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Dearest loyal Phoodie Phans (and also random folk who may be on this site for the first time),
In summary, I am writing this post to let you know that I am currently experiencing “technical difficulties” i.e my beautiful Apple has busted it’s guts and is in repairs.
As we “speak”, I am typing on my IPad and sadly, all the pics for my “Summer Evening” post are on my *proper* computer. Soooooo, until this returns to me I can’t complete that story.
But friends, remain calm. Alert yet NOT alarmed. The computer is due back soon and when it comes not only will you get to read the “Summer Evening” post you will also get to read ANOTHER crackkkkkkking birthday party post! I think this new party post is going to be my absolute FAVOURITE piece of all time!
Until then, you may want to check out my latest piece featured on the smashin’ blog Mamamia.
Yours in Phabulous Phood,
Phoodie
I’m low on time.
I’m high on orange and mango cordial.
(2 small bubbas’ll do that to ya…)
I would like to share some pics from our Christmas feast with you.
Only a few.
Enjoy!
SPINACH SALAD WITH ORGANIC BLUE STILTON, CARAMELISED PECANS AND HONEY VINAIGRETTE
GREEK RISONI SALAD
ROAST PORK
ROAST TURKEY WITH AMAZING CRANBERRY AND PINE NUT STUFFING
ROAST GLAZED HAM
FENNEL SALAD
FAMOUS PLUM SAUCE
YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
I love kid’s birthday parties.
EVERYTHING about them.
I love planning them, cooking for them, hosting them, eating at them…..everything!
I must disclose, however, that in this post I am pretty much just the messenger…. apart from the “Alien Star” food labels with the googly eyes and the “Metoeorites” I had pretty much nothing else to do with the entire event!
The party was hosted by my sister “N” in honour of my gorgeous nephew “A1″ turning 3! Happy Birthday Louli-pop!
THE INVITATIONS
The invitiations were bought in a pack of 12 (I think) from Papier D’amour – the store is in Double Bay (in Sydney) but you can shop online by clicking here.
They had rockets and aliens and UFO’s on them, but were still stylish, if that makes sense! Not cheap but vey cute!
THE DECORATIONS
Being a 3rd bday, Sissy didn’t want to go cwaaaaazy w the decos so she kept it pretty minimal.
Using chalk, she wrote the numbers counting down from 10 to 1 on the pavement.
She then made a really simple “BLAST OFF” sign.
Double sided silver cardboard stars, courtesy of Aunty T, were hung in the garden with fishing line.
The cups and plates were all blue with stars on them and the straws were blue and white striped!
It must be noted that the garden looked BEAUTIFUL as well – the hydrangeas are STUNNNNNNNING at this time of year!
THE FOOD
METEORITES aka Honey Joys. Childhood memories with every bite. Get the recipe here
STAR SAMBOS – also moons, rockets and aeroplanes – with Vegemite, and Ham and Cheese.
MOON ROCKS – aka Chocolate crackles. Get the recipe here. Thanks Morls!
FRUIT ROCKETS - aka fruit on a skewer in shape of rocket.
MILKY WAYS
ALIEN CUPCAKES – Alien character from Toy Story 3
ROCKET ICY POLES – Watermelon flavour.
DONUT PLANETS – Jam Donuts
LOLLY BAGS
I loved what Sissy did with the lolly bags! She covered take away coffee cups with alfoil, made a cardboard cone as the top and little wing-y things as well! SO clever. She wrote each childs initials and age on the side of the “rockets”.
THE CAKE
The cake was a “Rocket” made from a basic vanilla cake recipe with vanilla and chocolate layered icing.
It was decorated with silver and red balls and liquorice.
It was placed on a black cake board which was decorated with silver stars and layered with white marshmallows (rocket smoke from take off)
It “took off” via sparklers that were inserted into it’s rear.
The kids went NUTS for it!
If you enjoyed this post, you may also want to check out the one I wrote after my daughter’s 1st bday party – click here!
