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

52/52 Weekly Stills- Wrapping up 2013……

1. Christmas Eve excitement
2. Christmas lanterns in the garden
3. Oh, where to start first……
4. A favourite Xmas decoration…been dropped, broken and lovingly repaired.
5. A boy and his dog
6.  Overly loved up little friends- Kaloo & Kaloo two!
7. Pile of towels at back door waiting for the spontaneous swim in blow up pool
8. Passionfruit growing on our vine
9. Our teeny tiny (yet productive) veggie patch
10. A pretty 'pop up' plant found in our garden- Im guessing it's a noxious weed because they keep popping up everywhere. This one got away from me but Im glad…the flowers are so pretty and the colour so festive
11. The gorgeous mix of Aggies and clusters of old white roses
12. Watch me grow- I have no idea what this is…Any ideas? Ornamental Pomagrante or persimmon perhaps???

Hope you had a lovely Christmas and enjoying this festive period……kx