Cooking music

I love this guy! He's got a really unique sound, and I can't get enough! Do yourself a favour and have a listen if you don't know him already. 

His song 'Candy' has to be one of my favorites - perfect cooking music!

Food for the belly

It's been positivly freezing here today! My iphone tells me it's currently 3 degrees but the 'real feel' is -4 degrees. Yup, that sounds about right! 

Unfortunatley I couldn't stay indoors all day, so by the time work was done I was itching to get some more warm winter food on the go. After a quick trip to the supermarket to get ingredients, I then fed the chooks and ducks and ran inside to the warmth and comfort of my good old slippers!

Righto, ready to start!

I decided to give pies a go for the first time - meat for the kids and potato & leek for me.

Win! My daughter Ryleah loved the meat pies, and the potato & leek was delicious! Almost like a thick soup in a pie! What more could you want when it's hailing outside?

Winter cooking

Winter is always a great time to cook those beautiful hearty foods that make you feel all cozy inside. Casseroles, soups, pastas, yum! I love seeing all those lovely food blogs with the awesome photos of food in all the stages of cooking. I often think I would like to have a go at that, but usually I forget to take pics, or the photos turn out crap due to me not owning swanky flashes for indoor/not natural lighting settings. Plus everyone seems to own awesome crockery and have a really cool benchtop to create the perfect scene. I have the daggiest laminex benchtops around! Well I gave it a crack again yesterday and I don't hate the photos so here we go. (BTW, I'm not going all flash with ingredients or instructions, so don't expect too much!)

Ryleah's chocolate walnut brownies

I think she did pretty good! And they taste delicious! 

 Pumpkin soup

Nothing better than a nice hot bowl of soup on a freezing night like tonight. For some really ace photos and food ideas to get your mouth watering, pop over to Whole Larder Love, a beautiful blog by my hunter gatherer cooking photographer friend Rohan. What an excellent mix of talents to have!