Books and Bikkies

On Friday morning we took the kids to the book fair held annually at Northcote College. As always, there were more books we wanted than there was money to spend on them...especially for the girls, who are not so discerning in their choices. But we came away with a good selection, and on top of all the kids books (admittedly, quite a few of those were mine...), the girls each chose a cookbook while they were stuck waiting in the hall full of grown ups books.

So, the rest of Friday was spent reading...even at my dad's for dinner , James was unable to put down her Paul Jennings find, and I was stuck on Nancy Drew, unable to stop reading until Nancy had solved The Sign of the Twisted Candles. Sometimes I think I was supposed to stop growing somewhere around age 12. Maybe mentally, I did. I love young adult fiction. It's so easy and fun and full of possibility.

Anyway, on Saturday James was looking for something else to do, so she chose a recipe from her new book...based on the ingredients available in my cupboards. And thus we made 'Monte Creams'...otherwise known as 'Monte Carlos', I believe.

These consist of two coconutty biscuits sandwiched together with raspberry jam and a fluffy, cream-like icing sugar/butter/milk mix. Our first few biscuits were rather large, so it's kind of like eating 4 biscuits at once. They looked a bit like scones with jam and cream...scone sandwiches...which is not to say they looked bad; on the contrary...I know I seem to be easy to please when it comes to the visual side of baking...but these babies looked pretty sensational. James is turning out to be a talented baker ... and she looks pretty cute when she's tasting her bikkies, too!

 

Tomorrow is James' first day at her holiday drama class....I reckon she's going to fit in just fine!

xx

Harriet

Workin' 9 til 5

Well actually more like 8 til 4.30, but same dif.

Tomorrow will be the last day of my first official week back at work full time and i am exhausted!! Who knew you office folk worked so hard??

I have been meaning to post about my activities over the weekend but every night i plonk myself down on the couch and am subsequently too lazy to move- slack!

But anyway, better late than never right?

For starters on Friday afternoon this

transformed into this:

and we went to ballet - the last class i'll be able to attend for a while (sob)

We tried to catch some Juno smiles on camera:

 Fat chance with the big sister around....  

On Saturday I went to the Langham with my friends for high tea, which was amazing and highly photo worthy (but of course i forgot my camera!!!) however this shot from the web gives you some idea...

It was so so good, i ate till i felt sick and then i ate some more. There were rum and raisin scones, dainty sandwiches, friands and fruit tarts - it was all exquisitely presented. My friend Liz works at the Langham and organised a great table and we got lots of special attention- fun, fun, fun!

On Sunday, the nerves kicked in and i was a bit anxty thinking about leaving my girls and heading off to work the next day, so.... I baked !!!

Chocolate chippies -a perfect comfort cookie. As is always the way with me and my sister, i had to get creative with the ingredients- drop a few here, add a few there, but the end result was pretty damn good if i do say so myself. So nice to eat on Monday when i was freaking out at my desk....

The rest of the weekend was spent dodging the disgusting weather, watching a lot of Lion King and Toy Story and getting the whole family ready for a full on working week.... by the end of it we were pooped.....

I can't believe that the weekend is about to roll around again already, sure am hoping i get a sleep in

Kate x

ps: Check out the Langham site, if you feel like heading out for a bit of High tea- i recommend it xx