With the 9 week summer holiday break now officially begun I plan to take time out to try some new recipes for family lunches - all those sandwiches and salad rolls are great for easy and quick lunches through the school term, but now that we are no longer living to a daily timetable I have the freedom to play around with the lunch fare.
Today I made "Chinese chicken & vegetable rice paper rolls" with a simply scrummy lime & chilli dipping sauce! These are low fat and totally addictive, but best of all they require no cooking just soaking of the vermicelli noodles and the rice papers. I bought a bbq chicken at the supermarket and shredded the chicken breasts (also to save cooking) and the rest of the ingredients were raw vegetables and snow pea sprouts.
The dipping sauce was made from Sweet Chilli Sauce, Soy Sauce, grated lime rind, and lime juice.
Have you made these before? If you haven't, you should try them.
Blossom has finished this Bronwyn Hayes Christmas stitchery, and is now working on some colourful stitched ornaments for the tree. She took a break to read a book, though, and her head has not reappeared from behind it's cover yet!
Thank you for all your lovely thoughts about her lip and the new hairdo - she's nearly all better now, and wanted me to say, "thank you so much for your care!".
I've been sketching and fine-tuning one of my BOM designs for 2010...
...finishing a gorgeous new Shabby Roses design (I'll show you the whole thing on the 1st December)...
...and making some gifts!

With the never ending carousel of 'must-do/plan-now' projects during November I haven't had time to finish block 1 of the Robyn-Allen Waters BOM I started in September. I have blocks 2 & 3 waiting as well, but now that the school year is over I am taking advantage of little pockets of time to get block 1 finished. Today I watched the movie 'Valkyrie' with hubby and stitched the curtains to the left of the block - 100 minutes to stitch the red curtains. Small stitches are definitely time intensive!
Tonight I have some pattern writing to do, then I'll be all up to date with the must-do's and I can slow down and enjoy the want-to's.
I hope you too are finding time to catch up on things you make for sheer enjoyment, and are not wearing yourself out with all the 'have-to-make' projects for Christmas?
This year we have decided to do things very simply, with our eldest daughter (a mother of two boys) suggesting we forgo presents and give each other's family an experience instead. We are giving them a family pass to an African Safari Park for the day, complete with a supermarket gift voucher to purchase all they'll need to fill their picnic basket. They in turn are giving us the money to buy a family ticket to tour the Atherton Caves, just north of us. Both her family, and us here, will take photos of our family days out, and post them in an album to each other as a remembrance of each family's Christmas 'experience' gift. She's so clever to think of this!
Tonight I'm making Chicken Burgers with a spicy mustard dressing, so I'd best get about my business and marinate the meat...
Have a lovely evening (or morning!) wherever you are,
Hugs
Jenny
xxx
Today I made "Chinese chicken & vegetable rice paper rolls" with a simply scrummy lime & chilli dipping sauce! These are low fat and totally addictive, but best of all they require no cooking just soaking of the vermicelli noodles and the rice papers. I bought a bbq chicken at the supermarket and shredded the chicken breasts (also to save cooking) and the rest of the ingredients were raw vegetables and snow pea sprouts.
The dipping sauce was made from Sweet Chilli Sauce, Soy Sauce, grated lime rind, and lime juice.
Have you made these before? If you haven't, you should try them.
Thank you for all your lovely thoughts about her lip and the new hairdo - she's nearly all better now, and wanted me to say, "thank you so much for your care!".
I hope you too are finding time to catch up on things you make for sheer enjoyment, and are not wearing yourself out with all the 'have-to-make' projects for Christmas?
This year we have decided to do things very simply, with our eldest daughter (a mother of two boys) suggesting we forgo presents and give each other's family an experience instead. We are giving them a family pass to an African Safari Park for the day, complete with a supermarket gift voucher to purchase all they'll need to fill their picnic basket. They in turn are giving us the money to buy a family ticket to tour the Atherton Caves, just north of us. Both her family, and us here, will take photos of our family days out, and post them in an album to each other as a remembrance of each family's Christmas 'experience' gift. She's so clever to think of this!
Tonight I'm making Chicken Burgers with a spicy mustard dressing, so I'd best get about my business and marinate the meat...
Have a lovely evening (or morning!) wherever you are,
Hugs
Jenny
xxx