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From the Kitchen

Recently 4 people from our church celebrated birthdays so I finally had a go at making a rainbow cake. I did use a vanilla cake mix and just added the colours. I made the lemon butter cream icing from scratch. The white outside makes the bright inside all the more exciting for people to cut into.

The kids have taken a night each for cooking. Katya has taken on the 'pasta' chef role and this is the second time she has made our pasta from scratch. Love that we can use eggs from our hens (Dotti, Daisy & Firey) and I like that we can make it with wholemeal flour or stoneground flour to make it a little more natural than store bough stuff. As well as the pasta the kids have made meatballs, spag bol, baked potatoes and vegetable slice. Alicia is doing food technology at the Hilton through school at the moment and is loving what she learned. She made a pizza last week - blue cheese, purple onions and smoked chicken - the chef was surprised at her choices. She's loved blue cheese since she was just over 1!
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Janine said…
wow that cake look fantastic....I bet all who ate it loved it and what a lovely idea to make it. Now pasta from scratch is another thing I have not done, maybe that needs to be another challenge I set myself. However Mike is doing an egg free diet at the moment, so that may have to go on the back burner for a bit.

Wow blue cheese is something I am not a fan of, so I am always impressed when a young person will eat it, and er pizza toppings sounded yummy, other than the blue cheese lol
8:42 am
Mrs Frizz said…
I so DO NOT do blue cheesey things ... ewwwwwwwwwwhhhhhh ... but wowser, your daughter's tastebuds at 1 ... hmmmmmmmmm ...

The pasta machine looks interesting - have never used one of them before.
7:29 pm
Penny said…
My kids love making pasta too. :) And blue cheese! I must make some gnocci with blue cheese sauce.
12:37 pm
Jenny said…
That cake looks amazing! Your children are so good doing some of the cooking
9:29 pm
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