
Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-41671260122753085962015-07-28T07:56:00.001+10:002015-07-28T09:28:53.551+10:00Miso roasted cauliflower<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was looking through all my photos yesterday, in anticipation of the up coming <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/search/label/In%20my%20kitchen%20series">In my kitchen series</a>, when it dawned on me that I'd better do some seperate posts otherwise my next installment would be too long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not one for following trends but I have fallen head over heels for this miso coated cauliflower. I know, the Japanese have been slapping it on everything for centuries but any wonder! It is salty and tangy and perfect with this cauliflower and another excuse to have the oven in during this bitterly cold winter I'm in the middle of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm using Shiro Miso paste and all you need is around a tablespoon of it, mixed with a dash or 2 of boiling water to loosen the miso up, a pinch of chilli flakes (optional), cracked pepper and if like me you like to hide chia seeds in everything, a sprinkle of them too. Cut up a 1/4 of a cauliflower into flowerettes and coat well by tossing in a bowl. Place on a baking tray with baking paper into an oven preheated to 180c for around 20 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had it with left over roasted vegetables from the night before (pumpkin and sweet potato), reheated and paired with rocket, feta, walnuts and a spritz of lemon....miso love it!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ciao, Jan x</span>Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-46247934526290933412015-07-05T10:32:00.002+10:002015-07-17T05:26:11.652+10:00In my kitchen July 2015<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's July...only 5 months til Christmas can you believe it!! We are in the full swing of winter here and my oh my it has been brisk. Perfect weather for the oven and I've been bitten hard by the sour dough bug this past month, so get ready for lots of bread! I'm hooking up with </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://figjamandlimecordial.com/">Celia from Fig Jam and Lime cordial</a> along with hundreds of other food obsessed bloggers from around the world. If you love to see what's in other peoples kitchens, pop over to Celia's blog and get stalking!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll have to apologise for the exposure of some of the picutres - firstly I had to resell my new camera as it just didn't do what I hoped (rookie error!!) so it's back to my phone and secondly it's so dim in my kitchen and it gets dark so early :( but anyway,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> grab a cuppa or a wine and settle in cause here we go.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll admit, I've been crocheting over blogging due to a few orders for my </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my kitchen has been lots of cos and mint - I had it this day with fried rice, a dry fried egg and wrapped it up in the cos - yummy healthy lunch. I've been trying to increase my leafy greens and fresh vegetable intake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my kitchen has been lots of soup for lunch too, especially this prawn chowder - I blanch a mix of freshly picked beetroot leaves, kolrabi leaves, kale and spinach to top this off as a vitamin power house. I sometimes also add a poached egg to my soups to give it that extra protein hit and they add a natural creaminess to them if you keep the yolk runny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my kitchen has been lots of sourdough and changes to my sour dough. This starter above is from a dear friends which must be around 15 years old now. I did experiment with this starter some time ago which you can read about <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/a-kneady-sour-dough.html">here</a> but to be honest, I didn't quite gel with the length of time needed to get to the final product and I killed her. This is a new one that I hope to keep going alot longer. There seemed to be so many steps and seeing as I'm an instinctive baker rather than a chronic step follower ( such a rebel :) ) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I searched for a way that would be more a kin to my <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/no-knead-bread.html">favourite no knead bread</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did lots and lots and lots of reading online but finally found what I was looking for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enter my new 100% hydration starter that contains the original starter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just naturally feel like it's more 'alive' and gets quite bubbly when left in the fridge. Basically it's 100gm starter, 100gm water(weigh on scales) , 100g flour. I feed her once a week, and/or the day before I want to bake a loaf or two. I can do it all the night/afternoon before and bake it the next morning - perfect!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://figjamandlimecordial.com/2014/12/12/an-overnight-sourdough-in-pictures/">Celia's overnight sour dough</a> - this is the recipe I now use - I do halve it sometimes to just make one loaf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://gggiraffe.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/celias-overnight-sourdough-bread-step.html">Johanna's take on Celia's overnight sour dough</a> - Johanna has lots of helpful tips and things she has discovered on her sour dough and bread learning curve. Thanks for all your work Johanna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://figjamandlimecordial.com/bread/">Celia's bread section on her blog</a> - this has been a great find. Celia is very passionate about her bread making and has taken the time to document lots of different types. Thank you Celia for taking the time to explain this mystery in wonderful terms and taking the fear out of it and for feeding my passion!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I fed my new starter a few times over the course of 5 days. I did want to make 2 loaves so I needed to double my starter. To do this you need to start a few days before baking. I took off 150g of starter (discard the rest) and added the same amounts of water and flour(150g). I left it out on the bench for 4-5 hours in a warm spot, then that night I took off 300g starter (discard the rest...you could use it to make another starter to give to a friend or bake with it) and added the same amounts of water and flour (300gm of each). I then popped her into the fridge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following day after lunch I then started Celia's recipe:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mix together and leave out for 30 minutes. Knead for a minute or 2 and then pop on the bench til the morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I used Wallaby bakers flour (I've also had great success with the Laucke crusty white bread pre-mix Mr. GW accidentally brought but it has the salt in it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above is the bread that resulted - not bad but not great. 