About

My reasons for starting this blog are personal really, rather than hoping to reach a wide audience.  I want a place to record all our home management ideas and recipes so my children are able to find them in years to come.  Feel free to stay if you like what you see.

My inspiration for this came from:

• Have you ever cooked something so yummy but then never been able to remember quite what you did to make it?  I have...
• My mum told me once she could never cook mince like her mother-in law; imagine being able to learn that secret touch and make someone happy 
• My mum also told me that when she was a child my grandmother would cook the green leaves of silver beet for dinner one night and the following night they would have the white silver beet stalks in white sauce - waste not, want not.
• My grandmother.  I remember smells of cooking beans, stewing tomatoes, and Christmas lunch roast and minted peas.  I know I could have learnt a lot from her.  She isn't here now to ask, but I have her old cook books with pencil notes by recipes she obviously used, one of which is dated 1894.
• And lastly I just want a spot to share photos of food we make because I like to do that.  Better here than boring people on Facebook! 

Old recipe books from my grandma's place 

Enjoy!

~L