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it was a blustery day.

winter warmers - easy roast

As I write this I'm wearing a summer dress. It's probably not quite warm enough but it's cclose. It doesn't feel much like winter today but it did last week. Here's what I made for dinner with a little help from Jamie Oliver.

Faux Roast chicken + veg

Get a whole bunch of vegetables. I used potato, sweet potato, carrot + zuchini.
Cut them up any which-way.
I pre steamed the potato + sweet potato in the microwave.
Put them in a tray with a few cloves of garlic, rosemary, thyme, olive oil and saltnpepper.
Pop in the oven at 200'C.

Make a little bag out of foil. 2 sheets with three corners folded over.
Add a chicken breast, mushrooms, bit o' white wine and the rest of your herbs with a spoonful of butter.
Close up the other end of the foil bag and put in the oven in a tray for 30 mins.

After 30 mins rip open that bag and salivate over the tasty steam and juices pouring outta that baby.
Plate up your chicken n veg and pour over the tasty bag juice.

I like it because there are  no bones. I've never liked bones in my meat.

rain

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I haven't blogged in a whole week.

It's been raining and gloomy.
My mood has oft' fit the weather.
It's hard to do cloth nappies in the wet and cold.
It's easy to feel overwhelmed as the pile of laundry gets bigger and bigger.

It's hard to go out on adventures with my sweet baby girl.
It's easy to stay in bed till midday.
It's hard to find fun things to write about in the gloom.


I'm gonna go out puddle jumping with my little one.
I'm gonna make some rainy day craft.
I'm going to add some Joni Mitchell to the sound of the rain.
I'm gonna make some pumpkin soup and eat it with a crusty warm bread roll.

And then?
I'll have something fun to write about.

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laksa

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It's getting wintry here in ole Sydney town.
We have had lots of rainy days that Lucy and I spent indoors watching the rain splatter on the windows. It was actually flash flooding outside and poor Myl was drenched coming home from college but we were nice and warm!

So along with wintry weather comes wintry food.

Myl is a big fan of laksa. It's what he gets whenever we go to $6.50 thai.
Even though it's so cheap I thought I could make it cheaper at home. Here's how.

Ingredients (serves 2)
1 chicken breast
1 carrot
2 small bunches of choy sum
3 mushrooms
1/4 packet of rice noodles
1 tin coconut cream
2 cups water
1/2 tin of laksa paste

you could use other veg if you like or add bean sprouts.

Chop chicken into strips and fry in a large saucepan with cooking oil.
Chop carrot into rings. Chop mushroom into slices. Chop choy sum and leave green leaves to the side.
When chicken is brown add the carrot, mushroom and white parts of the choy sum.
When that is slightly soft add laksa paste and coconut cream. Stir till the laksa paste has mixed into everything.
Add 2 cups of water and bring to the boil.
Add the noodles and simmer for at least 5 mins or until rice noodles are cooked.
Divide into two bowls.
Rip up the choy sum leaves and sprinkle on top.

Enjoy!

no, the picture is not of the laksa I made. It looked pretty similar. I couln't find my camera and the picture I took with Myles' phone made it look like creepy death laksa so I cheated. Hope it inspires.

winter

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swelter

I haven't had a warm/hot shower in quite a while.
I hide in supermarkets where the air con blazes.
It was great when I got frozen peas.
I do not feel like cooking.
The stove/oven/microwave/food is too hot.
I have created my own private pool in the bathtub.
It was 30 degrees at midnight last night.
I turned off the fan to save electricity.
Only to turn it on again five minutes later.

It's a heatwave this is true.

But I'm lucky

I have a bathtub
I have a shopping centre
I have peas and food
I have a fan
I have a home.

It must be scary for the people up in northern Qld sitting in the evacuation centre not knowing if they will have these things tomorrow or next week.

There is a big ole cyclone bearing down on them. I bet they are feeling the heat more than me.

Image Credit - his crooked smiles

bun in the oven

 

I'm pretty sure today was really hot.

Like REALLY hot.

It's either that or the extra blood and warmth in my body is really starting to set in.
I'm now sitting at home in the cool breeze of the evening but today I was roasting.

I got home and collapsed on the lounge in a fit of hotness. I'd been stuck in yucky Saturday traffic.

Myles suggested a cold shower. I went for the bath. Cold showers always leave me with that feeling like I can't breathe.

I think I may be setting up semi-permanent residence in the bath this summer.

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