As promised on the Facebook page here are the recipes used for lunchbox cooking this week:
Quick Chocolate Cake
3 tblsp Butter
1 cup SR Flour
1/2 cup Milk
2 Eggs
2 tblsp Cocoa
1 Cup Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
Melt the butter.
Put all other ingredients into a large bowl.
Pour melted butter over.
Beat well.
Cook in a moderate oven for 25 – 30 minutes.
(I cooked this in a fanforced oven – in a loaf tin – and it did take longer than the above time).
Country Fruit Slice
1 cup SR Flour
1 cup Coconut
3/4 cup Mixed Fruit
115g Margarine
1 Egg
Melt margarine.
Pour into egg mixture.
Add dry ingredients.
Mix well.
Pour into a greased slice pan.
Cook for 30 minutes in a moderate oven.
Dust with icing sugar when cold.
Just the other day I went into Howard’s Storage World in the city – Hobart.
Oh I could so spend a fortune in that place!
Found a dish drainer that is the bomb!
Mind you if anyone spent $199 on a dish drainer they must have gold to go in it, or more money than cents!
But it is a nice drainer, and one that wouldn’t leave a lot of water on the drainer side of the sink.
And that’s because it has its own tray that collects the water and a spout to let it flow back into the sink!
I love it!
But I do not love the price tag.. and must remember that it will not go with my kitchen.
There are so many great products in that store!
I’ll be having a few trips in there I do think!
Especially for the computer/desk nook!
And oh probably for the laundry set out too!
**Oh best make it know that this post is not sponsored by Howard’s Storage World – but in fact
my own thoughts of the shop.**
My 16-year-old son was with me and I could tell that he was getting quite bored and fed up with me
cooing over what seemed like useless things or junk to him!
I guess he will realise how these items can be of some use to him one day in his own home.
The actual purpose of my trip there has still not been finalised as I cannot find a place in Hobart that
has the item I want… – a hanging letter organiser/mail holder .
Or I guess you can even get magazine holders that do the same thing I want and you can attach them to the wall.
I want one or two of these to put up on the wall in the nook for the children’s notes etc for school.
Having one of those will free up a cupboard top for something else!!
If you know of where I can get this item in Australia, please let me know in the comments area!!
So I guess we all some kind of addictions that we live with in our lives.
Mine just happens to be pens!
When my children were smaller, I was always checking, chopping, changing their car seats and prams…think I spent a small fortune on those must haves!
A lot of family and friends used to say to me that they’d be rich should they have $1 for every car seat and pram I went through!!
Hmm with seven children I guess they may have had a few dollars but not be rich!!
And then it was mobile phones!!
But now I have found my true love in the phone area and won’t be changing for a while… ( love my iPhone)!
So this newish addiction/fetish I have is somewhat cheaper than my older ones.
As pens aren’t that expensive and are very easy to store.. Unlike prams and car seats!!
Nothing like having a beautiful pen to write with.
One that just glides across the paper… Ahhhh!!
I like stationary too and have a small supply of that as well, but not as much as the amount of pens that are in my three storage boxes at my desk…
My faves at the moment are the Papermate Inkjoy…
Love love them…
I have a stash that is for no one else to use.. So they are kind of hidden!!!!
Hmm do you have an addiction that you want to share???
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