04.05.10 - '52 things' round up

A quiet house, all boys at work or school.
Chickens fed, dog lying in the sun, the cat - somewhere.
Washing machine chewing the cud, radio singing to itself,
Me having a quick mug of tea - whilst I do the latest round up of recipes so far...........

24. - Buttermilk bread - rather like a huge non-sweet scone which we had for breakfast on Sunday

25  - Apricot muffins - this one I made for last week's' knit n knatter' and it went down very well, I ended up emailing out the recipe a number of times. They were really quick to make and even quicker to eat.........

The recipe comes from an Australian cook book where they use a mix of cups and grams. Although the Americans use cups in their cooking - they are a completely different size to the Australian ones!
I grew up in a metricated system, I now live in an imperial/metric mix with an imperial weighing scale using Australian and American cookbooks - it's a wonder any of my cooking comes out ok!

Any way - Apricot Muffins (In ounces and Australian cups and grams!!)

8oz/2 cups plain flour
1 tblspn baking powder
1/4 tspn mixed spice or ground nutmeg
40z/1 cup chopped dried apricots
2oz/ 1/2 cup soft brown sugar
2oz/ 1/2 cup muesli
1 tspn grated orange ridge
4 1/2oz /125 gm butter - melted
6floz/ 3/4 cup milk
1 egg - lightly beaten

Pre heat oven to 210 deg c (190C gas/ 410 Deg F)

1. Grease a 12 hole muffin tin with oil or butter
2. sift flour, baking powder and spices into large bowl
3. add chopped apricots, sugar, muesli and orange rind
4. make a well in the centre
5. add combined melted butter, milk and egg all at once
6. mix lightly until just combine - mixture should look quite lumpy
7. spoon into prepared tin
8. bake 20 - 25 minutes or until golden.

Sadly no pictures, got eaten instead..........

But will leave you with a picture of our first 'harvests'. 

Micro salad (only coz I couldn't wait for them to grow bigger!)

The sweetest radish with a mighty bite that we've ever grown.

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After yesterday's ride, when came home the boys were ravenous - and only the promise of pizza and chips would assuage their hunger. They scampered off to shower as I made pizza, chips and salad.

Aah, yum.

Hope you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend - here's looking forward to the next one!