Around here - Recipes

Around here it's School Holidays and the Autumn weather is so beautiful.  It's my favourite time of the year, that and Spring where it's a little cool in the mornings and evenings and beautiful days of 25-28 degrees.  Where we live we don't really get big seasonal changes like Autumn trees [only one in our neighbourhood on the main road] but the weather is glorious at this time of the year.

Given the kids are home for school holidays I thought I would do a round up of some recipes that will come in handy.

Home made biscuits that will fill your freezer.  I made this recipe 2 weeks ago and put half in the freezer and bakked the other half the recipe.  I use a sheet of alfoil and then place a piece of baking paper on top and then flatten the dough into a rectangle and fold it up like a parcel then put it in a big zip lock back with the instructions for the oven and cooking time on the front.  That way you only make one mess in the kitchen with the bowls and when you want to make another batch of biscuites just thaw it out and cook them.  You can put any thing on top, chocolate chips, sprinkles or make jam drops which I did all three last time.  I then put them in containers in the freezer for school lunches and afternoon tea.

The easiest bread roll recipe to make for lunches. They are soft like a Bakers Delight Bap roll.  Just start 3 hours before you want to eat them.

If you want to whip up some Rustic Olive Oil Crackers to have with some dip these are super quick, super easy and super cheap and if you stick them all in a glass jar standing up on your platter they also look super fancy.

These Raspberry Lemon Muffins are amazing and super easy.

These home made Dumplings we first made in 2014 are amazing.  This is usually a holiday treat we make together and enjoy.   This recipe is from Celia's blog and she is the Sourdough baking queen also.  We have already decided we are making these next week.  Don't you love how little my kids were when we first made these....the next morning the kids marched around the kitchen with home made signs demanding we have them for breakfast because they were so good. They made signs and everything.  I still remember them doing it now and it makes me laugh.  Such good memories.

This Chicken & Leek Pie recipe mixture can also be used in crepes as well.  You can make a large family pie or individual pies.  You can also add frozen peas and carrots or corn to the recipe to make it a chicken and veggie pie recipe.  This recipe is super simple and delicious.

Home made pizza base recipe.

One thing I try to do when I link to recipes on other people's blogs is write them out on here too because I often refer to this blog for recipes.  Unfortunately as some of my older posts only has the link to the blog which no longer exists means some of my links don't have recipes anymore.  That's why I love writing them out here so I have them forever.

I hope you try a few of these recipes over the school holidays as we will be doing so.

In light of my renewed excitement in the veggie patch I got out our photo book from 2010 at our previous house where I started with two square patches.  We had an abundance of food from those two little patches and my first time having a go at growing veggies.  Sienna used to walk out into the garden and pick her lettuce leaves for her sandwiches for kindy.  She loved grated carrot, lettuce and I think from memory jam.  This was Easter 2010 and that little garden brought me so much joy.