Easter in Pictures

The Easter Bunny came to visit

My youngest brother's hoard from the Royal Easter Show


Baking Easter Cookies

Lamb on the BBQ for lunch



Easter Cookies for dessert

Happy Easter everyone!

Carne Asada and Mug Cake

DINNER

A traditional Mexican BBQ. We were given this BBQ hotplate for the stove by the Parents in Law.

All the toppings ready to go. In the back, a tortillero - a Mexican tortilla warmer. Tomato salsa fresca, white onion, guacamole, coriander, lime, and special chilli sauce.

Put it all together and eat!

And then...

DESSERT

Chocolate Chip Mug Cakes. Thanks to Michi Girl for her recipe, which seems to be successful even though I didn't have cocoa or a microwave.

Back in the Kitchen

It has been quite a while since I have written about anything food-related. In fact, many of my new followers wouldn't even know about Experimental Cooking Night - a weekly event where I pull out an as-yet untried recipe and see if it is worthy of either repetition (if it is from a cookbook we own) or of being added to my personal only-the-best-of-the-best cookbook, if it is a cutting from a magazine or similar.

So, seeing as I received a few natty little gadgets over the Christmas/Birthday season (see: cornish blue mortar and pestle, garlic grater, ceramic juicer, giant mother of a chopping board) I decided to pull out the old apron and do some experimenting.

It's a Jamie Oliver recipe I'm whipping up here - from his Cook With Jamie book. I've made a couple of things from this book so far, as has the man, and we've been quite pleased with the results. This pork is especially delicious. We serve it with a spanish rice (with beans, roasted capsicum, onion and oregano) and corn on the cob. Yummy.