A week goes past

Tahi's granny and her daughter left yesterday, they'd been staying with us for a week. Tahi was overjoyed by the company and attention, he had a great time!
It was really nice to have some visitors, and we gave them some little thank you presents (although I forgot to give them a jar of olives... next time). I made a cookbook for Viv, the daughter, from an old battered children's book called Alexander's outing. Some of the pages were completely torn so there wasn't anything else to do with that poor book but repurpose it. Viv is 18 and decided this year she is going to get into cooking, so I thought this would be ideal for her to record her favourite recipes. Whether she liked it or not and whether she will use it or not who knows, but it was quite fun making something different that didn't involve a sewing machine for once.

I also made a cake the night before they left, a healthy one I could eat too (I am on a sugar free diet, which means I avoid all processed sugars). It uses agave nectar instead of sugar, and it was oh so nice. Even Josh who usually can tell when I make a "healthy" treat was sold. It's called a "Banana Choc Chia Cake" and I got it from Knifelovesspoon. It's not the first time I use a recipe from this blog and so far I haven't been disappointed.

Round yumminess

Today I tried out a new cracker recipe, found on a blog started by a friend of a friend, called knife loves spoon. The name alone would have prompted me to check it out, it sounds so much like one of those paintings Magritte could have done! And when I found out it was about food, healthy food, well, I couldn't give it a miss really.
The great thing about it is that the food is unpretentious, simple and easy to make. Plus it has a few raw food recipe that look fairly easy (not too many hard to find/expensive ingredients) and raw food desserts are usually to die for.
We love crackers in our household, so the wholegrain seed cracker recipe was just calling out my name. Tahi and I set to mixing all the ingredients, which took 20mn (not too bad with a toddler in tow!), 15mn of cooking and we had a nice pile of warm inviting crackers on the table. I doubled the recipe, knowing how fast we would go through them. I should probably have quadrupled it. they are a perfect match with blue cheese!