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I Heart You #5

A heart on a t shirt from my BFF  Helene who is visiting from America this month.

Project 365 - Week 4

Week of Project 365 is complete. You can view the original photos at my Project 365 blog.

A Short Break

I Heart you #4

Wire heart for holding precious cards and memos.

Dunelm-Mill 

..and this sweet plate from my friend Rosemary.

 

...and finally a request... ..my dear friend Maryam of My Marrakesh is a finalist (best African blog) in the Bloggies . Please visit her blog and I'd love if you could vote for her  at the  2010 Bloggies site........voting closes 31st January. Thank you.

Project 365 - week 3

Visit winosandfoodies project 365 to see the entire week in photos.

Bread Wafers with Tomato and Chilli Jam to serve with Cheese

Here is my current favourite mid afternoon snack . Goat cheese served with bread wafers and a tomato and chilli jam.

BREAD WAFERS

Day old bread (or older), sliced

Remove crusts

Roll flat with a rolling pin

Brush with oil

Sprinkle with salt flakes and lemon zest. (play around with other flavours if you wish)

Bake in 180C oven for about 5 - 7 minutes. Keep watch as they go from ready to overdone in the blink of an eye.

Here's how mine look. They will be dry like a cracker.

TOMATO AND CHILI JAM

INGREDIENTS

500 grams tomatoes, peeled and roughly chopped. Remove seeds if you wish, I don't bother.

1 and 1/4 cups sugar

juice of 1 lime

1/4 cup white balsamic vinegar

4 red chillies, thinly sliced (do not remove seeds)

1 teaspoon salt flakes

METHOD

Put the tomatoes in a large bowl, add the sugar and stir to combine. Place a plate on top and leave to stand for several hours

Put the tomato mixture in a heavy based pan, add the juice, vinegar, chillies and salt, bring slowly to the boil, stirring so sugar dissolves.

Reduce to a simmer, cook for about 30 - 35 minutes, stirring every few minutes, until mixture starts to thicken.

Pour into hot sterilised jars and leave to cool.

Seal when cold.

I don't know how long this will last as we eat ours in about 2 weeks.

More tomato recipes for those enjoying our summer produce

Use Real Butter -  tomato garlic pasta sauce

Simply Recipes - Basic tomato sauce recipes

White On Rice - Tomato jam

Oat Biscuits - Recipe

These are so easy to make I whipped them up when I had the oats out making breakfast yesterday.  The recipe is from an article on healthy eating in a newspaper. I replace the margarine with butter so maybe not so healthy...but tasty.

OAT COOKIES (BISCUITS)

150 grams sugar

2 tablespoons golden syrup

150 grams butter

2 tablespoons milk

150 grams porridge oats

150 grams self raising flour

METHOD

Heat oven to 180C

In a saucepan - melt sugar, syrup, butter and milk over a low heat until dissolved.

Add oats and flour, stirring well.

Place teaspoons of mix onto baking  paper lined tray.

Bake 10 - 15 minutes.

Allow to cool for 5 minutes before removing from tray.

Kitchenware Shopping

Kitchenware Plus has been on my must do list from the day I first saw it, while driving along the M1. Finally I had an excuse...under my Christmas tree was a  voucher with my name on it.

decisions decisions....pretty glass bottles maybe...

...what would you serve in a red bowl?

Amongst all the colour ....cute little white milk jugs

....I see stars and spots

...and a whole shelf full of coloured serving ware

..... and a rainbow of spoons

....glass from Spain for my olive oil

...sensible storage and preserving jars

Do I need a chef's jacket? No. Scales with mixing bowls ....and one can never have too many wooden spoons.

Oooh look ......a beautiful white domed  Tagine

.... and a  mortar and pestle for grinding my spices.

I fell in love with these art deco salt and pepper mills for the table from William Bounds.

Cupcakes and coffee.....

.... I like a little music with my champagne.

..and one last look at the pretty purple glass.

 

But I was on a mission. I  wanted a pasta maker.... a really good pasta maker. Not some cheap namby, pamby pasta maker. I wanted a Made in Italy Marcato Atlas 150...and that's what I have. Soon you'll be seeing home made pasta at my table.

I Heart You #3

Hearts of Pastry.....

.......and from my friend Debbie in Paris

Project 365 - Week 2

Week 2 complete. Follow my daily posts at winosandfoodies - project 365 or visit my flickr page .

Peaches in Marsala

My favourite, favourite summer dessert of all time.

I use a cheap $6 Angoves Bookmark Marsala wine.  It ain't the real thing  but it is eminently suitable for cooking fruit in.  Sshh, when no one is looking I take a swig from the bottle...ssshhh.

Place some firm peaches in a pot, drizzle a little honey over, split a vanilla bean and drop it into the pot, pour over half a bottle of marsala....come on...that's only 3 bucks worth.

Simmer peaches until soft, then remove them with a slotted spoon, boil the syrup till it reduces and pour over the peaches.

I love them served at room temperature with pouring cream.

Day Trip To Inala

First stop Tan Thanh for the best $9 lunch ever

Red chili for those who like it hot

lunch over - time to explore

Still hungry - try the Peking Duck next door

Food shopping? Yes

Pork Maw is new to me. How do you cook it?

Seafood too

take a break for bubble coffee at Aimee Angel

or maybe you feel like sugar cane juice

There are clothing shops

and for girly girls there is pink

little bowls to store your trinkets

...... and lastly the people who are so much more interesting than in my hood

I Heart You #2

<3 on glass

Project 365 - Week 1

Week 1 of Project 365 is complete.  I have set up a separate  winosandfoodies project 365 blog where you can follow my daily posts.

I Heart You - The Beginning #1

Happy New Year everyone.

I love the combination of the words twenty ten. Don't you? With that combination I have a feeling it is going to be a good year.

New years resolutions have never been part of my vocabulary. Well maybe when I was 16, but not anymore.

Instead I  have decided on a couple of projects for this year. They both involve my camera and hopefully I will see an improvement in my photos by twenty eleven.

The first is Project 365. I will need to find the discipline to see this through for the entire year.

My other project is to post a weekly photo every Saturday featuring a heart. If you look around you will see hearts in the most unlikely places. Todays heart is from a gift wrapping ribbon.

If you'd like to join in and post your own heart photo please do. Let me know by email  (pinotgrisATgmailDOTcom) and I'll link to it.