3/52- Weekly stills

1. Late afternoon cuddles on the couch - such special moments x
2. Taken outside our local library- love the colourful knitted stockings on the bike racks
3. Its been a week of Apricots…..they look and taste so delicious! Ive stocked up and have an apricot tart in mind for these babies!
4. My little succulent family
5. Old building in near by town of Mathoura
6. A reminder of the scorching week had- CFA truck fuelling up at a local petrol station
7. I love this landscape. Photo taken on The Cobb Highway between Moama and Mathoura.
8. My aggies didn't take well to a week of 40 deg plus weather. The gorgeous cornflower blue firework balls add so much colour to the garden
9. Sorry- couldn't resist….Meet Mrs Watermelon head!!! And yes, she tastes yummy x
10. I found a new cafe in town- Johnny & Lyle- a must for all locals and anyone visiting Echuca.
11. And finally, to top off my week, I was thrilled to find my instagram photo made it to the Sunday Style magazine. You will have to excuse me for being excited….its my first time ever! You can find the recipe to this yummy Raspberry and Honeycomb ice cream here!

1/52- First Weekly Stills for the 2014!!!!

1. Glazing of the second ham…. my Mum's trusty recipe!
2. Starting the new year with some delicious homemade ice cream. See link here.
3. This weeks harvest of tomatoes…..they look too good to eat! Think we might have this recipe here from Catherine at Farmhouse Home's blog tonight….
4. Our New Year Eves afternoon tea party with the children-Chocolate mud cake and a table full of crumbs!
5. NYE Champagne on ice for the grown up's…..
6. Daily bouquet of flowers my daughter picks for me everyday. Thankfully the geranium has a never-ending supply of flowers for her to pick! Such happy colours….
7. Siblings playing happily on New Years Day…. a lovely sight for any parent x
8. A firework display of cornflower coloured aggies with a pretty pink crepe myrtle backdrop

Hope you have had a good start to 2014…..

See you soon, kx

Raspberry & Honeycomb Ice Cream

Summer has now officially hit us, which means for us lots of running around under the sprinkler, splashing in the blow up swimming pool, kids jumping on the trampoline with the sprinkler underneath, lazing under the cooler watching kids movies and …… 

ICE CREAM!!!

One of the perks of having children is that guilt free pleasure of serving up dollops of ice cream on cones to the kids and having a scoop or two for yourself. After all, one in, all in, I say!

Its a fun treat which we all look forward to each afternoon, and with this becoming a daily event, the best way to keep up the ice cream supply is to make it yourself. I am fortunate to have been given an ice cream machine a few years ago, so thankfully the most difficult part of the task is actually deciding which recipe to make.

With a few punnets of raspberry's and a craving for honeycomb, the decision was fairly easy to make.

Within an hour the ice cream was made and freezing its way to tummy heaven.

The recipe for the ice cream can be found here, and the honeycomb here.

Frozen raspberries can be used instead of fresh and a crushed up violet crumble bar instead of making the honeycomb. But trust me, the honeycomb is incredibly easy and takes all of ten minutes.

So now that I have rediscovered how easy it is to whip up this summery treat, I am getting excited about making some passionfruit ice cream with fruit off our vine, and some sorbet with fresh lemons from the tree. And don't even get me started on how to feed my chocolate addiction……

Have you a favourite ice cream flavour???

Until next time……kx