Hello again! While my darling is watching the cricket (blah!) I thought I would share some photos and recipes!
Yes - more cooking! and I have had lots of email about some of my recipes too - so here are the Hall family favourite we make this time of year!
My newest "Master-piece" Christmas Mars Bar Slice:
Ingredients:
multi pack of mini mars bars - 70 grams butter - 3 cups rice bubbles - teaspoon of golden syrup - block of white chocolate (forget the cooking choc - go for the cadbury!!) bit of copha - bit of des. coconut, green food colouring and hundreds and thousands.
How to: chop up mars bar and place in microwave safe bowl - add butter and golden syrup - microwave till melted (around 2 mins) add rice bubbles and mix well - press into slice tin and refrigerate till set - break up block of chocolate - add a bit of copha (around 20-30grams) and microwave till melted - add food colouring, coconut and hundreds and thousand and mix well - pour over slice and refrigerate again till set - chop up into squares and eat - scrummy!
Next... my now FAMOUS "Damper Dip"
Ingredients:
$2 of diced bacon
3 shallots
tin of creamed corn
carton of sour cream
knob of butter
handful of grated cheese
damper
How To:
chop up shallots and fry in butter with the bacon till crispy - stir in corn and cream - add a handful of grated cheese and simmer for a few minutes - cut the top off a damper and pull out inside bread - arrange on baking dish - tip bacon mix into damper and bake in moderate oven till bread goes crispy.
(last night I made this ahead of time and took the dip in a microwave container - I reheated the dip and poured it into the damper at the party!)
PLUS ++ my kids love the dip just on pasta for a quick dinner!
So I will share more recipes in the next few days...
now, yesterday I headed off to Sydney for Scrapabout's Christmas do - and do we did - so much fun - ate heaps of food and we played "stealing Santa" - it's pretty much the same as "secret Santa" only if you like someone else's gift - you can steal it - and then others can steal off you! Now it was SO funny! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time - some of the ladies got a bit possessive of the gifts - which made it even funnier - this darn box went was "stolen" like 8 times! I came home with a big box of ferrero(?) chocolates - yummo!
...And there was another reason why I headed so eagerly off to Sydney yesterday... check out what the back of "Masters" car look like when she picks up her prizes :) :) N-I-C-E!!!
There was so much - as I got two prizes - albums, books, storage stuff, papers galore, scrapworks rubons (love these!) and the whole lot of imagination projects - chipboard and paper - there is more and I plan to photograph it at some point - and it wouldn't all fit in the back of my wagon so there is even a box in the back seat - the MM tote was mine already though!
and here is a bit of a share - this is the Christmas gift I made for my boss Leanne at Scrapabout - a 4 litre paint tin - it's store all her supplies like tape, scissors etc in! the other side has a picture of her kids on it!
The instructions for this and more photos will be up on my GIFTS GALORE blog tomorrow! So fun to make - and I am making a few more in the next few days!
Finally... here are just a couple of gorgeous shots of the misses this week - celebrating Christmas and each other!
Live it! Love it! Create it! Be MERRY!
Jen xoxox
Lucky you Jen!! I wish my boot was choccas with scrapping stuff!!
And I can't wait to try out your recipes...mmmmmmmmmm ;o)
Posted by: Kelly | December 16, 2006 at 10:47 PM
It was good night!! "Stealing Santa" was a HOOT!!have not had a good laugh like that for awhile.
Loved your "Chrissy Mars Slice"
And the little MISSES look so cute in there hats :)
Posted by: Michelle Tondi | December 16, 2006 at 10:53 PM
I to wish I had a boot full of goodies. I'm sure you will have fun Jen. Love the tin.
Posted by: julie | December 17, 2006 at 12:56 AM
loving those recipes... loving your tin.. and wish i had a car full of scrapping stuff for xmas..lol....
C...xxx
ps.have fun playing!!!
Posted by: connie | December 17, 2006 at 07:49 AM
Love the look of the mars bar slice jen! Yummo. And the prizes...... yay!!!!!!!!!!! Have you made your way through them all yet??? You lucky bugger!!
Posted by: Sheree McGee | December 17, 2006 at 10:46 AM
mmmmmmm, yum, thanks for sharing these recipes Jen. And HUGE congrats on the masters!!!
Posted by: Mel Diener | December 17, 2006 at 01:09 PM
Beautiful photos of the children & that damper delight looks fantastic, I will certainly be making that over this joyous festive season, thats if I get a chance, with all those wonderful gifts I am making from your Gifts Galore Centre xx God Bless you & Yours
Posted by: Pamela | December 17, 2006 at 06:55 PM
You lucky duck - all those goodies look so wonderful. I'm sorry I couldn't come on Friday night - the tin you made for Leanne is fabulous.
Alison
Posted by: Alison Shearer | December 17, 2006 at 07:55 PM
that Mars slice looks delish! as does your Chrissy tin.
Congrats again on the prizes ... you nearly needed a trailer!
Posted by: Jaimie | December 18, 2006 at 12:30 AM
Thanks for the recipes- I'll have fun making these!!! Have a lovely CHRISTmas!!!
sue
Posted by: sue Mahaffie | December 18, 2006 at 10:34 AM
Love the mars bar slice recipe, clever making it into a Christmas one!
That dip you make, we call it Cob Loaf Dip, and I have few other variations of it like an Italian one, a cold version ...... they are soo scrummy. I took cook mine the cheats way and use the microwave, as it is just way to long to wait for the oven lol
Posted by: Kathy Pitt | December 18, 2006 at 11:34 AM
I love the photos......and the recipes look very intersting...LOL
Posted by: Lynne | December 19, 2006 at 12:41 AM
I'll try this recipe but I'm not sure to know hat is copha !!! Never heard it here in France ?!?!
What about your "Jen's Gifts Galore" ? Don't forget me to join the club !!!
Posted by: natoune | December 19, 2006 at 06:32 AM
I've just received a very nice comment from Sheridan, maybe you don't know she's Jen's mummy... I don't know where I should contact her to thank for explications about copha... Thank you very much Sheridan, it's not the first time you come visit my blog and let very kind words... Jen you have a very nice mum... Should we have a little layout about Her ?... It should be so cute...
Posted by: natoune | December 19, 2006 at 10:01 AM
ooooh, thanks for the damper dip recipe, yummo! Gorgeous photos too :)
Posted by: Carol | December 20, 2006 at 06:44 AM
Congrats Jen on your win but what I really wanted to say was a BIG thank you for that wonderful recipe of the Christmas Mars Bars slice. It was such a huge hit on Christmas Day that my lot were fighting over the last pieces. I have had to make photo copies to send the recipe home with family who were visiting. Thanks so much for sharing.
Posted by: Kayzee | January 01, 2007 at 09:01 PM