My garden - Open Slather



I haven't used You Tube much, only to watch 'how to' stuff and finding things for Izzy to watch. She's getting pretty handy with the mouse now, clicking and dragging, the computer is getting a useful babysitting tool activity to keep her busy, especially the games on the ABC4kids site.

While Izzy went for a drive with Brett yesterday, I grabbed my camera and went outside for a walk in my garden. This is the resulting video, my first uploaded and shared video on You Tube!! 

It's allowed to be a bit crappy and rough as guts being my first. That's what I keep telling myself,  that's my excuse, and that's what I'm stickin' to! Watch as I walk you around my garden (in a totally daggy way), and pop my vlog(inity) cherry.



Jewish Coffee Cake

This cake has nothing to do with coffee, apart from the fact that you may eat too much while drinking one.

I've been mulling over this cake for a while, I have it in one of my tattered books and always overlooked it. The recipe I had called for a packet vanilla cake mix and an instant pudding pack, which I didn't have, so I went to my good friend Google. The recipe I found was completely different, and when I saw the mouth watering photo, I was determined to make it.

Again ingredients I didn't have....sour cream and walnuts. I'm always one for substituting and experimenting, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Instead of sour cream, I used the three quarters of a cup of cream I had in the fridge with a teaspoon of lemon juice in it, and added some yoghurt to make up the cup. I used choc chips instead of walnuts, and didn't do the final layer on top, just the melted butter. It worked, the possibilities of that middle layer are endless, however I will have to try the recipe as it is one of these days.

Jewish Coffee Cake

1/2 cup butter                                  1 cup sour cream

1 cup sugar                                     1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs                                             1 cup chopped walnuts

2 cups flour                                     1/2 icing sugar

1 teaspoon bi carb soda                2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon baking powder            2 tablespoon melted butter

Preheat oven to 175. Grease and flour a 22 cm tin.

Cream together the sugar, butter and eggs until smooth. Add the flour, bi carb and baking powder and beat. Lastly, mix in the sour cream and vanilla.

Mix together the nuts, icing sugar and cinnamon.

Spread half the cake mix into the cake tin. Sprinkle most of the nut mix over, then top with the remaining cake mix. 

Top with the remaining nut mix and spread the melted butter over.

Bake for 1 hour, until the top springs back lightly.



My ever faithful cooking companion

  

A poppy and some pink

  

Angel Face

Izzys' playgroup kindy had a trash n treasure day on Sunday. We headed straight for the face painting as soon as we arrived to avoid the line up. Her only request when asked what she wanted, was purple and princess. Turns out, I should have had a look around first, I missed out on a $5 box full of Toy Story stuff, including a Buzz and Woody. I felt like I had failed my Toy Story lovin' little girl. I had the box in my sights, and moments before I bent down to pick it up, a lovely woman swooped it up in her arms. Feck! Later I felt annoyed with Brett, who should have grabbed it when he was looking around, while I waited at the face painting, bloody idiot. Too busy talking shit with other dads, not a metre from the bargain box. Why does he have to be so useless?!!! 

To photos of a different angel face. The roses are starting to flower, there is beauty emerging everywhere in the garden. I love it! You're gonna see lots of flower photos from me for a while!

Angel Face

This one was taken today a couple days after the first three, the  rose has opened up a  bit