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October 13, 2015 by Stacey 14 Comments

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The weather is beautiful today and although I’ve already had a cup of Yorkshire this morning, I’d kill for this bloody mary I had in Portland. Best one I ever had… so I had two.

One kiddo is at kinder, and the other one is systematically painting every part of her body with green paint. It always starts out the same way… they get out the newspaper, paints, paintbrushes, ask for water, paint three strokes on the paper and then ask if they can paint their fingers. Nek minute, they are covered head to toe.

No shit as I was typing this, Smalls painted one entire hand, stamped it on the paper, and wiped it all off on her clothes. She’s standing on 47,000 green foot prints. She’s also singing some kind of adorable song, lost in her own world, so there’s that.

We spent much of yesterday doing arse crahts for some tutorials I’m writing. As much as I’m all about Christmas starting early it definitely was even early for me. But the kids had a ball and I now feel justified watching Christmas-themed movies. To be honest I should have started my plum pudding anyway so for some I’m positively outrageously late. Next week I’ll do a Halloween-themed craft and confuse us all entirely.

I had quite the reminder of little ears and eyes watching me last week as Lunchbox was away in Tasmania and it was just us girls… I was concentrating on something and Smalls kept asking me for her 80th sandwich of the day. After a while I said distractedly “yes Smalls, I heard, you,” and Bigs pipes up “you forgot to say ‘jesus!‘”. I burst out laughing even though she was serious, and I wondered how often I’d let out an exasperated vain name-take that week… or how often I ever do. I know there’s a few under-breath FFSes and even a couple of ‘for chrissake’s bandied about on this parenting a three- and four-year-old gig, particluarly when they call “muuuuuuuuum” on average once every 3.8 seconds and it’s usually when I’ve already gone upstairs.  oh shit the kid is painting her face now. She tells me she was trying to do her lipstick. She must have been watching those Kylie Jenner lip challenge tutorials on YouTube because that shit is in her eyebrows.

I spent much of the week before last trying recipes from the 1970 Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbook, seeing how much of it I could complete in each meal of the week. It turns out there really is only so much canned asparagus you can eat even though you thought you liked it. We did revisit the delights of french onion soup mixed with sour cream as a dip, which has been a lifetime firm favourite. Oh and chocolate mint slice which is entirely rad.

We’ve also not bought shop-bought bread for two weeks now, as I just make a loaf every day or every couple of days in the breadmaker. Which has been a goal of mine since I got that damn breadmaker almost two years ago. I gave myself the first year off even though I made bread pretty religiously in it, I didn’t sleep a wink all that year so was pretty incapable of sticking to any type of goal except don’t die. This year was busier than I expected and when the Aussie Farmers Direct order just kept showing up with bread and I forgot to remove it from the order before the cutoff, I just lived with the bread consequences. Then two weeks ago I cancelled the bread and forced myself to use the threat of being breadless to finally making it constantly instead of only once a week. Challenge successful, the kids eat it like there has never been any other kind of bread, and it’s hardly any work and so much cheaper/more delicious/more filling. I make all kinds of bread, but if you’re getting started, this one is absolutely foolproof. Makes good scrolls too, I make them pretty often for lunchboxes and stuff. I hide veggies in the pizza scrolls so Smalls doesn’t contract scurvy.

Speaking of which, I’m starving so it must be time for second breakfast and another pot of tea. Hope all is good with you!

xo

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  1. sammie@theannoyedthyroid.com says

    October 13, 2015 at 10:03 am

    Man, that Bloody Mary looks so good. I could totally smash one now, because Bloody Marys are the best for breakfast or brunch for that matter. Or any time of day really. Home made bread is the best – but we have a self-enforced bread embargo at home. If it’s here, we inhale it faster than the speed of light and then spend the rest of the day lamenting our bread bellies! A slice of yours would be rather nice!

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    • Veggie Mama says

      October 13, 2015 at 10:26 am

      Oh a breadless house would take some getting used to! Bread is my life. Fortunately none of us have any issues with gluten or wheat so I don’t have to think about it. But we could always have a bloody mary, that might take the sting out of it 🙂

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  2. Samantha Macann says

    October 13, 2015 at 10:12 am

    I’m inspired! Off to buy a bread maker to use it in 2 years time!

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    • Veggie Mama says

      October 13, 2015 at 10:25 am

      hahah you won’t regret it! It’s good for pizza dough too, we use it pretty regularly for that. Makes a good fruit loaf also, that gets a run fairly often! Hope your mum has a good birthday x

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  3. mrsrodimus says

    October 13, 2015 at 10:46 am

    We go through so much bread with a family of 5, now that the youngest is starting to eat solids.
    Do you find it ends up being cost effective making (vs buying) even if don’t buy your ingredients in bulk? And, the big question, how on earth do you manage to slice bread maker bread well enough to make sandwiches?
    PS my ‘princess’ made a blue paint bum print yesterday, and when I asked why she told me to stop ‘suppressing my creative fluid’

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  4. Reannon @shewhorambles says

    October 13, 2015 at 11:18 am

    I am too scared to pull paint out with my two yet so they just get water & those books you brush water over & it looks like paint.

    And speaking of bread, I may have finally cracked a no-knead sourdough. I went right off trying to bake a decent sourdough loaf for a month or so after some very bad loaves but I might be on to something. Kids still won’t eat it but screw those guys !

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  5. Nikki | Styling You says

    October 13, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    Could go a bloody Mary with you right about now x

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    • Veggie Mama says

      October 13, 2015 at 5:58 pm

      Always x

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  6. Hugzilla says

    October 13, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    Ok I wish that everyone could stop talking about fucking Christmas already. It scares me. I’d like to remain in blissful denial about this a bit longer.

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    • Veggie Mama says

      October 13, 2015 at 5:58 pm

      Yeah but when you think I get paid monthly, and that’s only twice more before Christmas, I’d really better get my ass into gear!

      Reply
  7. NormalNess says

    October 13, 2015 at 9:34 pm

    I somehow broke my breadmaker. I can’t remember how now. Honestly though, I was too damn lazy to slice my own bread.

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  8. Savannah Stewart says

    October 13, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    Holy guacamole! I didn’t know what a scroll (insert American joke here) was so I googled it. Um, hello! Where have these been all my life? It looks like a savory cinnamon bun…I just need to make these!

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  9. Tina Lacy says

    October 14, 2015 at 2:52 pm

    I love a cup of tea with you time, its makes me smile 🙂

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  10. Shari from GoodFoodWeek says

    October 15, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    I introduced the Little Dude to painting this week. I had been holding off the whole experience until he had turn one in the hopes that the paint would be directed towards the paper. I feel we had a first successful attempt. Thankfully it was also at ‘Paint and Play’ at our local park – where the amazing women from PlayGroups ACT set everything up and pack everything away!

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