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My lovely new kitchen

June 29th 2009 03:35
old kitchen
yuck


my old kitchen is now a handful of ashes and and small pile of old junk.

new kitchen
shiny bright and lovely



my new kitchen is a place I love to be in, love to keep clean, a place where I feel whole. I didn't realise how depressed my old kitchen made me until I had my new kitchen installed.

The flouro lights make a difference, the abundant benchtop space makes a difference. The fact that the mice can't get onto my cupboards, just scamper and sneak next to my cupboards makes a difference.

Later today I will make my first batch of scones in my lovely kitchen and life will be as good as it can be. Thank you to you all, thanks to my brother who gave me his old kitchen to become my new kitchen.

Thank you to my mother who held my kitchen in her barn for so long, while I tried to organise someone to put it in. Thank you to Luke and ferret who delivered my kitchen. Thank you to Steve, who installed my kitchen, and to Mick and Trevor who did their bit too.

And a big thank you to my lovely husband Graham who helped install the kitchen, and who loves the kitchen too.


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Enjoy Your Life, It's Up to You

June 23rd 2009 02:56
We all have to get older. It is a simple fact of life. We are born, we live and we die. The way we live, the lives we lead all impact on how well we live. If we take care of ourselves, it can help us live a longer life, a better life. But there are no guarantees.

And even if you follow all of the rules, you can still fall victim to some of the common ailments that can plague us. Some people seem to cruise through life with barely a sniffle, others fall victim to everything going around. Whichever way it is for you, it is good to do your bit to help your body do the right thing for you.

And we all have different things that affect us as we approach middle age and beyond. Women have to guard against breast cancer, cervical cancer, as well as working to keep looking as good as they want to look.

Men have their own issues in older years. They don’t suffer quite the same issues as women relating to their looks, but they certainly have health issues. Prostate Cancer is a big one, as well as other forms of cancer that can happen to any of us.

The good news is that you can help yourself by eating particular foods. Soy, tofu and soy milk are all good, and so are yummier things like fruit, shellfish, oily fish, nuts and seeds. Eating a diet rich in these foods can help prevent or at least lessen problems with enlarged prostate and can also reduce the need for medications like Viagra and Cialis.

These foods can also help with sexual health in middle aged and older men. Just because you’re getting older, doesn’t mean you have to give up the finer things in life.
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New Kitchen is In!!!

June 23rd 2009 02:29
It's been twenty years I've lived in this house. Twenty long years of living with a kitchen I've hated.

I don't know the person who had this house built, but I sure know he was no style king. The kitchen that I have put up with, is about the worst you could imagine in a 70's kitchens built by a person who has no idea about what a kitchen really needs to make it an all right place to spend your cooking time.

The kitchen had inadequate cupboard space, no drawers, insufficient lighting. The benchtops were one and a half inch tiles and the cupboards that were there were an awful green. I like green, it's my favourite colour, but this green was revolting.

But I put up with this kitchen, because the property had other things that were good. The swimming pool, the dog kennels, the space, the neighbours being far enough away. But the kitchen!

But now, I am pleased to let you know I finally have a kitchen I can be proud of. I am happy to clean this kitchen, happy to be in this kitchen. And the good thing is, the cupboards can actually keep the damned mice out!

Absolute bliss. Just thought I'd let you know. Thank you for reading!
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I’ve been looking at a website http://www.ecookinggames.com, and it just looks like so much fun!! I wish I was a young girl again and then I could go to this site more often. I have to do the boring real life cooking and it is so much more fun to be doing all these amazing games instead.

I love food, and I love fun, so Cooking Games seems like the perfect combination. Cooking food for real, for people who munch and grunt gets so boring, but Food Games at this site are so cool


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Well, I did it, just like I said I would. Sweet mufins again, and so, so nice.

Wholemeal flour again, olive oil, milk, egg (duck), baking powder, nutmeg, salt (tiny bit), poached pear chopped up finely, chopped dates, and whatever it is I may have forgotten. I made a dozen and there are now nine left


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Savoury Muffins this time

June 8th 2009 01:38
We have only one left in the freezer. They were savoury, they were tasty, they made lunch or snacktime delish!

What was in them, I hear you ask. Well, that's the problem with being a creative (lazy) person. I remember they had the usual, flour, egg, salt, olive oil. There was cheese (cheddar and bourssin). Probably there was pepper, salt (may have been stock powder). I put in chopped tomatoes and mushrooms


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Health muffins

May 16th 2009 00:42
Would you believe I'm writing about muffins again!?

I made a new batch of muffins on Thursday, and they are so nice, and so healthy. I put in the usual flour (wholemeal), sugar, baking powder, milk, egg, olive oil. I added nectarines I'd poached, frozen and defrosted, and some dried fruit and nut mix I keep in the freezer for snacking on


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Foodleaf has mice too

May 1st 2009 05:51
I've brought this subject over from my other Orble blog, Light Within, because of course, the mice happen in the kitchen, which is where my food gets prepared.

I know to keep my things clean, more so now that I know there's little mousies around. It makes you value hot water once you realise the little critters may be walking on things. And of course once this kitchen get installed, then I might have cupboards that actually close properly, which would be nice. It might make it easier to shut stuff away from the little mousies


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Anyone for pork?

May 1st 2009 02:21
The current Swine Flu issue is certainly getting a lot of media attention. When you look at the whole thing sensibly though, is it really that scary?

There have only been I think 7 or 8 deaths confirmed to have been caused by Swine Flu. More people than that die every winter from flu in little Adelaide in South Australia. More die from car accidents in Adelaide in a year, and so on and so on


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Put some pork on your fork

April 17th 2009 06:34
Yesterday hubby came home from work, and the Adelaide Central Market, with lots of meaty things to put in the fridge. He bought some kind of flavoured sausages, some crocodile meat and two kilos of game pork.

The pork was some ridiculously low price, so it seems to be a great bargain. Today hubby sent me an email asking that I cook pork for tea tonight. I'll cook maybe 500 grams for the three of us for tea, and then all of the other meat can go in the freezer


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