The lovely montjoye put on a birthday lunch for me on Good Friday at her house. There was the two of us, drwacky, mishymoocow, her hubby, quatrefoil, sjkasabi and HLG, bar_barra and tyggerjai. So a select group.

There was lots of great food contributed by various guests, with montjoye providing most of it. I was given some rather lovely presents, and enjoyed the company and conversation much. I was perhaps a little ( Read more... )

Nuke in microwave large cup of milk (regular, soy, oat, almond or whatever milk) for one minute.
Add three teaspoons of Milo(tm). Stir vigorously.
Nuke in microwave for another minute.
Add shot of Frangelico. Stir vigorously.

Consume at leisure.

A few weeks ago I tripped and fell, twisting my knee. It was a very contemporary trip, I was consulting Google(tm) maps on my iPhone(tm) at the time ( Read more... )

Top and tail beans, bend and break asparagus, tail broccoli, break off cauliflower.

Microwave beans for 90 seconds.
Add cauliflower, microwave for 60 seconds.
Add broccoli and asparagus, microwave for 60 seconds.

Heat oiled fry pan. (I recommend macadamia oil though butter would work well.)

Drain vegies, add to fry pan, sauté briefly, serve.

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Happy new year!

Tip for pancakes:
Sprinkle castor sugar on the pancake.
Add butterscotch schnapps.
Add a couple of drops of lemon.

Enjoy the result.

Take satchel of SunRice® brown-rice-in-90-seconds and put it in the microwave for 90 seconds ( Read more... )

Packet of quick-cook ravioli.
Bought pesto
Parmesan cheese.

Cook the 5 (or whatever) minute pasta in boiling water.
Drain.
Put in bowls. Put one in fridge.
In the other, mix in pesto.
Add parmesan cheese.

Eat.

Well, the colour-coded frog-in-a-pond was a success. I even got one myself. (Just the one I wanted: green jelly in a green cup which meant it was dark peppermint chocolate frog in vodka-laced jelly.)

Thanks all for your suggestions. I followed thepurpleempire's suggestion, and set most of them in the freezer. Probably not necessary, but it gave me extra ( Read more... )

I have colour-coordinated the Frog in-a-pondBlue "water" means alcohol free ( Read more... )