Fruit Cones - Toddler Friendly Food

Waffle Cones filled with fruit and topped with Blueberry Sauce!

Yes Please!

DIY Earring Holder.

I have lots of dangly earring's that I found very hard to store.

Here is a super cute way to store Earring's that's practical, looks great, easy to make and cheap! Total cost for me was $5!



You will need:
A Frame (size of your choice) without glass that has a back, It can't just be the empty frame.
Piece of Shade Cloth or Mesh Fabric cut to size.

Remove the back from the frame and lay the cloth over the frame allowing it to overhang the sides, then place the frame back onto the fabric pulling the fabric tight and it slips into place.

Trim the excess fabric and pin frame back into place...















Done! Now your ready to hang your frame...

Cute!

Spicy Sweet Potato and Roast Capsicum Dip

Ingredients:
1 LARGE Sweet Potato
1 LARGE Capsicum
1 Clove Garlic chopped fine or crushed.
Pinch Slat
Cracked Pepper
1/2 a Fresh chilli
2 Tbs Balsamic
2 Tbs Olive Oil
Water


Pre heat your oven to 200 degrees.

Chop sweet potato and Capsicum and bake in the oven for aprox 40min or until sweet potatoes are tender and capsicums blistered.

Once cooked Add Capsicum to food processor and blend followed by the Sweet potato and Blend until smooth.

Add all remaining ingredients and mix very well... Use the water to thin the dip to the desired consistency.

Curried Egg's

Ingredients:
4 Eggs
Pinch Salt
1 - 2 Tbs Curry Powder
2 Tbs (aprox) Mayonnaise


Place eggs in a saucepan filled with cold water, put to boil on 'High' for 14 minuets.

Once Egg's are cooked, peel and smash with a fork

Once you have smashed the eggs, add Mayo, salt and Curry powder and mix well.

Serve!

Above: Curry Egg served on Sourdough.

Chickpea Burgers

Ingredients:
1-2 Garlic Cloves minced/finally chopped
1Tbs Curry Paste
1 Carrot Peeled and grated
1 Can Chickpeas (drained and washed)
45g Cashews
40g Fresh Bread Crumbs
Flour

Blend Cashews, set aside.
Cook Garlic and Curry for 1 minuet.
Transfer to food processor and add Carrot, Chickpeas. Blend.
Add Breadcrumbs and Cashews and mix well.

Make patties with your hands and roll in flour.

Cook on a oiled pan until both sides are lightly browned.

Serve with Spinach, Natural Yoghurt or Sour Cream. We had ours in Sour Dough buns -

Blueberry Sauce

This Blueberry Sauce is great for topping Ice Cream or mixing in Yoghurt!


2 cups fresh blueberries
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon Lime juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Blend Blueberries and add sugar, Salt and lime Juice.

Bring to a boil and boil for aprox 1 minuet.

Add Vanilla...

Chill.

Easy!

Roasted Chickpea's

These have beautiful Crunchy shells, almost like a chip? Great snack.

Ingredients:

• Aprox 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 1/2  Tbs Cajun Spice.
• 1 teaspoon Garlic powder
• 1 pinch Sea Salt
• 1 pinch ground Black Pepper
• 1 can chickpeas, rinsed, drained and dried. 
• (You can be creative and use any spice/combination you like)

Pre heat your oven to 175 Degrees.

In a bowl mix Olive Oil and Spices together.

Add chickpeas, mix and place chickpeas on a lined oven tray, bake for aprox a hour ot until chickpeas have a crunchy shell.

Serve Warm.

Homemade Dinner Rolls

Lots of you have been asking for my dinner roll recipe - As promised here it is!

Ingredients: 

1C plus 2 Tbsp warm water

1/3 C oil

1 1/2 Tbsp yeast

1/4 C sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 egg

3 1/2 C flour

Heat oven to 210 degrees.

In your food processor or bowl combine the water, oil, yeast and sugar and allow it to rest for 15 minutes.  

Using your food processor or muscles/wooden spoon mix in the salt, egg and flour. 

Knead until well incorporated and dough is soft and smooth. (Just a few minutes)

Form dough into 12 balls and then place in a  lighty greased ( i use butter) 9 x 13 pan and allow to rest for 10 minutes so it starts to bulk.

Bake for 10 minutes at 210 degrees or until golden brown...

Easy!

Vegetable Curry Bake (EASY!)

Ingredients:
Head of Broccoli
Quarter Head Cauliflower
3 - 4 Medium Potatoes
Half a Onlion
4 Cloves Garlic - peeled
2 Large Carrots
1 - 2 Chicken Breasts (Optional)
2 Tbs Curry Powder
300 - 400mls Cream

Pre heat oven to 190.

