It finally arrived last Thursday, and as much as Ethan loves his kindy I couldn’t believe his excitement about leaving. He has had the MOST fab teachers who have pushed him hard and made sure he has been completing his work and participating in everything. …
Ethan’s birthday week is always crazy, compounded this year by that inconvenient employment issue I have been having for the last six months….MY JOB! I really love it actually, I just like to complain. Lucky for Nana, Grandparents day was the day before Ethan left …
Oh my God. Internet geeks I might only say this once and consider it for your benefit…..NOM NOM.
I am a fat big fan of squid/calamari, whatever. Especially The Backyard’s Salt n Pepper Squid dish. I am probably only it’s #2 fan as Ethan is definitely Fan Numero Uno.
Every week when we grocery shop I park Ethan in the trolley in front of the fish counter so he can peruse the catch whilst I shop at the deli and then he bugs me to buy a tonne of fish (which we can’t afford). We can however, afford to buy squid and I’m sure you can too.
This pack of 3 frozen tubes (I am guessing that’s what they are called) cost a whopping $2.57. Total. They were frozen and packed by Countdown so I’m pretty sure you can get them any old where. Anywho, once you’ve got ’em, defrost those bad boys
Next, you want to slice them up, Dave cut them into pieces about 1.5cm thick.
Next you want to grind a LOT of salt and pepper into SOME flour. You know us, we never use measurements so here’s my advice; use less flour than you think you will need and more seasoning. I think lemon pepper seasoning would also be pretty sweet in the mix.
Tip the squid into the flour mix and make sure those rings are all coated, pull the rings out and pop them in a colander to shake off the excess flour.
OK, make sure your GOOD oil (ie canola EVO’s threshold is too low to fry so use another non-animal fat oil) is really hot, like spitting hot, divide the rings into approx two batches and fry til crispy. Drain on paper towel, the serve!
We served them with a creamy marinara sauce made from my old fav, Watties canned pasta sauce mixed with some cream cheese and some wholemeal pasta, a squeeze of lemon and a fresh salad with lettuce from the garden.
Seriously, this dinner took 10 minutes start to finish, the pasta took the longest to cook. And did I mention it was insanely yummy. Dave you’re a legend my love.
As I was shelling out dollars in the weekend for my loves 5th birthday party, one thing I just couldn’t buy was a pack of those ugly plastic goody bags that are used for like, 10 seconds before the lollies are devoured the toys are …
I read an update on twitter today, thought ‘ho hum’ and obviously filed it away until my brain was ready to process it. Well I was ready to think about it when I was driving home from netball this evening. Here’s the tweet Soooo…..a little …
and perhaps I could be called a wordsmith when I have had too much to drink, but I think I have a similar problem. I am a photosmith (thanks, I made that up). My posts have too many pictures. I take too many pictures and have too many pictures saved on my 2 external hard drives – I have compiled 102 gigs of photos in 5 years.
I love my picture memories though. I may not print them out and stuff millions of photo albums full of them, but I do look at my old blog posts and flip through my zillions of folders on my computer and laugh at my silly, fat little boy baby ::::::sobs ’cause he’s turning 5, did I tell you already?:::::::
In fact my love for my digital images and penchant for organization is what led me to blogging in the first place. The obvious chronology of blog posting creates a record of life/images/musings that is easily indexed and relived, moment by moment, month by month, year by year. I loved the idea of creating a dynamic record of our life for Ethan to look back on when he is older. And laugh at. And wonder exactly HOW much bourbon Mummy and Daddy drank during those formative years. Just joking……it’s only a little bit….
TIP: I may take gazillions of pictures BUT I am organized in my photo filing, on each hard drive I have a PICTURES folder, these are the only 2 places in my entire digital world where photos are allowed to be downloaded. Within each PICTURES folder are folders labelled 2004, 2005, 2006 etc and finally within each year folder I have 12 folders for the months of each year. This system seems common sense but I don’t know anyone else who does this. It makes life so much easier when you are searching for pics of your Gran at your brothers 21st birthday party (easy to find if you know the year and date of your bro’s bday right?).
So, in an effort to lighten the load of images I will post only one picture today and it’s not even that fabulous, but it made me laugh and Homer Simpsons everywhere will damn near melt with envy. Because I know you were going to ask, the answer is yes, I did buy these Meat-on-a-Stick treats and will post a review under the Gourmet Delights section of my website. Ha.
The day I have been secretly dreading for oh….five years is nearly here. Ethan is starting school in 7 days. My little mate who talks to me non-stop all day long, who loves sharks and hates lions because they kill Cheetahs is starting school. The …
We had an awesome Halloween this year, pumpkin carving on Friday afternoon, followed by Trick or Treating at Nana & Grandads and an awesome Halloween Party at Abby’s house on Saturday afternoon. Luckily Ethan’s costume was a no brainer. He hates dressing up but if …
Mind your step, the blog is having a makeover and everything is a bit jumbled up! I have moved to wordpress.org and have lost some pics so am trying to sort out the content as well as the aesthetic. Fingers crossed xxxx
