The tradition still goes on but we do not cook for the shearers . Their contractor delivers a platter of food , summertime it is like a smorgasbord of food chicken ham egg salad , and a pasta salad . When it gets a bit colder they have individual roasts with mash and veggies. Done it the foil containers . They just heat it up in the microwave. We supply tea and coffee , biscuits and normally toasty food like bread  ham tomato cheese . When we do a big shear I will make a cake , just depends . My MIL will always have a cooked meal for my DH while shearing is on . I just try to always have a spear meal from the night before so he can take that .

Cookie will have to put this on my to read list , I did see it the other day and thought it looked good. Trying to start to read Wimmera at the moment .

Well Melbourne is always eventful ! DD and I were travelling along Westgate bridge outbound and now there are more roadworks so 80ks only when you come off it for quite awhile . All of a sudden I lost power 😬 In five lanes of traffic semis every way I looked , hazards lights on then trying to merge to the left . Had to be in the fourth lane.Really never want to be in that situation again . By the time I managed to get on the little bit on the side of the road I was shaking . Deep breath turned the car off and ran through every possibility. Knew that there had to be a me error as nothing came up on the dashboard. I must have knocked the seed limiter button ( now on 100+++ ) drive slowly on the side of road to test that all ok ( hazards lights on ) . Stopped in Ballarat and had all checked out . So pleased that all ok . Long drive to return DD to boardo and pick up DS after hockey practice then home . Quite day now .

Last nights dinner was Creamy brown rice chicken soup for DD and I, on the road to Melb for emergency braces wire in gum appointment. Slow cooked lamb shanks for DH ( it's his birthday dinner) and DS , ready for when they got home last night .

Put the two ducks in the slow cooker with fresh ginger, mandarin ,onion , juice as we had no open port or red. Then made a sauce with cranberries, mandarin juice ,ginger , pomegranate molasses, soy, red current jelly , needed cherries but all out of date so the cranberries were used added orange juice for more liquid and juice. Cooked it in the Themo , it tastes nice just not sure if it is balanced . Potato and leek soup on now . In the old bcb there was a potato and leek soup , thought I would search cookidoo and found one in Switzerland site so downloaded op it to my lists and programmed it for today , not bad a lot more leeks but just adapted it for what I had , now kids can make it if they choose to one day ! 

I am sure I read that the Royal Wedding cake is a similar  to one in Sweet Cakes on cookidoo in UK or the book ,think there is a lemon curd that goes with it .

Have to do another baking cooking day . All for the weekend as I am going on a girls weeken trip away . Not good timing with planting started . so better go and create more food now . Told DH to only have the tomato soup , that is his for the rest of the week.

Well had to start on a cook up today . Made the crackled Almond biscuits and mandarin polenta biscuits , both very nice . Then some pumpkin soup with ristoni pasta .