Thursday, December 22, 2011

TMX white bread, yummy!

This makes a very yummy, light, versatile loaf.  I use this as a base recipe for all the lunch scrolls i make.  It is so good my children like to eat it as just bread and butter, they don't want to spoil the flavour by adding a spread!

1 egg
20g olive oil
Approx 220g luke warm water
3 tsp instant dried yeast
500g white bread flour
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp salt

Zero scales.  Put olive oil and egg into TMX bowl then add enough lukewarm water to make the liquid up to 300g.  It will be around 220g depending on the size of your egg.

Add yeast.  Mix on 3 for 30 seconds.

Add flour, sugar and salt.  Slowly turn dial from closed lid position to 7 and mix just long enough for dough to begin to form.

Mix 2 mins on interval.  Rest for 1 minute.  Mix a further 2 mins on interval.

Shape into a ball, put in a lightly oiled bowl, cover with gladwrap and allow to rise for about 1 hour.  I normally sit my bowl in the oven unless i'm cooking something else at the time.


Turn out onto a floured surface and shape your loaf.  I normally make two balls and pop them into my loaf dish.


Allow to rise a further 30 mins then place into a cold oven.  Set the oven to 220C and cook until golden and when tapped the base sounds hollow.  Approx 40 mins.


If your children are anything like mine this loaf will be gone in the blink of an eye, yum!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Look What I Can Do!

Possum has started pulling himself up to standing.  Look out world!  He is still VERY wobbly so can't really be left, and he hasn't worked out how to get back down yet.  Cleaver boy!



Monday, December 19, 2011

Christmas Read Aloud

We visited the library a few days ago and I picked up The Kingfisher Book of Classic Christmas Stories.  What a beautiful book!  We are loving reading the stories each night before bed.  It is such a shame that it appears to be OOP because it is a book worth owning!

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Menu Plan 18 Dec





Inspired by Jo at Quirky Cooking I'm sharing my menu plans too.  Not nearly as creative or inspirational, but helps me keep my week on track and shop for what we need so it limits wastage!


Sunday
Breakfast - Fruit scones with jam (TMX butter & flour for mix)
Lunch - Crumbed fish & fruit platter
Dinner - Sausage sizzle

Monday
Breakfast - Cereal quick easy, another trip to the city
Lunch & Dinner - will pick up something in the city

Tuesday
Breakfast - TMX porridge & make TMX fruit loaf (EDC Hot Cross Bun recipe) to take on a playdate for afternoon tea
Lunch - Sandwiches
Dinner - Rissoles & TMX steamed veggies

Wednesday
Breakfast - TMX smoothies & toast
Lunch - Corn chips, salsa & fruit platter
Dinner - TMX spaghetti & meatballs AIO meal (new recipe for us)

Thursday
Breakfast - Cereal
Lunch - Sandwiches
Dinner - Tacos

Friday
Breakfast - Cereal, quick & easy, heading to my parents place for Christmas!  Won't be cooking until we get home.

Saturday
Christmas Day!

Sunday
Boxing Day!

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Last Swimming Lesson for 2011

Today Flossy & Bugsy had their last swimming lesson for 2011.  Chicky would normally participate too but she had broken out in hives from an unknown cause (possibly nuts) so she stayed out of the pool.

The children have all come such a long way this year.  Their confidence has grown and they are loving their lessons.  Their teacher has been unreal, knowing when to push their comfort zones and when to back  off too.

Flossy passed level 4 and will enrol in level 5 for next year.  Bugsy remains in level 3 which is fine.  Level 3 is a hard one and he only moved up this term.  Chicky has progressed from Kindy beginners into Kindy intermediate which has taken a long time but she is finally there and happy to get in the pool, a big change from the beginning of the year.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Cactus Flower

Yesterday afternoon the children announced that a small cactus in our garden was about to flower.  On closer inspection it sure was!  I hadn't even notice that it had a bud on it before they mentioned it, oops!

9.30pm


7am




Flossy stayed up as late as she could manage to try to see the bud open but it wasn't quite open at her bedtime.  She was afraid it was a one night only flower as Nana & Poppy have a cactus that flowers for one night only and you wouldn't want to miss it, stunning!  She was up early and headed straight outside to see if the flower was still alive.  To her delight it was still alive and looking even better than it did last night!
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