Lately we have done a fair few baked goods in lieu of more materialistic "Christmas gifts" to our friends.
We made, and I've recently eaten:

Chewy chocolate cookies with white/dark chocolate chips.
Anzac biscuits with chocolate hairstripes
Anzac biscuits, no chocolate
Vanilla shortbread
Honey Jumbles (like gingerbread with a few more spices)
Vanilla cupcakes with pastry creme
Sultana raisin vanilla cupcakes
Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate pastry creme

Lots of sugar...ech...but nice.

Today (well, "christmas" day) we hit up a local bakery VERY early in the morning and got
*A croissant
*A cheese/bacon soft roll
*A chicken and vegetable pie (which was not so great)
and a coffee.
*Some long soft bread rolls.

For lunch we had a cheese and kumato roll each.

For dinner, the remainder of the fresh bread, some chilli tuna, spicy sardines, cucumber, houmos, tzatziki, water crackers, sliced ginger, avocado with lemon, smoked salmon, and kumato. Probably a few items I forgot there, but yeah that kind of thing, very nice/not heavy, refreshing and awesome.

Hot chocolate now.

- B.

Double chocolate firecracker.

I have found that I quite like something...
Have you ever toasted some bread for a sandwich, and then say wrapped the sandwich up for the next day and put it in the fridge?
When you eat it, it tastes like toast, just chewier instead of crunchy.
Having had to take in my lunch a few times during this security course thing
(22 hours just done over this weekend...yech), I've discovered that I quite like this...although I've had it before, I'd never really realised - and of course this will be completely spoiled if it gets made damp by certain ingredients like tomato, lettuce, beetroot (though these things could be taken seperately and added later if one were so inclinec)...but yeah, very nice, if you make a toasted cheese etc one night, and eat it the day after, at least I think so.

I had one of those today for lunch which was nice, minced lamb cooked like a hamburger, with oregano, rosemary, cumin, salt, and lime juice. Had that with some cheese and tomato paste in there.
Good shit.

Also had a pluot for breakfast, and some lamb pasta, and some chocolate along with a cup of tea when I got home.

Cruskits and black coffee

Grill Cheese and soup

..about four bar-b-q'd ribsfor lunch, and right now im almost finished with a mickey's forty ounce.

Tea, Chocolate.
Coffee earlier.
Leftover lamb pasta with a grilled cheese this morning.
Dinner...probably gonna make some dough, and throw together some tuna flatbreads.

Chocolate covered raisins.

Can u give me a recipe for this?

Yeah, all good.

Honey Jumbles:

60 grams of butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup golden syrup (honey instead or as well just maintain overall quantity)
Cook those for 10 minutes on low heat so they bond etc, in a pot.
Put the mixture in a bowl to cool a little.

Stir in 1 egg

Sift: 2 1/2 cups plain flour, 1/2 cup self raising flour, 1/2 tsp bi-carb, 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/2 tsp clove powder, 2 tsp ginger powder and/or ground ginger, 1tsp mixed spice - or just equivalent quantities of mace, cinnamon, nutmeg.

Stir that into your mixture so far.
Knead it all until it's no longer "sticky" that much.
I'd refrigerate after covering it up...probably more than an hour, overnight would be great as the spices will develope into it a bit better)

Make your shapes however you like onto a lightly greased tray.
Cook in a preheated oven at 175-180 (that's celcius) for 12-15 minutes, just keep an eye on them.

They're pretty good on their own, a little like gingerbread with a few changes.

You can make up an icing from a beaten egg white, 1 1/2 cups of icing sugar mixed in with 2 tsp plain flour. Some lemon juice and vanilla essence for flavour, cab sprinkle some cocoa or cinnamon on top too.


Tonight, I made my own flatbread again, having some tuna and sardines on there, see what else is left in the cupboard haha, day before payday here. Maybe a can 'o baked beans.