White Chocolate Cookies......

Hello and Happy Friday!! Friday's now have that special 'Friday' feel to them again don't they?...now that school is back and reality has kicked back in.
So today we are back in the kitchen for a little weekend baking. On a Friday. Always good to be early I believe.

                                                                                 

Today's recipe is for White Chocolate Cookies. Which basically means one day I went to bake good old regular choc-chip cookies, realised we had no dark choc chips so I bashed out a white chocolate milky bar, threw that in instead and hey....we had delicious white choc biscuits to dunk in our tea. Coffee. Milo. Milk.....

                                                                                 

A few people have asked for the recipe so.....here we go.....

                                                                                 

                                                                                   

                                                 White Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

115 grams butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspn vanilla
1 3/4 cups self-raising flour, sifted
1/4 cup milk
white chocolate - either the buttons or chips you can grab in the baking section of your sup or just cut up a white chocolate bar. For these I used 1/2 a 180gm block.

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees

2. Beat together the soft butter and sugar. Once that is pale throw in your egg and vanilla and beat some more.

3. Now sift in the flour and stir through. Add your milk and lastly toss in whatever chocolate you haven't already eaten off the chopping board.

4. Scoop spoonfuls (I use a teaspoon) onto a greased or lined baking tray then throw in the oven for approx 12 minutes.

5. Allow to cool a little on their trays before shifting them to their cooling rack.

6. Try one whilst it's still warm and tell me they are not delicious!??!!

                                                                                     
                                                                                     

I have to admit I'm not really the biggest fan of white chocolate but these really do work!! Plus they have a kind of half-cake-half-biscuit texture which is always a good thing surely!!

                                                                                 

I'm now off to clean up the house before it's time to pick up the kids and they come home to mess it up again. Apparently that's how we roll......

                                                                                   

Happy Weekend and Happy Baking!!!



                                                     Janelle xx                                                                                  

All Is Quiet......

Goodness...it's all rather quiet around here today...

                                                                                 

Three shouty children back at school which just leaves me, the kitten and a few chooks at home.....

                                                                                 

I feel slightly stunned...with a few hundred jobs to do about the house which I've been putting off until school resumed back I am now confused as to where to start!!?!

                                                                                 

Probs best to boil the kettle and have a little think......

Enjoy your day!!


                                                                                         Janelle  xx                                                                                

Sausage and Potatoe Salad

Hello there!!

                                                                                     

I'm a little slow off the mark this week, today being Wednesday and this being my first post of the week...must have something to do with it being the last few days of the school holidays and trying to get 3 children half-way organised and geared up for the year ahead. I think we may be ready...

We are also back to dealing with a fair bit of heat, as in h.o.t weather. I don't know about you but I find it hard to even contemplate dinner at the best of times when it is still so hot and stuffy when it's time for dinner? So with that little thought in mind I thought I'd share a "what we had for dinner" as this one was a winner...certainly nothing flash or fancy but it was quick, simple and, most importantly, eaten!!

                                                                                                                               

                                                                               

I'm not even sure what to call this, it's pretty much made up as I go, but it's basically a potatoe salad with sausage thrown in so let's go with Sausage Potatoe Salad??!? Yep...sounds good to me.....

I give you.....

                                                                                               

                                                                               

                                                                                   

                                                     Sausage Potatoe Salad    

Ingredients

Potatoes

1 packet beef sausages - or whatever takes your fancy

bacon - 1 or 2 rashers?

chives 

peas - frozen 

corn kernels - frozen

Dressing

Method

Right, boil up your potatoes...I use baby potatoes, I never count them, maybe 9 or 10?? Whilst they are bubbling away dice up your bacon into small pieces and fry off. My husb actually tossed ours in the microwave the other night and they came out fine. Now you also need to get your sausages frying, I cook ours first and then chop them into bite-size pieces once they're done. In amongst all this chopping and frying, or if that's too much hassle wait until the end, heat up the peas and corn. I usually throw mine together in a mug and heat in the microwave for a couple of minutes...maybe 1/3 of the mug for each.
Once your spuds are cooked drain them, cool a tad, and throw into a large-ish bowl. Add the peas and corn, bacon and your cooked/chopped sausages. Snip your chives over the top, add a sprinkle of salt and pepper then toss through your dressing. I usually use a store bought dressing but would love to try with home made. You can use potatoe salad dressing, regular mayo and I've even used coleslaw dressing which worked fine.

                                                                                     

                                                                       

And there you have it...a slap dash recipe for a slap dash meal...but one that works well for us! Let me know if you give it a go!


                                                                             

Have a Happy Wednesday...

And stay cool....


                                                    Janelle  xx

                                                                                    

Chocolate Cake....again.....

Good Afternoon all!! Come on in....you are just in time for arvo tea....

                                                                                   

Which today is....ta da....chocolate cake.....

                                                                                   

Always a winner around these parts.....

                                                                                 

My son and I cooked this up yesterday and I must say...it is rather delicious!! I'm still tweaking a few things in the recipe (although I think I may tweak every recipe every time I bake really?!) before I share but!!...do not go into a cake-less frenzy....in the meantime just click yourself over to here and you will find one of my very all time favourite chocolate cake recipes....easy-as to whip up too......

                                                                               

Ok...there is cake to be eaten and three apparently "staaaaaarrrrrrvvving" children so if I want any chance at all of enjoying at least a few morsels of this I need to scoot n.o.w.....

                                                                                     

                                                                                 

Happy Baking and Happy Weekend guys......

Enjoy......



                                                         Janelle  xx                                                                                    

A Sheepish Project??....

Hey there...I have a quick little project to share this evening. Possibly one of the easiest yet effective things I've done for awhile...with a little help from the handyman husb...must admit that one I suppose....

                                                                               

So this all began back in November when one of my favourite friends (yep, apparently I have favourites) gave me this very cute tea towel for a birthday gift. Which my youngest totally-obsessed-and-I-do-mean-totally-obsessed-with-sheep daughter saw and promptly stole from me. Can't say I blame her really...it is pretty damn cute...

                                                                                 

Well this tea towel was played and played with, usually to wrap her baby sheep up in, and I was forever picking it up from all about the house. And then along came a little pic on instagram from a gorgeous mum who had hung up a few tea towels in her sons' rooms and "hello!!"...perfect solution and more than perfect wall hanging for this little sheep-girl.....

                                                                               

Simply fold over and sew the bottom and top edges...ask your husband in a nice polite voice possibly the trickiest bit to this whole project to cut you two pieces of dowel for you, slide them through the towel ends, grab whatever twine you can find in your junk drawer, tie to the pieces of dowel (am I spelling this correctly?? Don't believe I've ever had to write the word before....) and hang up on your obsessed child's wall.

                                                                                 

And Woo Hoo!! This does have to be moved up higher on the wall, we just used the hook that was there for now to at least get the thing up but I must say...I am loving it!!

Look out for the paper chain tutorial next week....:).....

Happy projecting folks!!



                                                     Janelle  xx                                                                          

Hello.......

And it's Hello to another new week.....

                                                                                   

Here's hoping it's an extra good one....

                                                                                 

Stay happy people.....

                                                                                   

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                                                 Janelle  xx                                                                          

Quick One.......

Morning!!!

                                                                                   

Keeping it cool here today on this h.o.t. Friday.....

                                                                                 

Have a fab day all......

                                                                                 

And enjoy......


                                         Janelle  xx