food from my heart xxx

money is an annoyance for me...

gee haven't i crappered on enough about it?!

(put it on a leaf, send it down the stream)

(that's the money story, thanks brain, shut the book, put it back in the shelf)

people at work quite enjoyed the butter biscuits i made on wednesday - i guess they were alright then even though i thought they could have been done better...

but much like the saying that you are your worst critic - i am very much that in relation to my cooking...

starting to think of my repertoire of cookery, and i think there's a fair bit of things i can make... it really doesn't matter where the recipe comes from, if you're the one making it, then that's all that matters...

one of the nicest comments i heard about the biscuits today was from tim in the lunch room, he said that in cooking he can usually taste the love that goes into some foods - he could taste the love in my biscuits...

i guess that's one of the things i'm glad i inherited from mum - my love for cooking and food in general... i have often in the past given food as presents for people's birthdays or at christmas time, because it really is something i believe is special and from my heart...

i gave my neighbour a whole lasagne for her birthday once...

i gave a batch of portuguese tarts to my best friend's sister and her family as a christmas present (all approx 60 of them)

i made a big fried rice as a gift for the family who invited me to visit on christmas day last year...

i have made banana cake in the past, cut it into quarters, and given to my good friends when catching up at a pub a couple years ago, just for the fact that i wanted to make cake for them

i guess growing up in a european household, it means that i am of a firm believer that the kitchen really is the heart of the home... it's one of the reasons i love my home is because the kitchen is the centre of the home, it's close to my bedroom, and i can cook directly in front of guests in the dining room or lounge room with the open plan...

so if ever someone comes over for dinner and i cook for them, it's really an opportunity to show how much i appreciate them by way of feeding them :-)

i love food just as much as i love giving food to others - just as much as i love giving gifts to friends and family...