Master Chefs...!

So it’s been over a week since Uma Thermies arrival and I am still loving her...! I went two days in a row without using her, due to being out all day one day and then out for dinner with friends the next...and I was having huge withdrawals! So this morning I whipped up a batch of these Apple and Cinnamon Scrolls. They were super easy to make and they taste pretty good too (even though they look a bit dodgy)! I think next time I need to roll the dough out a bit thinner as I used my Joseph Joseph rolling pin with the 6mm guide (as I thought 4mm was too thin), but the recipe said to roll the dough to 5mm thickness...I think thinner would have been better. But we live and learn!

Flashback to the weekend when we had our gorgeous friends and their beautiful bubbies over for lunch. We had a BBQ and I made a potato salad (by hand...!) so Uma didn’t have to do much work for this lunch. But I did make cheesy crackers (as per my last blog) and this Capsicum and Sun-dried Tomato Dip which was pretty tasty...even the kids were eating it up! 

K and I made Beef Stroganoff and mashed potato for dinner on Monday (both from The Basic Cookbook using the guided recipes). As I’ve mentioned before I’m not a huge meat eater so I found the stroganoff too meaty and mostly just ate the mashed potato, but K loves his meat so he really liked the stroganoff, and even went back for seconds! We also made the TMX meat stock paste which we used for the stroganoff, so now I’ve got the vegie stock and the meat stock in the fridge...just the chicken stock left and I’ll have the trifecta!

As if he doesn’t already spoil me enough, my beautiful K surprised me with a special delivery from the tm shop - a gorgeous wooden slider for Uma Thermie to sit on (it’s very bad to drag them as it can damage the scales so these sliders make it super easy to move the Thermie around the bench), a spatula, and a blade brush. I am a very lucky girl!