Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2012

A Weekend of Beach and Bicci's

Being rather busy all last week and not having a camera I passed the responsibility of blog photos over to Saz. She came up trumps ~ as usual ~ and emailed me the following photos. I hope you enjoy them

A view of our beautiful Kingston beachfront on an equally beautiful Pacific summer's day

Aatuti (little rock fish) swimming unconcernedly in the lagoon with Duane and Saz and they're snorkelling

Duane on the reef that runs along the outside of the lagoon, thereby keeping all things nasty well away and out to sea

...another snapshot of Duane (remembering it's Saz's camera) enjoying the peace of the Pacific

...and in the water scaring away the innocent marine life!

Later that same afternoon Saz had a brainwave. She would bake my very favourite biccis/cookies. What a pearl of an idea

Here's the recipe, beautifully presented as all her work is

Biccis/cookies with half of them cooked and almost ready for me

Loading up the trays and ensuring that there'll be enough for the three of us!

Mixing the dough and generally teasing us as the smells assault our little noses

A closeup of the beautiful bouquet of flowers that she brought to Flagstaff

Gifts ~ bouquet of flowers, porpieh, biccis/cookies, stawberries etc. Love you Saz

What an absolutely wonderful way to spend a weekend.

Then Duane got in on the act and made us pikelets with porpieh jelly and cream. Nom Nom Nom. Missing you Chel!

Finally a photograph of the setting sun sending the last glorious rays across Kingston.

Monday, August 22, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE OLIVE .. Hip Hip Hooray

Wow! Naomi has been here a whole year. She's been running the Olive a whole year. Absolutely EVERYONE knows her. It's as if she's been here forever. Now, one wonders, is that a good thing or does that mean.......

Hey well done Naomi. Here she is with a fresh batch of florentines, just out of the oven. One of them was rude enough to say that my timing is perfect. No, not one of the florentines, one of the three Olivettes. They're ~ yes, the florentines ~ are just ready for presentation on the counter and I turn up. Hah. That my friends, is a talent!

A photo of Sharyn and Naomi both trying desperately to look angelic. S'not woikin goils!