making muesli mouthwatering
February 13, 2008
Muesli’s either the best tasting or worst tasting breakfast food you can find on the shelf, depending on what you do with it.
Spending my first five years in Singapore and growing up in an Asian household meant that I never really ate typical Aussie breakkies like cereal and toast. You find that in China, Malaysia, India and other Asian countries simply eat savory in the morning. What we eat for lunch or dinner is the same thing at breakfast. And it’s WAY better!!! You can’t imagine the boredom presented to me at breakky when I went on Aussie camps. Cereal and milk. Toast. Eggs and bacon if you’re lucky. I couldn’t believe this is all white people eat (at least when I was in Germany, breakfast was deluxe! Varieties of bread, cheese and hams and exquisite bakery goodies! Oh, the smell of the bakeries!). Plus, it’s all so processed!
Anyway, on Tidal River SUFM I began to enjoy muesli for the very first time. Coles toasted muesli with milk and… wait for it… stewed rhubarb. The latter made all the difference! Suddenly muesli was tolerable; but more than that, it tasted good! I looked forward to it!
The key to muesli (since it’s such a bland taste), I discovered is to add lots of healthy, fun foods. It’s gotta be good quality too. There’s no point adding fruit salad if it’s just out of the SPC can. That’s far too sweet and artificial. Make your own fruit salad or rhubarb stew. Add yoghurt and serve with milk.
fruit salad trough
February 11, 2008
Called it a ‘trough’ cos Mum made so much of it and proceeded filled up a huge reglangular bowl to the top, it looked like something pigs would eat out of!
Anyway, not entirely sure what’s in it. But it tasted good with strawberry yoghurt and my plum honey & cinnamon syrup.
prerna’s party pancakes
February 9, 2008
Warragul today at Prerna’s house. What a God send she is. We had a wonderful catch up time over the last couple of days, soaking in frienship, wisdom, strength, girly love. Today we went to the local state park and walked the Moonlit Trail (or something of that order. I can never remember the names of anything, though they were thoroughly confusing cos the three tracks we took had similar names and we could never remember which order they came in).
Also picked some blackberries seeing as they’re in season. Only hope they’ve not been sprayed with DDT haha!
These fabulous pancakes are made from her party pancake maker. It’s a total waste of money but at least they make great looking pancakes and make ‘em fast! It even comes with a scooper to tell you precisely how much mixture to put in. Where’s the skill?!
Prerna’s Garden
She also has a colorful garden, beautifully crafted, designed and maintained by the Gardener. Where’s the skill?!
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peanut butter crunchy choc-chip cookies
February 8, 2008
Made these for Prerna’s youth group BBQ in Warragul… which is starting in 10 minutes as I write. Unfortunately I’m not a fatty foods detox regime at the moment so I didn’t get to eat any of these scrumptious cookies. Well, I snuck one in anyway. Warm with milk: it was enough to make you fall over as it melted in your mouth.
Above: cookies basking in the golden rays of evening light
Below: stacks and stacks of cookies…
fruit salad w/ honey plum sauce
January 29, 2008
Thought of a great way to use my honey plum sauce. One was to marinate pork in it and grill it (I once had a delicious cranberry pork dish prepared by my landlord in Townsville. He put other herbs and spices in it. But it tasted great with rice). The other way was to use it as a sauce on top of fruit salad! Judith, Lilian and Roxanne from ROAR came to have lunch in my backyard today and really enjoyed it. I’m glad 
stone fruit salad
January 29, 2008
banana walnut bread
December 25, 2007
Breakfast is served!
plum picking
December 24, 2007
Enjoying the fruit of my mum’s labour, literally…
basil omlette w cracked pepper & cheese
December 21, 2007
Made with freshly picked home-grown basil.
“Basiiilll!” — Mrs Fawlty
