Yummy Dinner...

After being broken into and having my poor baby (computer) stolen i finally have a new one - unfortunately when i plugged my backup disk in i found out it is corrupt!! AAHHH...i have lost everything, all my kids photos, all our work info and all my wedding planning stuff for our wedding in September! A note to everyone to make double backups or use an internet backup service....i wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy if i had one!

Anyway - i'm not here to whinge about it, i'm hear to share my dinner with you - I made it up and it is a winner!!

"Kate's dont know what you would call it Pouches..."

Ingredients:

Bacon - about 5 rashers
garlic
2tbs butter
2tbs plain flour
some broccoli
some carrots - i used my neighbours fresh ones and i think that made a huge difference!
Stock - about 200 - 300 ml
cornflour - just a bit
1/2 a thing of cream

Method:

Steam broccoli and carrots.
Fry garlic with bacon in butter until nearly crisp...add plain flour and stir for a minute. Add stock and cook for further minute or 2.
Mash the broccoli and carrots roughly and add to mixture....
Stir in the cream and if needed add some cornflour that has been mixed with water or stock and stir again until thickish (like a pie filling)...

Put the mixture in pastry triangles and fold up at the sides so that it kinda looks like a pouch - brush with egg water or butter and cook for about 25mins at 180deg c..

YUM!!

The mixture doesnt look that great but my kids who don't like pastry munched 3 bowls of it on its own each!

Cut one whole pastry sheet in half diagonally to make a triangle then put a blob of mix in the middle and pouch it up!

A pic of what i get to look at while i'm cooking!
(especially for you little diva - nasty ay ha ha)

mmmmm....

Our crazy weather

Crazy crazy weather has been going on here in QLD (and all over the world, what's going on Mother Nature?!)....these pics are around the corner from my home taken yesterday morning...

My 2 boys....the entrance to the surf club can't be seen for the foam!

Is it snowing? Nope just sea foam...

The poor surf club cleaners car got swept away while he was working!

Hard to beleive that these pics were taken yesterday and today there is not one cloud in the sky! The weather today is so beautiful - we even just got back from having ice cream at the beach!

We Love Little Pinwheel!

Our newest stockist "little pinwheel" is just so great and thats all there is too it, i love the simplicity of hayleys site, its so clean and crisp and the fact that her husband is a photographer is a big fat bonus cause it makes her site look even greater - if that was even possible!

Hayley and her husband photographed some of our clothes for their blog - check it out HERE
And of course you can purchase our clothes along with heaps of other funky brands HERE

Project Matryoshka

These are just so cute! I bought the fabric panel from HERE for $27 and whipped them up and stuffed them with organic cotton in under half an hour...I had all intention in putting them in my daughters room but now they sit beautifully in our bookshelf - my house is starting to look like a nursery with all the cute stuff that i buy "for my children's room" but can't bear to part with - even if it is only in the next room....

Here is another "child room buy" that has ended up in our lounge room....Amanda from My Munchkin Home is so friendly and has loads of wall decals that you will fall in love with!!!

choc chip cookies with chickpeas.....

YUMMMMMM...sounds odd but you have to try them, have a look at the amount of sugar and butter in them, no wonder they are delicious! Mr 4 screwed his nose up when we put the chick peas in the mixture but he has since then eaten 3 cookies (they have only been out of the oven 5mins) and i think he has forgotten about the chick peas altogether! You seriously wouldn't know they are in there - don't think it matters much that they are eating 4 or 5 chickpeas per cookie when there is that much sugar and butter in them though!! I used 3/4 the amount of sugar and butter and they are still yummy!

Lost in the big smoke....

Today i went to deliver some stock to our brisbane stockist Groovy Kids which i fell in love with instantly.....while there i got very lost and the fact that you can't really turn around anywhere if you miss the turn off led me to frustration so parked up and took the opportunity to do some touristy things.....went to the museum, then the science centre and then the big wheel of Brisbane....i love random unplanned days, they always seem to be the best!

Kate...xx

Boxes, Boxes, Boxes.....

Well haven't we been busy little bees...averaging about 18 hours per day at the warehouse getting orders packed since our winter stock arrived...And after packing 3 pallettes worth we don't care if we never see another cardboard box! Hopefully by the time our next season arrives we will have enough pennies to employ someone to do it and not just count on our wonderful friend Janine to help us....Thanks noon...xxx

Beach Day...

The days have been so beautiful .......

Our Winter Range is here!!!

Yey....... I am sure that there is a lot of you that will be happy to hear that our beautiful winter garments have arrived into the country after a LONG stint in customs and hiccups with shipping they will be in our hot little hands on The Gold Coast tomorrow!! We are very excited, however at the same time, Kate and i know that we are going to have an extremely hectic week packing around forty plus orders... wooow!
Oh, I should also update you all on our performance at the recent NRA Fashion awards at Pacific Fair. The girls performed extremely well, we were so proud of them all and our clothes looked great, even if I say so myself..he he. We didn't get through to the finals though, which was a little disappointing, but what a great experience it was and a fantastic way to show case our range! here are some photos above to show you all.

mmmm muffins...

The other day i took our photographer Fran from lumin-essence.com.au out to the Eco Village to show her where she will be shooting our wedding and i gave my kids a muffin we had made that morning to eat in the car on the way out - anyway when we got there i found crumbs in every single cm of the back of the car....so when i read lisa's blog (sweetbeets) today and saw that she had put a recipe for banana muffins that apparently don't crumble everywhere i thought i would give it a go!

YUUUMMMMMMM....they are the best muffins i have ever tasted! Seriously...the secret ingredient - yogurt - works!!

Here's the recipe:

Banana Muffins

2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
cinnamon (optional)

6 tbsp softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup plain or vanilla yogurt (I used fresh passionfruit yogurt which i think made it even better)
1 cup mashed bananas (about 3 bananas)

Combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Cream the butter and sugar using a mixer. Beat in the eggs and rest of wet ingredients. Add the dry ingredients.

Bake at 180 deg C for 25 minutes. Makes 12 muffins.

Another thing that lisa said in her blog is how much her kids love helping cook and that she wants to make the most of it and that is soooo true, i think it is something so simple that we take for granted...Xaviah loves it and I hope he will for a little while longer - I'm not quite ready for him to be too cool to cook with his mama.....

xx

p.s. This is all the crumbs these delicious muffins produced - and X is one of the messiest eaters known to man kind...