5 days later I started again...but with much better results</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the dough after it has been out on the bench over night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Very gently tip the dough onto a floured surface and cut in half. Lightly dust with flour and lightly shape, if at all actually as you want to keep all that air in there. Your oven should be on as high as it can go and put camp oven or casserole dish to heat up for at least 15 minutes. Make sure you have a piece of greaseproof baking paper on the bottom of your vessel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking care to take the camp oven out of the oven, gently place your dough in and snip the top with sharp kitchen scissors or a razor and whack the lid on. After 30 minutes take the lid off and turn your oven down to 180c.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is what you should have 30 minutes later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These loaves where fantastic. I think the main difference between this lot and the first ones is that the starter has had more feeds and time to settle in. I was also gentler and didn't knead/shape this batch. I can't tell you how happy this makes me. I really have a big passion for bread baking now and never get tired of the loaves coming out of the oven. I never thought I'd get such pleasure from something I though would be so hard and I'd never be able to do. Just goes to show you where having a go and not worrying about the failures can lead you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So that's me for this month. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for taking the time to stop by, your comments are greatly loved and appreciated. I'm now off to see what's happening in everyone else's kitchen this month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ciao, Jan x</span></div>
Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-65342836368087032042015-06-13T10:36:00.002+10:002015-07-05T09:33:13.076+10:00Granny Stripe Blanket - Ta Dah!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been so excited to share this Ta</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-dah moment as if feels like it has taken me ages to finish. I started it in early April and finished it a week ago, so 2 months, but that wasn't hooking everyday. I made this blanket for some dear friends' birthday(they are a couple ;) I giggled for a minute thinking you might thing 2 friends had to share custody!!) , whose deadline I did miss but only just :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This pattern is from <a href="http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/granny-stripe.html">Attic 24 blog</a>. Lucy also has an online shop at <a href="http://www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/attic24">Wool Warehouse</a> which is where I ordered all the <a href="http://www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/accessories/stylecraft-special-dk-attic24-colour-pack">yarn for this pattern</a> in a bundle already made up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has the right number of balls to go with the pattern - how genius is that relationship!! I've ordered another bundle as I've had a few requests for the blanket and it will actually be enough for 3 blankets. The yarn, although 100% acrylic, is a dream to crochet with and is a really great price.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The balls do come with sleeves but I was too hasty before I remembered to take photos ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. GW, such a thinker that man...so this is his idea to stick a little piece of yarn on the corresponding sleeve....now why didn't I think of that? Too worried to think clearly I think!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been almost a year to the day that I first tried my hand at crochet and I've been hooked ever since. This is my 5th blanket I'm very proud to say. This craft that has become my addictive hobby has seriously saved my sanity. It gives me something tangeble to see at the end of most days when the couch is as far as I will be going. Here are some photos....lots of photos :)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNUa1Lx-kwqXOEHdv0qNBTswhAAY55A4e1JPFq0BvN1oxraSTCB5doVEmJ7pJ3dZABUdPTXFAJLwq9VmeaK3KMb9U6nEBj5XTSKRc9UQfXyS5VHqC3df8NcxjgzGafcIMZ3QJQP_gxAY/s1600/2015-05-21+07.37.22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNUa1Lx-kwqXOEHdv0qNBTswhAAY55A4e1JPFq0BvN1oxraSTCB5doVEmJ7pJ3dZABUdPTXFAJLwq9VmeaK3KMb9U6nEBj5XTSKRc9UQfXyS5VHqC3df8NcxjgzGafcIMZ3QJQP_gxAY/s640/2015-05-21+07.37.22.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did change the border ever so slightly (moi? mess with a recipe or pattern!!) I did the last pink row in hdc (half double crochet US terms) instead of a sc (single crochet). Boarders are my favourite part as I love seeing it all come together. It is rolling up ever so slightly though, any tips from anyone would be appreciated!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there she is....now onto the next one, my fingers are itching to get started.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's June....and that means winter here and my goodness it has been cold. It's mid afternoon as I type this and it's 6c (42f), the heating is on and if Coco the cat gets any closer I think she might get singed. It's also time for In my kitchen where I hook up with </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lots of lovely things have been happening in my kitchen this month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made these grissini sticks that have been eaten up with slices of salami and into my daughters lunchbox. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Granny Smith apple tree is almost at the end of its production so I whipped up some crumbles for the freezer - perfect fodder for this bitter winter that's hit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seeing as we have been doing lots of preserving, especially our <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/oven-roasted-tomato-passata-in-flash.html">tomato passata</a>, I ordered these nifty jar tongs off ebay and they are awesome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My baby Kromilla has been getting a workout - lots of baby meringues and meringue nests and a few breads....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">This delicious <a href="http://www.notquitenigella.com/2014/07/01/bacon-cheese-bread/" style="text-align: start;">bacon and cheese ring braid</a> was dished up with soup and not a crumb was left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A friend had me care for her beloved 15 year old sourdough starters while she was overseas-big responsibility!! But I love the job. I used the <a href="http://agluttonouswife.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/a-kneady-sour-dough-update-and-week-8.html">recipe</a> I played with awhile ago, before I killed my starter. I've got another on the go now and will try my hardest to nurture her for longer this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And lastly, we've been pickling our olives and I can hardly wait to crack them open.</span></div>
