In My Kitchen - October

Welcome to the first Saturday of the month where I share everything I have made over the previous month. We were away for 2 weeks in October so didn't have a lot of time for baking. I'll be sharing some of the food highlights of our trip next week

Last month I mentioned that we had bought a chocolate brownies pack from the Yarra Valley Chocolaterie and this month I made it. It was super easy in that you just had to add melted butter and eggs, and the kit comes in the baking tray so easy clean up too. It was nice, although I was surprised when my son came out and said that's not the normal one you make is it, and then said he preferred the normal one. I did take some photos but unfortunately my phone died while we were away so it is currently in getting repaired. I hope that I don't lose all my photos. It was a bit of a pain to not have a phone while we were away but there wasn't much I could do about it. 

We did buy some new things from the Reject Shop. They do have some fun homewares ranges. You have to be quick though as they do change the range quite regularly.  I have bought a few bits and pieces over the last 18 months or so. This time it was a small flamingo plate, an elephant bowl and then two mugs. I love my M mug. I was hoping to find an R one for Robert but no joy so he got an Amsterdam one instead.

 

I did go to an author event last month It was a bit different to my normal author event. I went to hear cookbook author and Ottolenghi co-writer Helen Goh speak. As a bonus there were nibbles which were from several of her recipes. Helen Goh was born in Malaysia but moved to Australia when she was young before moving to London which is where she started working for Yotam Ottolenghi. The conversation was a bit of fun, and she confessed to things like loving the meat pies that you can get at the petrol station and that being one of the things she misses when she was in not in Australia. She was promoting her new baking book, Baking and the Meaning of Life.

Some friends of our went away and came back bearing gifts. In this case it was Croatian wine, Turkish Delight and a super cute Finnish moose corkscrew. In return we are giving them a coconut bowl shell from the Maldives. 

52 Recipes Challenge

We didn't try any new recipes this month. 

Weekend Cooking posts from the last month

The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie by Rachel Linden (book review)

Dish (podcast)

Making Couscous (foodie quote)

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