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Catching up…

I have had a few photos and bits and pieces I have been meaning to post for the last week or so and just haven’t got around to it…so here they are all in one!

COUSINS
We have just enjoyed a visit from Carli, Winston, Mason and Maya. Oscar loved playing with his cousins…its nice that he is old enough to enjoy them now and to have fun playing with them. Maya has a little obsession with dressing up – she discovered Filipa’s underwear drawer one morning!

Oscar and Mason watching some telly together:

FILIPA GOES TO AFRICA:
After what seemed like forever of talking and planning and waiting, Filipa finally left for Africa on Friday! She arrived in Africa yesterday and starts a 3 1/2 week safari tour straight away before embarking on her adventure doing volunteer work in the school. We have had a couple of emails from her already, one from her overnight stay and shopping trip in Bankok on the way and Mum got another one this morning saying that she had lost her credit card already! Good one Fil, lucky she has back-up, and a good Mother to fix everything up for her at home!!! Can’t wait to hear al about what she is doing. She was in the newspaper on Saturday:

HYGIENE:
I came inside from hanging out the washing this morning to find Oscar sitting on his chair brushing his teeth…with 3 toothbrushes! He hasn’t been able to reach the top of the vanity in the bathroom until today! Oh well, at least he is doing a good thing and learning the importance of teeth brushing and sharing! …it could be worse!

May 8, 2007

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Recipe Monday

ok, I’m late again! Stayed at Mums again on Sunday night and spent the day over there so it didn’t happen! Perhaps I should just change the name to “Recipe Tuesday”…

I made this cake for Filipa’s birthday last week, but didn’t take any photos of it, so here is the photo from the book! (It looks much better than mine anyway!) It was a delicious cake and didn’t require much effort at all. Recipe comes from a Tupperware cookbook.

Hummingbird Cake
440g can crushed pineapple in natural juice
2 ripe bananas
1c caster sugar
3 eggs
100ml light vegetable oil
1/3c shredded coconut
1 1/3c self-raising flour
1tsp ground cinnamon

Cream cheese frosting:
125g cream cheese, softened
1 lemon
1/2c pure icing sugar
1/4c dried white mulberries, banana chips or pecans for decoration

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcuis.
2. Drain the pineapple, reserving 100ml of the juice. Mash the bananas in a large bowl. Stir in the crushed pineapple, reserved juice, sugar, eggs and oil.
3. Add the coconut, flour and cinnamon, stir until well combined.
4. Pour mixture into a large round ring-shaped cake pan. Bake for 1 hour or until firm when tested. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before turning out of the pan and cooling on a wire rack.
5. Cool completely before icing with the cream cheese frosting. Decorate as desired.

Cream cheese frosting:
1. Soften the cream cheese by letting it stand at room temperature for 1 hour.
2. Zest the lemon. Beat the cream cheese with spatula. Sift he icing sugar in and add the lemon zest. Mix together well. Spread over the cake, chill until serving.

This cake gets better the longer it is stored. It should keep well for 5 days in an airtight container.

May 8, 2007

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To market, to market…

Hehehe! What a funny little adventure. Marnie, Mel and I went to the Deloraine markets today with our home made and home baked goods. We were all a bit nervous and apprehensive about how it would all turn out, but had to do it because we had been saying that we would do it for ages and never actually got around to it! We had a great time, and actually did quite well for our first market experience…looking forward to the next one now! I took a couple of photos but they were quite dodgy (because I felt silly taking them with people looking at me!) but will upload some of Marnie’s photos when she emails them to me.
🙂

May 5, 2007

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African birthday

On Monday night we celebrated Filipa’s 23rd birthday…African-style!!
Fil is off to Africa on Friday for three and a half months to do some volunteer work in an orphanage/primary school with a friend she went to school with. I am excited to hear about her adventures and all of the fun things she does. We will miss her though – especially Oscar…he LOVES Fil!!

Mark took the whole dress-up idea to the highest level! Hopefully Filipa won’t meet someone as scary-looking as him in her travels!