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<br />Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-7738369743269864582015-06-02T13:14:00.001+10:002015-06-02T20:26:07.869+10:00a gluttonous wife's city treat<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A week or so ago I made the 3 hour train trip to the big smoke - Melbourne. I love our quiet country city life but I do get excited by the thought of a few days in the city trying different restaurants or cafes - it fuels my soul. Add to that the chance of catching up with some of my girlfriends with no children = mummy nirvana :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> I took my current granny stripe </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">blanket with me which helped pass the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">time and keep me warm </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">on the old rattler. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">I must remember to avoid the train coffee machine at all costs, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">but at 5.20am it's hard not to be </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">tempted by it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I admire anyone who blogs and reviews restaurants as I find it a bit 'wanky' taking photos of every thing and it does take away the moment for me personally so I apologise for not snapping every thing. </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a great nights sleep, I made my way to find </span><a href="http://patriciacoffee.com.au/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Patricia's Coffee Brewers</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. When I'm planning a trip to the city, I google lots of 'bests' - like best coffee, best breakfast, best Italian and love doing the research. I walked up and down little William St searching for Patricia's only to have to stop to ask for directions. Just my luck, the blind man I came across knew a thing or two. If you look for the <a href="http://movida.com.au/movida-aqui/">MoVida aqua</a> sign and head down there it's down the alley and to the right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Patricia's is hipster smooth but without a beard in sight. It is <a href="http://www.beanhunter.com/australia/victoria/melbourne/melbourne-cbd">rated</a> one of the best coffees going. I beg to differ and was a tad disappointed with my brew but would go again to give it the benefit of the doubt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not to let an opportunity go by, a quick stop off to buy an almond croissant at <a href="http://www.laurent.com.au/">Laurent bakery</a> helped raise me from the doldrums. It was heavenly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A casual lunch at <a href="http://baget.com.au/">Ba'Get</a> was really, really good - with the traditional Vietnamese rolls of bahn mi hitting the spot. We shared one and had a chicken rice paper roll chaser - the hoisin dipping sauce added so much to this, I wish I was eating this right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Dinner that night was at <a href="http://movida.com.au/">MoVida</a> but I didn't take any photos as it just wasn't the right mood for it. I had some amazing bites that I'll share just in the printed word as they deserve to be included.</span></div>
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Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-49634236397577102472015-05-09T07:40:00.002+10:002015-09-06T15:54:50.775+10:00Apple flower tarts <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even better was a <a href="http://www.notquitenigella.com/2015/04/29/apple-flower-tart/">cook with me challenge hosted by the lovely Lorraine</a> for me to join in and make them. If you do feel the urge to join you in have a few days to get your skates on, all the details are on the post link above. They actually are quite easy, although you need to take your time when rolling them as they are slippery suckers. If I'm honest, next time I would use a red apple and maybe coat them in the jam as well perhaps. Either way, they are so pretty and perfect for impressing any wonderful Mum this mothers day - they are a present to myself!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I won't go into the hows and wherefores, just follow to see Lorraines recipe and fab video tutorial - you really can't go wrong. Here's my attempt:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's not been the best year for them but I'm hoping my ladies will clean up the coddling moth and next year's crop will be stella.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy, happy mothers day to all the mums out there - it's the hardest job in the world if you care about doing it well - so take a bow and an offering of one of my tightest squeezy hugs.</span></div>
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Jan (a gluttonous wife)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04980538485559579650noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068767580688539325.post-14019494915731090192015-05-03T21:40:00.002+10:002015-05-04T09:06:52.155+10:00Christening my baby<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was so excited to share my new arrival the other day but with all that was going on it was only today that I actually got to christen my new baby - KromillA - thanks <a href="http://makeitbakeitsnapit.blogspot.com.au/">Kirsty!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had the perfect recipe up my sleeve - <a href="http://simplecozyliving.com/lemon-zinger-loaf-cake/">Susan's lemon zinger loaf cake</a>. As luck would have it I have a dealer as a good friend - a dealer of lemons! Oh how lovely to have them back in my kitchen - nothing beats having a bowl full of them to play with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wowzers, I've been slumming it with my old dodgy pre-loved cheap mixer....This KitchenAid is a miracle worker. Not only does it look fantastic on my bench ;) but it really, really gets all of the ingredients mixed up in a flash. My old red baron needed extra help as it never mixed in all the ingredients at the bottom so it sort of put me off using it - but not now! I'm already making a list and hoping I can feed many a sweet or bready treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, how about them lemons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ciao, Jan x</span></div>
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