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Chit Chat / Re: What's for Dinner Tonight?
« on: March 01, 2024, 09:44:43 pm »
Curried scallop pie. Mango trifle.

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: March 01, 2024, 09:41:13 pm »
Marina, what a lovely day. Happy Birthday to your DH for his 70 th.
Cookie, the gluten free episode was truly awful. Ingredients and recipes have improved but still couldn’t find any really good substitutes. When I ate a slice of my home made bread I thought I’d gone to heaven.

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you cooking today?
« on: March 01, 2024, 03:03:04 am »
Nice, Cookie.
Cooked 23 SD crumpets and mixed grain bread sticks and rolls. Looks like I’m not gluten intolerant. Thank heavens for that. My tummy upset may be due to a reaction between blood pressure meditation and fat/ oil.

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Chit Chat / Re: What's for Dinner Tonight?
« on: March 01, 2024, 02:57:01 am »
Tomato and Olive Bruschetta.plums.

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: March 01, 2024, 02:53:41 am »
Cookie, not good. Did you have a reaction to the first jab.?  I had red swelling for 2 weeks after the first jab. Wasn’t sore.
Oh Marina, good and bad news. How on earth did you put up with it?
Yesterday my TMX consultant came and attached my machine to WiFi.
Gym and baking.

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you cooking today?
« on: February 28, 2024, 07:04:27 pm »
Mab, you and your tomatoes are amazing . I have only one bush of small tomatoes and I enjoy picking a handful each morning. I cut some in half, mixed them with olives and basil from the garden and olive oil. Very tasty side. When we have a glut of homegrown produce it is challenging.
The local Spanish restaurant in Ballarat, serve good bread, toasted and rubbed with a clove of garlic and a raw tomato, with a drizzle of good olive oil. It is one of my favourite dishes there.

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Chit Chat / Re: What's for Dinner Tonight?
« on: February 28, 2024, 06:53:16 pm »
Trying a new recipe. Lemon and garlic prawns over rice with silverbeet mixed through. Fresh plums from next door.

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: February 28, 2024, 06:49:22 pm »
Thank you to all the brave people fighting the fires. I think everything to do with the management of the fires has improved, 
Last night I went out with a neighbour for Dinner. There are several Cocktail bars in Ballarat, that serve food. 3 are owned by the same people. I’ve been to 2 and am not impressed. Last night, without asking , all the food was brought to the table at the same time. That is the shared starters and mains. The food was just ok.
Of the 3 meals that I have had out recently only one has been good and that was at a pub.

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you cooking today?
« on: February 27, 2024, 08:03:16 pm »
No cooking, too hot.
The producer of a tv cooking show is the niece of yesterday visitors. They showed her my Blog. She is very interested in what ‘ old ‘ people are cooking. She also said that the Brazilian Cheese Puffs were all the rage at the moment. She comes from Perth.

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Chit Chat / Re: What's for Dinner Tonight?
« on: February 27, 2024, 07:57:29 pm »
Leftovers. Roast pork and salad.

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: February 27, 2024, 07:55:55 pm »
Had a lovely day yesterday with visitors. I was about to buy a new Dyson Vacuum Cleaner, but they showed me how to throughly clean the old one. I now have a new/ old cleaner.
Today is going to be very nasty. Bush fires still not out, north of Ballarat. DD is bringing Teddy the bull dog over to stay with me. I’m sure we will have a fine time both doing nothing.
KAtie, I hope you are ok.

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you cooking today?
« on: February 26, 2024, 08:27:27 pm »
Cooking a pork loin roast but serving it with potato salad, tomato salad and a tossed green salad. Hope it works.

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: February 26, 2024, 08:21:53 pm »
Visitors for lunch. Better get going.

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: February 24, 2024, 08:09:51 pm »
Cookie, it’s so good that DH gets out and around. Nice photo.
Last night DD took me out to dinner. The restaurant is on the lake, next to the boat club the she is involved with. She is encouraging families to use the facilities with BBQ etc for their entertainment when not in use. We watched a family have a picnic on the pier and then have a paddle in small boats. Good family fun and costs them nothing.
The young man I taught to make bread and SD crumpets has become  really enthusiastic and sent me photos of his efforts. He and his partner own a hotel in Ballarat. They have leased the dining facilities out. It has been a disaster. He suggested that I might like to run cooking classes there. I think I’m too old for such a commitment but could probably help them set up a cooking school there. We will see.

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you cooking today?
« on: February 24, 2024, 07:51:14 pm »
I thought that the Anzacs were more cold weather biscuits, but like  Cookie’s they have just disappeared.
Visitors for Dinner tomorrow and lunch Tuesday. I’ll attempt to get most ready today. KFC chicken tenders, salad and chips. Pancakes Monday.  Brazilian cheese puffs, roast pork loin apple sauce, potato salad and tossed salad, Mango Fluff. Almond Crackle biscuits and coffee. Tuesday.

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