These biscuits are based on some Honey Oat Biscuits from Itchin' Kitchen. Based on Jess' suggestions for making them oat free I have used a mix of quinoa flakes, organic desiccated coconut & hazelnut meal or flax seed meal. I used a mix of brown rice flour, corn starch, tapioca flour and yellow maize flour. … Continue reading Maple Quinoa Biscuits
This morning my daughter asked me to check the answers that she had in a crossword puzzle that had both cryptic and straight clues. After checking the answers that she had filled in, I helped her with a couple more clues. As I gave her some hints or told her what a few of the… Continue reading Learning To Solve Crosswords and Learning About Faith
I managed to finish 3 books in July: The Great Escape: health, wealth and the origins of inequality by Angus Deaton Talks about how much the world has changed, particularly since WWII. How combating childhood illnesses has increased life expectancy and how many nations are better off. But this has created a bigger gap between… Continue reading July 2018 Reading Log
This weekend I'm going to a MOPS Conference. This made me think about leaving my kids when I used to go away for MOPS or other things when they were younger. In 2010 my husband & I drove to Sydney for a National MOPS Conference. My husband was organising the tech side of the conference. … Continue reading Letters while Away
Recently we celebrated my daughters birthday. We had an extended family dinner with 16 people in attendance. As well as the food intolerance's in our family my niece is Coeliac. All of the menu was gluten free apart from the lollies. I was too busy organising and enjoying the company so we only have photos… Continue reading A Birthday Dinner Menu
For a number of years I've been getting what I call my toothache headaches or a headache in my jaw or sinuses. I have a pain in my upper jaw that is like a headache & there can also be pain in other parts of my forehead. In the last 2 years I've ended up… Continue reading What’s Causing My Headaches?
I'm a little late but here's what I finished reading in June. I finished 2 books: Mothers & Others - Edited by Maggie Scott, Miriam Sved, Christie Nieman, Maya Linden and Natalie Kon-yu This is a collection of fiction & non-fiction short stories by Australian writers. Some of the women are mothers and some are… Continue reading June 2018 Reading Log
This is just a quick post to let you know that Feed My Family is now on YouTube. I will continue to post regularly here. The YouTube clips really just complement some of the posts. For example each month I plan to video about one of the books I've read and link this to my… Continue reading Feed My Family Now On YouTube
Last weekend we were looking after a 3 year old for the day. We drove into the city to pick something up & as we headed towards the city my husband said to the 3 year old "See those tall buildings, that's where we're going." The 3 year old replied "cause they eat their vegetables." … Continue reading Recording Memories of Children
At one stage I was blogging regularly about the past weeks menu. Here's the link to the last one I posted, well over a year ago. I don't plan to start this regularly again but thought I'd share some of what's been on our menu in the last 10 days or so. Some of my… Continue reading Some Menu Offerings
