Orangey

My heart leapt when I found this orange enamel pot at the op shop on Saturday. It might need to be christened with a fondue! It matches my orange beads and my orchid perfectly.

Do you know any good vegetarian fondue recipes?

Fast food

I must admit that sometimes cooking isn't my favourite household task. And sometimes before grocery shopping day there's no food in the house apart from some manky old veges and some aged baking products. On those days, it's good to have a little fast food. Like beer pizza.

If you have these three things in your house you can make beer pizza:
You need 4 cups self-raising flour, 1 teaspoon of salt and a bottle of beer (or a can - just add as much as you need until it goes doughy) .

Mix the dry ingredients, then add the beer. Mix, then give it a bit of a knead.

Roll it out (it can make one giant pizza or a couple of smaller ones).
Add the toppings of your choice (or whatever you have left over in the fridge) and bake at 180 degrees celsius for 20 minutes.
Too easy! You might even have some leftovers for tomorrow's lunch!

Sweet sweets

Mr Millicent Crow and I made coconut ice, Russian fudge and peppermint chocolate crackle for Xmas presents this year, and I drew this wee bird to make into a label for them.

Here they are all labelled

I had forgotten that making sweets is a bit tricky, with soft ball stages and crackly stick stages and all that...but we ended up with enough successful batches.

Now to keep myself from eating all the chocolate crumbs...