Cook(e) love

Damien has been made redundant so now he has time to live up to his name in our beautiful new kitchen...

Delicious Egg & Bacon Pie from my wonderful Stephanie Alexander cookbook 'The Cook's Companion'. And it is so much nicer with real home-made shortcrust pastry and home-grown free range eggs from our happy hens.

The eggs will be in short supply soon as today is the equinox so it is downhill from here for daylight hours and so eggs laid from our motley bunch of girls - they need at least 12 hours of daylight per day to spit one out.

Damien also needs 12 hours of light a day to get through the list of jobs around the house... painting painting painting!

Mmmm I wonder what's for dinner tomorrow night?

Beautiful boy and his toys

Hay season done and dusted again

Damien loves hay season!

Vasse Felix

Pulled a cork on a wine in the 'do not drink' rack tonight because Damien thinks our 'cellared' wine may be stuffed.

Turns out he chose a 10 yr old wine called Vasse Felix and it is magnificent! Shit we should put it back in the bottle for a special occasion!! So now we are trying to justify why we are drinking such a beautiful bottle of wine on a work night for no important reason.

Maybe because we are back at work and need cheering up? Maybe celebrating our 9 months overdue extension? Maybe our big bike ride tonight which nearly killed me? Maybe because Damo and I met the year it was made (he tried to convince me it was 10 years today!)? Maybe because I was born the year the winery was established?

No... we are celebrating the birth of my client's baby son FELIX last year!

xxx

Glimpses of my kitchen

The kitchen cabinets are in and the bench-tops are 5 days off. It's getting exciting! I'm moving stuff in!!