Clever recycling

I saw this at the Barracks Theatre a week or so ago. I love that something as simple as an airline alcohol bottle can be recycled into an art work.

Too clever

Close up

Slow Roasted Belly Pork

I have eaten belly pork in many restaurants and as I now know how it should taste etc. I wanted to try to cook it myself. This month's Delicious Magazine had a very good basic recipe.

Just out of the oven

Delicious with mashed potato

Autumn salad

I have never made a salad with radicchio before. Though the radicchio leaves are bitter they go wonderfully with the sweet fatty pork. The crisp pancetta, toasted hazelnuts and the honey in the dressing make this a salad one I will definitely make again.

Lamb and Risonni

This dish has become one of my favourites. It is so easy to prepare, meat and pasta in one dish. It just needs a salad and yoghurt.

Great with roasted tomatoes

Green beans with onions

For Good Friday lunch I also made my favourite green bean dish.

The table

Italian Easter Pie

I found this recipe in last weeks' Brisbane News Magazine. they often have very good recipies. I could tell by the ingredients that is would be good especially as it used a good amount of fresh oregano.

You can see the whole egg in the centre

Looks just like in the magazine

First of the Easter cooking

I had a few things things in mind to cook over this Easter break. I started off with Tomato Relish. I have made this before, but this time I used less sugar. It is much better.

Tomato Relish

I made my favourite 'healthy' vegitarian muffins to have instead of hot cross buns. They are great as Easter gifts along with a jar of the relish.

As a gift

The muffins have cream cheese in the middle and are best served warm with sour cream and tomato relish.

Easter 2012

I have never done a table decoration for Easter before. Always for Christmas, the beginning of Spring and Autumn etc.
I saw these white rabbits and couldn't resist them.

The white cloth came from the Cornubia garage sale and the white pot was $5 on a throw out table from 3 years ago. I bought the pot of flowers for the Autumn colourings.

Easter 2012

A great idea

I attended a lovely 'baby shower' lunch at Harvey's on James Street. I do not like baby showers with silly games etc. and only went to this one as I was promised a good lunch fabulous company and no games.

That is exactly how it was. A lovely Sunday afternoon. The hostess' sister who couldn't be there organized a little treat for each place setting.

I found out they they were made by a young Mother with small children and this is the business she started to be able to stay home with her children.

Excellent Rocky Road

I think that this is a wonderful idea especially when it was made with such care.