Slow news day today. Pikelets

Slow news day today. The weather here to-day is overcast with a few showers.  And on top of the forty mm of rain in the previous twenty four hours plus the twenty-six mm last Friday it's just way beyond to wet to do anything outside.

A rainy day treat/comfort food for me anytime is pikelets. A favorite of mine from childhood (who doesn't have a 'favorite from childhood') when my mum would make them for us. I don't remember having them hot but I do remember them cold with thick butter and jam spread over them and then made into a little sandwiches.

Cooking, cooking, cooking

Eating, eating, eating.

I found the recipe on a website called Kidspot where there is a truck load of interesting stuff all related to um, er, kids of course.

This is a link to the recipe on their website and following is a copy and paste job.

Pikelets recipe

Serving Size:

Makes 20
Category:

Breakfast, Budget, Cakes and Baking, Kids cooking, Kids food, Lunch Box, Easy recipes, Snacks, Cake stall
Ingredients:
Gluten-free (see note below), nut-free

2 cups self-raising flour
¼ teaspoon salt (optional)
1/3 cup caster sugar
1 egg
1 cup (250mL) milk
1 tablespoon butter
Method:

    * Sift flour and salt, add sugar, drop unbeaten egg into the middle of the bowl and stir.
    * Slowly add enough milk to make a thick batter. Beat well until smooth.
    * Heat a non-stick pan over a medium heat, melt  teaspoon butter and drop heaped tablespoonfuls of mixture into the pan.
    * I cooked about 5 at a time. When bubbles appear on the surface, turn the pikelets (muttering and cursing and chasing them all over the pan) and allow to brown on the second side.
    * Transfer pikelets onto a plate and cover with a cloth while you finish cooking the remainder.


Notes:

    * Easy to pack in lunchboxes because you don't need to do anything else to them. Handy for afternoon tea, too.
    * I also make these for breakfast (on those infrequent 'perfect' mornings) as a change to regulation weet-bix or toast.
    * It can be a bit tricky getting the temperature right, I prefer to cook at a lower heat and potter round the kitchen doing other things while they cook slowly.

There you have it,

Cheers and happy pikeleting

Stewart.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. ~John F. Kennedy

Simon's Cat in 'The Box'

Anybody with a cat will relate to this. Have fun and cheers

Stewart

On your bike.

I already ride to work everyday as it is. I have three main reasons for this. The first being fitness, the second is I think paying over eight hundred dollars a year for car registration is an obscene money grab by our state government and thirdly is doing my little bit for our environment, ie:- reducing my oil burning, CO2 production.
An beside all that, there is a breaky on the morning at Art Gallery Park, Ruthven Street!



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Dear Stew,
 
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Cheers and happy cycling to work day

Stewart.

A flower a day for September #26. "No Idea".

 I have no idea what this plant is called and if you can enlighten me I appreciate it. (I'm guessing some sort of small leaf privet)

As you can see it is coming to the end of it's flowering period but when it was fully out, only a few days ago, it was spectacular.  Not overly popular around here and I'm guessing this is due to it's fairly short flowering period and eventual size.

It does have a light perfumed fragrance too, which is not over powering but pleasant when you are within it proximity 

Well there you have it for today, back with another tomorrow.

Cheers and happy gardening

Stewart.







You've got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~Steven D. Woodhull

My B.M. (D.) E.N. of weeding

 In the 'Beginning'
 This is my garlic patch, as you can tell. It seems that for the last 6 to 8 weeks anytime I had spare to work in the garden I was either feeling unwell or it's been raining and to wet to weed. But today the planets have aligned and allowed me to at least get the majority of the weeds away from my garlic.

 Some where around the 'middle' of the job.
Yep! what can I say? About half way and looking good.

'During'
I don't remember but this must have been last years potato patch and there were a few spuddies self sown. I didn't want them to grow any bigger so I harvested them and here is the result. Spuddies for nothing and your chips for free.

Then comes the 'end'
Mostly any way. It was a rough weeding and I'll need to return and give it a through weeding straight after I finish the next patch (see below)
  

Next
There is carrots, peas, radish and potatoes that need rescuing in there.
Plus more than enough room for a good planting of beans.
Busy, busy, busy.

There you have it the B.M .(D.) E.N. of weeding.
Cheers and happy weeding

Stewart 

A flower a day for September #26. "Yesterday Today and Tomorrow".

"Yesterday Today and Tomorrow", another September, spring classic.

Why say it when it's already been said so well before. Here is what  'The Queensland Gardening Pages'  have to say.