Growing goodness

Well my garden of herbs and few veg and fruit are growing great now

Here are some of my chilies

 Tomatoes

 My thyme basil and parsley are growing like crazy

 Raspberries are all over the bush now

Shallots are doing well

 My capsicums have just started to grow Finlay not sure if they are late Bloomer's or not in season hmm.

Donation

So the girls and I decided at work tonight that any tips that go in to our tip jar we will donate to the flood victims.

Good work girls where already @ $20 on our first night

love this little town we live in everyone is so giving...

Marinated feta

One of my favorite cheese is FETA.

My cousin told me about this yummy feta a while ago that was marinated with sun dried tomato's in oil. 
So i had to try it.

I headed down to the shop where it was stocked and bought myself a jar.
ooh my

I fell in love it tasted so good only problem was a jar would last me two days and it cost $15 a jar well worth it but a bit costly.

If we were to buy feta in bulk we could marinate it our self.

So that is what we did the SIL and I.
When i went to Sydney i bought 2kg back with me
that was the first attempt.
And it was that good we had to do it again.

At 7.99 a kilo i walked out of the shop with 4 kilos 2 for me and 2 for the SIL.
Now that's a saving.
Where just feta crazy lol.

 I marinaded 8 jars.

First i soaked my feta over night in a solution of half milk and half water just to draw some of the salt out i then drained it and dried the feta with paper towel

THEN the fun began

1st one is chili, 2nd i made a pesto up and added it in, the next 2 are basil, the 5th one is olive and garlic, 6th is thyme and garlic and the last one is sun dried tomatoes.

I used vegetable oil in these as the last time i used olive oil it congealed in the fridge.

So time to marinate for a week and a bit and the should be done but the longer there left there the better they taste.

YUMMO cant wait.

:)

Flood Appeals

CHECK THIS OUT KYLIE IS RAISING MONEY FOR THE FLOOD VICTIMS BY HAVING AN ACTION ON HER BLOG
The action is a skein of Sea Sock by Dragonfly Fibers in the Canyon Flower colourway.

70% superwash merino and 30% sea cell put up at 378yds/4oz

What a great idea. 

A friend of mine has just found out that a former Cobar resident and family has be evacuated from there home in Queensland she has also started to raise some money too help them out.  
Its great too see a lot of other fundraisers out there to lend a helping hand.

 Very sad what is happening out there
So dig deep people I've made my donation have you made yours.

Pop's Birthday

Now i got a bit inspired with this cake from here you see i was too sick to go to my nephews birthday and i missed out on THIS oh my it looked so yum.

So i had an idea the boys would help make on for pops birthday. lol

And that they did.

We made a 4 layer cake out of 2 packet cake mixes and separated it in to 4 equal parts and the four colours to each one then baked them.

So we let these cool over night.

Then we added jam and cream to each layer.

Iced it with a butter icing with a dash of blue colouring.

And there you have it lol

Well the kids loved it lol

Too The Market

Around 2 years ago we bought our first lot of Cows in calf we lost a few to bloat but after all we had 8 little healthy calves out of them we got 3 steers

 Those 3 steers went to market last Friday
YAY it only took  2 year lol too make some money off them we did very well
Got $2.15 a kilo so in all about $2.500 witch will go back into the cattle but now that we have more sets of calves more will be going to the market real soon.

Christmas 2010

So where back from our holiday away and now can blog about the past few weeks.

So first off is Christmas day.

It started off a little like this

and this

    

I think we might of had a visitor YAY

Santa has been  

now was time to start unwrapping all the presents

 The boys also found these outside from Santa

Bailey now has his own motorbike for out bush

And this is for the three of them but Jordan is going to do all the driving.

So there is present time out of the way now for lunch.

This year i was ment to tone it down a little and not cook so much but of course that didn't work we end up with that much yummy food.

so here's a peak on some of the food we ate on Christmas day.

 

Oyster's Mornay and Kilpatrick

 

Honey glazed ham and roast lamb

 Prawns roast potato pumpkin and honey glazed carrots

And we lunched on with some of these people,

What a fantastic day it was.