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25 June 2018
Planting roses with the vegies
I've been kind of busy here lately with family dropping by, looking after Jamie, winter cooking and baking, gardening and a few small c...
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6 June 2018
Monte Carlo biscuits
As promised, here is a recipe for an Australian biscuit called the Monte Carlo. I think they started selling Monte Carlos in the 1920s and ...
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26 March 2018
Home cooking
March, week 4 in The Simple Home This is the final week in our food and home cooking month. We've been discussing food shopping, sto...
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12 March 2018
Shopping for food
March, week 2 in The Simple Home This week we'll focus on shopping for food and I'm guessing that will mean vastly different thin...
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5 March 2018
A food revolution
March, week 1 in The Simple Home Going back to basics This is one of the most important chapters in The Simple Home as it deals wit...
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15 January 2018
Food shopping, organising recipes and menu plans
January, week 2 in The Simple Home This is another of those topics where there will be vast differences in the way all of us do things. ...
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27 November 2017
Homemade dog food
I've had quite a few readers ask about Gracie's food. What we feed our animals is important to me because I want them to have a goo...
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23 November 2017
Leftovers - corned beef hash
Using leftovers to create another meal has been part of my food management for as long as I can remember. One of our favourite meals is cor...
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20 November 2017
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Here at our place Mondays are the same as Thursdays, Thursdays the same as Sundays; each day we get up and usually know what we have to do....
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25 September 2017
A week of ordinary days
The past week has been lovely here. On Tuesday we celebrated Hanno's 77th birthday with the family over for dinner. Sunny and Jamie are...
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5 September 2017
A few days here ... in photos
Over the past few days our time has been spent in a steady, slow stream of work here in our home. Meals have been cooked, cleaning done, dr...
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1 September 2017
Weekend reading
We have wood sorrel growing in the dappled shade under our outdoor table in the vegetable garden. The leaves add a citric taste to salads....
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29 August 2017
Save money, fewer preservatives
One of the easy ways to cut back a bit on your grocery bill is to make some of the things you usually buy. We all know about laundry liqui...
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