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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Buttons and Bentos

Back in December, when it was Stephen's birthday, as usual I forgot to buy a card. Over the years, we have coined the term, "garage card". This refers to the birthday card you receive from someone which has obviously been bought in the local petrol station/corner shop, at the last minute.
For men, they usually feature, yachts, old style racing cars, golf clubs etc.

So, I thought I would be very cheesy and I made him a homemade "garage card". Well he thought it was great of course.

Here is a photo:

I got lots of wool from one of Stephen's sisters for xmas. I knit up a quick slouchy style hat, following a pattern from ravelry.com. To finish the rather plain hat off, I used a beautiful green leather button, that Stephen bought me for xmas from Fairysteps.
Stephen calls it my borrowers hat :)

I also received for gifts some very cute bento stuff. I got a 3 nested My Neighbour Totoro bento box, a cute monkey furikake dispenser and an adorable penguin mayo holder :)

Here is an example of them in use, with cod fish balls and spinach, with fish furikake and garlic mayo ;P

Sunday, March 09, 2008

I have been planning on baking some homemade breakfast/granola bars for some time now and always seem to forget one vital ingredient whilst shopping. So, today I just said,"feck it" and went ahead with whatever was laying around.

First off I will say that while the boyfriend and I did enjoy them, they were not what you would call 'bars'. They were a bit too loose, so I think they would be great crumbled into some delicious organic natural or flavoured yoghurt, like my fave Biobú Lífræn jógúrt in hrein.

If I make these again, I would add more peanut butter and bake them on a lower heat of around 150ºc for 20 minutes.

Ingredients:

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There you go, tasty and full of goodness. Here is a recipe I am dying to try: Big Sur Breakfast Bars