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APPLE BLUEBERRY SLICE Ingredients: 3 apples, cored, peeled (optional) and thinly sliced. 1 punnet (125g) blueberries (you could use other berries or a cup of sultanas/raisins) 180g (6.35oz) self raising flour 4 eggs at room temp 3 tbl spoons honey Milk as needed (I use about 1 tbl spoons oat milk) DESTRUCTIONS: Preheat oven to 200c (390f) Line a rectangle baking tray 35cm x 24cm (13 3/4" x 9 1/2") In a large bowl beat the eggs and honey. Add the flour and beat well the add enough milk to make a runny batter. Mix the apple slices into the batter. Pour batter and apples into lines tray, sprinkle berries on top, poming some down a bit into the batter. Bake 35-45mins until golden on top or skewer comes put clean. Cool, cut and enjoy.

Almond Bickies (Bickies = biscuits = cookies) Gluten free, sugar free, dairy free, egg free, vegan, low carbon. Ingredients: 1 cup pure almond butter 1/4 cup pure maple syrup Destructions: Preheat oven to 175C (350f) line baking tray with paper In a bowl use a wooden spoon or spatula to mix the ingredients until it gets to bickie dough consistency...3-4 minutes Place 1/2 tablespoon size balls onto tray and flatten slightly (can do bigger but smaller is healthier, you get a treat and it's enough) Bake for 12 minutes, Bickies are done when the tops are dry and have a few minor cracks. Cool on tray, will be soft but get harder as cool. **You can use other nut butters, but almond is the best. You can not substitute the maple syrup for honey, it just doesn't work.

So....been trying to mix up my baking with some healthier options....didn't say they were healthy, just healthier....anything you bake that's not to bad to eat?

Tomato Soup and cheese toasties (toasted cheese sandwiches)... This was one of the first meals I learned to 'cook' and it's the first meal i taught the kid....she just sms'd asking if we could have this for dinner...27C ain't really soup and toasty weather but guess that's wot were having.

5. Knit a beanie

G'day an welcome aboard. Take your time to look around, there are heaps of resources here. We come from all over the world so it's very rare to not have someone around if you need support. There is the daily NOPE thread and we even have an SOS thread. You feel like smoking and think you might cave, pop in there and sing out your sos...peeps will come talk you off the ledge. Be kind to yourself, you have 9 years of addiction to undo so make sure to reward yourself. Just take it 1 day at a time, before you know you will be a year or more in.

Making wabbits

RIP Chris Bailey....

Election has been called...off to the polls we go Sat 21 May.....democracy sausages here we come! 1 down, 1 to go..... could still be a little Anzac Day baby.... Right now... I'm sitting in me car listening to the footy....

Waiting for the big announcement....oh...um...waiting for the 2 big announcements... 1. The birth of Baby Boo 2 2. The Aussie election Both are going to be any day now....I dunno if my nails will survive it.

Baking almond gluten free cookies as party of baby sisters birthday pressie. Already made berry protein balls and chocolate crackle protein balls, once the biscuits are done it will be sugarfree choc chip clouds.... then I have to drive 2 hours from one side of Melbs to the other to meet her for dinner at all you can eat Japanese....worth it to get to nurse her gorgie bubba.

Well this is it for my 2022 Train Day songs....well the downunder ones...sure you northern mob could add some too... Happy Birthday QT....saving the smokers of the world for 8 long years and still spreading the good word.

Oright this one says its Paul Kelly... but it's really Paul and Troy Cassar-Daly.... so here ya go some Aussie Country.... Paul's playing the harp...although considering how often I post his stuff you probably all know that.

Ah a two up from the Pigrim Brothers and it ain't even Tuesdee....

Gee those Waifs sure like singing about trains...

It's Train Day...

Oh... nowhere random thought.... are snickerdoodles North America's version of the pavlovs?.... I've seen these cinnamon delights referred to as both Canadian and American in origin.... so down here those pesky little brothers of ours in NZ are always trying to claim they invented the pav, they didn't but because of the underarm incident we tend to humour them and sort of pretend they have a claim to it. But when they come for our laminations, thems fighting words...gees Louise they'll be after claiming Vegemite next.

Random thought....I don't think this is the what are you doing right now thread.... oops, yeah nah, it can stay here. Oh here's a random thought....hope the nobody bickies work, I usually use 50/50 brown sugar and white sugar BUT we currently have a sugar shortage in the southern states.. and I wasn't game to substitute monkfruit sugar instead...so it's all brown sugar this time, I think from memory that makes them chewier.

Baking. Yes it's 2am Friday in my neck of the woods... Yes I have work tomorrow... So given up trying to sleep. I just drift off and bam...stupid digestive issues have me up and rocking in pain... oh but don't feel sorry fir me, its total self inflicted.... yep, I knowingly ate foods that make me ill. ANZAC bickies anyone? ^ What one bakes when the egg cartons are empty.

U9. String them in the trees to decorate a city street. Here's one Melbourne prepared earlier....

10. Squeeze out blackheads. Um... 10 Things to use 100s n 1000s (sprinkles/jimmies)

6. To do overnight ringlet curls

10. End your marriage without a divorce. (Only works if the other half uses the bath) Bobby pins

So there's this Japanese tradition of glue broken pieces of a cup back together with gold so gold shows through at the cracks...the beauty of an imperfection. You mob are my gold.

Congrats Boo... Wot a ripper quit. Not much to say that hasn't been said but... Thank you, thank you, thank you... for your support, For your guidance and so many freakin laughs. For graciously (& unknowingly) accepting the role as my quit brother... I mean thinking of ways to shit stir you (poke the bear) got me through many a crave...don't think I've ever confessed that before... I mean pointing me to stick of the day I'm sure you weren't expecting to see welding sticks or the total lunacy it devolved into...so for anyone wonder @Boo is 100% responsible for the genius of stick of the day. Seriously though, I'm sorry if any of the shit I pulled hurt or upset you... stirring the shit outta someonelse is a pretty immature way to cope with your own crap but please know you dragged my arse through some really dark places, and down under havin a sledge or hangin shit is how we treat our mates. Just wanted you to realise just how much of a difference you did make and still do to people all over the world. Those tin lids of yours really lucked out in the dad department. Oright, enough of that crap.... great job mate, ripper quit for a bonza bloke. 😀