baking...

so what a lovely weekend we have had in our house, baking, baking and more baking... first up we started our friday evening with a quick supermarket trip to get some stuff to make macarons (by that i mean donna hay's macarons in a box - awesome)... instead of the ganache that comes with them, we made our own, RED SKIN ganache...

here are 2 of our red skin macarons

so that was friday...

saturday was the first saturday in ages that hubby didn't have to work, and the weather was awful, so we spent the morning visiting his grandparents at their farm, while we were there, i was flicking through magazines and found some great recipes to try, so i added all the ingredients to shop shop on my iPhone, and we stopped in at the supermarket again on our way home to get everything plus our weeks worth of groceries (i only like grocery shopping once a week)...

so once home, with the groceries away and the rain falling, a bit of couch time was in order while elliot had a bit of nap... so after her sleep, she was ready to go, my little masterchef, because i told her we were making smarties cookies... so doing a few things at once, we made smartie cookies, sausage rolls and feta & sundried tomato tarts, all very delicious, cookies are already almost gone, but have put the other food in the freezer, all portioned out for lunches...

feta and sundried tomato tarts

 

sausage rolls

 

 

GIANT smaries cookies

 

 

and as we were spending a quit night in, what better dinner than home made pizza...

 

 



 

 

but the thing i was looking forward to making the most was some cheese twists with puff pastry, but ran out of time (and sunday was too busy), thought i would make them today, forgetting i had to work, oh well, there's always next weekend...