Welcome to the first Saturday of the month where I share everything I have made over the previous month.I started working again at the beginning of last month and apparently it took away all my baking inspiration and energy, but if you invite people around then you have to do something right!
We did have a lovely lunch in the Yarra Valley with our kids. It was the first time my husband has had his kids all in the same place at the same time in about 3 years so we went out to a nice winery restaurant there, and then we went to the chocolaterie. I bought a couple of things from the Yarra Valley chocolaterie but forgot to take a picture. I might need to take another drive to get some more of their mint chocolate. It was so good.
We did bring home one of their brownie kits. It comes with all the dry ingredients as well as the baking tray. The intention was to make it while our daughter was staying with us but it didn't happen. Maybe I should do that tomorrow night. I do have a much made brownie recipe that I usually make from scratch so it will be interesting to see how this one compares.
Before she went back to the UK we did have an afternoon get together for family friends so had around 12 people here for two different types of soup and bread (pumpkin and pea and ham). We did make curried sausage rolls (which I have previously posted about here) and I made the white chocolate cheesecake which has been a go to dessert for years. I originally shared the recipe on my blog back in 2009 but I think I was making it for a couple of years before then so it is a long term favourite
We went away last weekend to Port Macquarie which is on the mid North coast of New South Wales. We had an amazing weekend. It is a beautiful area with great beaches, lots of big rivers, mountains and more!
We did go to a lovely little cafe in a place called Dunbogan where you can feed the fish. On Saturday we went to visit the Big Banana which was about an hour and a half away. It's in a town called Coffs Harbour.
The highlight was finding out that there was a Dutch food place so we stopped there for lunch and had a sharing platter which included Bitterballen, two different types of croquettes and frikandellen served with fries and some delicious sauces.
There is also a miniature Dutch village out the back, which Robert said is a very Dutch thing! We were highly amused by seeing the quite large goanna climbing all over one of the houses. The tiny inhabitants must have been terrified!
We also bought some packs of Nasi Goreng Spice mix from the grocery store so that will keep us going for a bit longer. Hopefully we will be able to get some more packs next year.
On Saturday night we went to a typical country pub where I had a gigantic chicken schnitzel with a surf topping (basically garlic prawns and sauce). It's not a normal topping option for schnitzel but it was delicious
Speaking of Dutch food, we were very excited that we were able to get hold of some Chocomel which is Dutch chocolate milk. It makes the most delicious hot chocolate and we fell in love with it when we were in The Netherlands a few years ago. You can't normally get it but we were lucky that Aldi had it for a couple of weeks.
52 Recipes Challenge
Here are the new recipes we tried this month.
Egg Curry - So good, but we can only have it when my son isn't home as he doesn't like eggs.
Pumpkin Soup - we have made this heaps of times before but it was the first time we tried this particular recipe from the Recipetin Eats book.
Weekend Cooking posts from the last month
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Afternoon Tea Diaries: Ritz Carlton Melbourne
Making Scones
The Whisky Widow by Karen Brooks
Saturday - Away
Sunday - Away
Monday - Steak egg and chips
Tuesday - Coconut Prawn Curry
Wednesday - Pizza
Thursday - Pizza
Friday - Takeaway
I am sharing this post with In My Kitchen hosted at Sherry's Pickings.
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