Chop all Vegetables and optional Chicken and put them in a oven proof dish.

Add Cream and Curry powder, mix...

Bake for aprox a Hour until all Vegetables are soft when poked.

Learning to Crochet Flowers.

I decided I wanted to learn how to make crochet flowers...

Following this tutorial I was able to come up with some creations that most definitely resembled a flower!

Although I still need to practice as my flowers are a little shabby, its a great fun creating woollen flowers.

Above: Two Crochet Flowers made by myself...Far from perfect. 

Zucchini Hot Chips - Baked - Kid friendly food!

Zucchini Hot Chips Ingredients:
1 -  2 Zucchini's depending on size.
Dried Bread Crumbs Aprox 2 Cups
2 Eggs
Cajun Spice mix (wont make it too spicy for little ones, mild flavour and totally optional)
Salt
Spray Oil


Pre heat your oven to 220 degrees.

Cut Zucchini into 'Fries'. Do this by first cutting the the Zucchini to the 'length' your chips will be, then you will need to slice the lengths into fries, as shown below...

Set aside.

Beat the 2 eggs with a couple of good shakes of the Cajun Spice.

coat the Zucchini pieces in the Egg.

Then roll the eggy Zucchini in bread crumbs.

Line up on a tray covered with baking paper and a light spray of Oil.

Sprinkle VERY lighty with a little extra Cajun Seasoning and light spray of oil.

Bake for 12 - 15min

Salt lightly before serving...

They are sooooo good! My Toddler LOVES them!

Necklace Storage

I have started exploring innovative ways to store items found around the home.

I'm currently working on my cosmetics and jewellery.

Here is a image of my necklace rack - A simple wall hook rack screwed to the wall

It's been so convenient, and it also looks fab hanging on the wall!

Animal Pies - Kid Friendly Food

Using my Egg and Bacon Pie recipe as a base and a shortcut pasty to craft a lid for the pies...
This will take some imagination to mould a head for the lid of the pie

I have used Pepper corns for the eyes.

Once you have made your lids its as simple as pressing the Shortcut pastry to the open pie and Bake!

They were a real hit at dinner!

Sticky Picture Craft

This was a great activity for my toddler he had to really think about what he was doing and concentrate on his fine motor skills while completing his art work.

Even now Months on he still loves to show off his 'Sticky Picture'.

You will need:
Clear contact
Sticky Tape
Various items to use to decorate the clear contact (anything you wish!)
 - Coloured Rice
 - Paper
 - Glitter
 - Paints
 - Flowers
 - Leaves
             ... ... ... .. Just to name a few ideas!

You will need to start by cutting the desired size of the contact, peel the backing and then tape it down to a table sticky side up...

Then the child sticks the various objects/items where s/he pleases!

When complete stick a second sheet of clear contact over the top to hold it all together!

Weather Chart for Kids

Quite a few months ago I made a 'Weather Chart'.

My Toddler loves choosing the correct weather and attaching it...

Its been a great way to teach him the seasons, days, and weather while having fun with the chart.

I have laminated the chart and all it's pieces, and it's still going strong!

I have uploaded the weather chart Here so its able to be printed, coloured in and cut out...

Toddler Snack - Apples

Here is a fun way to Jazz up some apples to make them more appealing...

Apple and Grape Cars.
Using tooth Pics give Apple Slices little wheels!

Using a soda can I have made a heart cutter, I have done this because I didn't have any cookie cutters small enough for this task.

Using the small cutter I then but the core out of sliced apples

What your left with are super cute apple slices!

The ideas are endless...

Choc Mint Truffle Log

1 bag of mints
1 packet of chocolate ripple bisciuts
1 cup of coconut
1 can of condesed millk

Crush the mints into either powder or really fine peices (if you have a food processor use that to smash it all up)

Mix the mint & biscuits together and smash or blend until crushed completely.

Add the coconut and can of condensed milk, mix it well until it is solid enough to roll into a log.

Roll in coconut, wrap in cling film and set in fridge until firm.

Slice...

Painted Keys - Distinguish Each Key

   Fumbling at the door trying Silver key after Silver key.

We have all done it!

I came across this neat idea that you paint the top of the key with nail polish - each key a different colour - so you know at a glance which key belongs to the door/place you wish to open!

I started on my keys.

I used a base and top coat for the keys hoping to get extra life out of the paint job on the top of my keys.

It's as simple as painting them each with a different colour nail polish and waiting for them to dry!