Tag: dinner
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Dancing, ducks and dinner
Yesterday Elizabeth danced at her school’s annual international festival. She did the hornpipe and it was fantastic but I’m in trouble because my camera ran out of space mid-way through recording it so I only got the first part. It was the best hornpipe I’ve seen her do too. Ben got some photos which I’ll…
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Dinner last night and earlier in the week
I’ve been meaning to share photos of dinner each night because that’s what people do these days isn’t it? Plus I’m sure everyone is dying to see what I eat. Last night was a lentil almond curry, make with beluga lentils but red lentils would work just as well. We had it with brown rice.…
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Soup, hamster, lights
Dinner tonight was soup with homemade sourdough. I made the soup using Hodmedod’s mix of British grown peas. You can buy it in 5kg bags to save money. The pea mix alone consists of 5 different varieties: red fox carlin peas, black badger carlin peas, marrowfat peas, blue peas, and yellow peas – all grown…
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Life before kids…or not
My mother-in-law is currently staying with us so Ben and I took advantage of her offer to babysit and go out for dinner child-free. This is the first time we’ve done this in more than seven years. I kid you not. We went to Takapuna and left early so that we could walk along the beach before…
