Belinda | The Lattimore Acre

Recipe Recommendation

I love recipe recommendations. Belinda (another Belinda) who I went to school with recommended another slice out of our high school Home Economics cookbook – Day to Day Cookery. She recommended the Quick Mix Slice. It is seriously the easiest thing I have ever cooked and also pretty delicious. Ben absolutely loved it (more than the Chocolate Slice). Here it is (Straight from the stained pages. I was relieved to hear that others Day to Day Cookery Books had seen better days…. missing covers and pages!) –

Enjoy and thanks Belinda xo

Linking up with Life Made Lovely Monday xo

Roast Chicken??

I planted some of our excess vegetable seedlings in some soil at the back of the vegetable garden. The zucchinis and pumpkins were doing really well until…….

Roast chicken anyone???

NOT feeling the love!!!!!!!

Cooling Down

It’s warming up in our neck of the woods. This is how Ben kept cool yesterday.

We raided the plastic cupboard for containers, the utensil draw for measuring cups and spoons and found the old china tea set. I also added a few drops of colouring to the water – oh the excitement when the colours changed!!!

This was just a lovely reminder that the experiences we make for children don’t need to be complicated…… simple is often best!

Old Fashioned Chocolate Slice

No this is not a Chocolate Brownie……. it’s good old fashioned Chocolate Slice that our Mum’s made us (it is soooo much nicer than a chocolate brownie!!). When we were out in Chinchilla last weekend someone at Tom’s party had baked Chocolate Slice. As I ate a piece childhood memories came flashing back.

MMmmmmm I love Chocolate Slice.

So this weekend the healthier version on myself had a little relapse. I made Chocolate Slice.

I found a recipe in my old school textbook (I think this book has seen better days – it is twenty-four years old).

Here is the recipe straight from the stained pages ….ewwww! I must have been one messy cook when I was learning!!!

It really is a delicious simple recipe. To make it a little healthier you could replace the white flour with wholemeal and the white sugar with rapadura.

Enjoy xo

1st Halloween

This was our first ever attempt at Halloween. Our neighborhood children seem to really enjoy the whole thing. Why wouldn’t they….. FREE LOLLIES!!

We had Trick-or-Treaters from 4.30pm. It was mostly boys and some of them were so focused on the lollies they forgot their manners. Most children came in great costumes but we did have the odd teenager in no costume with a shopping bag (shocking hey!!). Ben had the best time handing out the lollies and yelling out ‘Happy Halloween!”. He didn’t want to Trick-or-Treat….YAY! I turned our lights off and took down the decorations at Ben’s bedtime but this didn’t seem to stop the lollie hunters. To be honest I’m not sure if I am really that into Halloween…….I’m not convinced it is a celebration at all – maybe just a very large lollie hunt!! (I always knew this really but it’s nice to look at something fresh through the eyes of your child)

First Pumpkin

Halloween has never really been a major celebration in Australia…… well not for us anyhow. But last year we had so many Trick-Or-Treaters. So this year we thought we would do a little to join in. Ben and I bought our first pumpkins to carve.

I cut lids and opened them and thought ewwwwww really??!!!! I wasn’t expecting so much slop!! I also didn’t really have any idea of what we would carve. So I did what every good researcher does and ‘Googled’ it – Halloween carving templates and How to carve a pumpkin. I had everything I could possible need right on the computer screen – Thank you Mr Google!

Ben and Andrew picked a scarey design and I picked a more smiley one. I used a small stanely knife as I found that the easiest. This is what we ended up with (don’t look too closely!).

And in the dark…..

It was a bit of fun. Ben is excited to put them out tomorrow and hand out lollies to the Trick-Or-Treaters. So I think this is when I am supposed to say ‘Happy Halloween!’ (I’m a Newbie).

Linking up with Life Made Lovely Monday (I know this is my second link up but there is so many lovely things happening!)