Happy Birthday Louli!
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I stayed true to my promise.
Ever since I’ve been a grown up (or perhaps since I was of ‘age’….still not sure that I am grown up) I have made sure that on the eve of October 31 the house has more sugar in it than even Willy Wonka would approve of!
This year however, despite the chaos that is my life, I decided it would be a good idea to bake for the visiting kids in the street – something yummy but also something that they would get a laugh from too!
And that is where these ‘Phreakish Witches Phingers’ stepped in!
The recipe is super simple, like most on this blog, so not only won’t these biscuits take you long to make, but if you’ve got kids then they can help you whip them up as well!
The biscuit / cookie is simply shortbread. Any old, basic shortbread recipe works here. I have used Nigella Lawson’s which you can find by clicking here. I normally use this when making “traditionally shaped” shortbread so I thought why not for my phingers! For this recipe though, I replaced the vanilla seeds with 2 teaspoons of vanilla essence. The reason for this is that I didn’t want my fingers to have little black dots all over them! You can use either.
Apart from the ingredients listed by Nigella, you will also need Blanched almonds for the fingernails and red food gel for the blood!
Below are some pics of the dough…..
Once I’ve made it, I always refridgerate for about half an hour before rolling out.
When ready to roll, (I take out only about a large handful of dough at a time to work with – this is because the dough “melts” pretty quickly, making the shaping of the fingers tougher!) take about a teaspoon and a half of dough and roll into finger shape, pinching in at the knuckles. Use a knife to cut lines in knuckle and upper part of finger. Press Almond firmly into top of biscuit as the nail.
Place biscuits on a tray and shove into a pre-heated 160 deg cel oven for about 25 mins or until shortbread is slightly golden.
As soon as you take the biscuits out of the oven, lift up the almond, squirt the red gel on the nail bed and push almond back down on top.
Cool on a cookie stand. Or a pizza tray.
Finito! EASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSY!
Oh, and just because I had HOURS of spare time on my hands (not!!) I tested out some smaller phingers (about a teaspoon of dough). Below you can see them cooling alongside the larger ones. For the record, I think the larger ones look better.
Happy Hallowe’en folks!
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Dear y’all lovely, loyal and supportive phollowers,
As many of you know, Phoodie Junior #2 is about to enter the world.
I am SUPER excited but also very realistic about what this means for my blog (in the short term!)
Bye bye Nachos and Nicoise and HELLO Nappies and Night feeds!!!
No doubt a wave of exhaustion will engulf me as I do the best I can to keep my head above the water! NO ONE said 2 kids under 18 months was easy!
Anyway, I just wanted you to know that I have appreciated your ongoing support over the last 2 or so years and I WILL BE BACK, I’m just not sure when!
The best thing for you to do to stay updated, if you haven’t already, is to subscribe to the blog – you can do this by clicking on the button to the right of the page and entering your e-mail address. By subscribing, you will get automatic e-mail notifications every time I update the site / add a new post.
Before I say ‘pharewell for now’, I thought I would leave you with some snaps and links to my “Most Popular Posts of all time” …..y’know…. a little somethin’ from the Phoodie archives! Click on the headings to go directly to the full post.
ENJOY!
ALICE IN ‘ONE’DERLAND – Bubba’s 1st Birthday Party
ADRIANO ZUMBO’s 2011 EURASIAN COLLECTION
“POT PLANT” DESSERT – CHOCOLATE MINT MOUSSE
WHITE CHOCOLATE COOKIES AND CREAM ROCKY ROAD
CHOCOLATE COCONUT CAKE WITH RASPBERRY CREAM AND DARK CHOCOLATE GANACHE
Don’t forget to click around the site and look at all my other phabulous posts. There are tonnes of recipes and reviews that will keep you entertained and inspired for hours!
Adios Amigos!
See you soon!
Take care,
Phoodie
p.s click this link phor one phinal phavourite post?! WHO STABBED MY CHICKEN!?
Ciao!
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