Being a Mum is like flying a kite, you never know which way it is going to turn, it can turn really fast and end up crashing. Or it can just float happily and peacefully in one place, or simply sway from side to side

Gingerbread Men

Yummy Gingerbread Recipe

Run run as fast as you can you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man. I think most would be able to run faster than our hand cut gingerbread men.

Here is what you will need

Ingredients

150grams butter, chopped
1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup honey
1 tspn bicarbonate of soda
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tbspn ground ginger
1 tspn mixed spice
1/2 tspn baking powder
3 cups plain flour

Here what you need to put it all together.

1. Place butter, sugar and honey in a saucepan over a medium heat. Cook, stirring, for about 3 mins or until you think the sugar has dissolved. Bring it to the boil, then remove from

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Sticky Date Pudding - Recipe

A Delicious Dessert!

Ok you are going to have to trust me that this is really really yummy, and that it looks fantastic. I made it the other night when friends came over for dinner, but of course got chatting and the like and completely forgot to take any pictures, so you will just have to use your imagination a bit with what it looks like.

Imagine you are at a classy restaurant and you choose sticky date pudding of the menu, it arrives in this fantastic bowl bigger than any bowl you have ever seen, it has this lovely, moist piece of pudding in the middle of the plate, drizzled all

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Pavlova - Australian Dessert

Traditional Australian Christmas Dessert

This is a really yummy dessert, in Australia it is a traditional dessert for Christmas Day. I am not sure where the tradition comes from, I can’t seem to find anyone that knows. It just seems to be that way, and we have one every year. You can have it at other times of the year of course.

You will need

6 Egg whites
1 1/2 cups (300g) caster sugar
2 tsp white vinegar
1 tb cornflour
300ml thickened cream

Fruit to decorate - Banana, Mango, Kiwifruit, Passionfruit, Berries (fresh or frozen).

Tips:
- Make sure the bowl you are using is well washed and free of grease.
- Refrigerate eggs before separating: the yolks will separate

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Risoni Pasta with Meatballs

Recipe: Meatballs with Risoni

I didn’t really know what Risoni was before I found this recipe, but now I know that it is a kind of pasta, and a pretty tasty one at that.  I have made this a few times now and the children love it, we love it too luckily.

It is a good recipe for the children to help you prepare, they love to make the meatballs, getting in and getting their little hands all covered in mixture. The Little Mans meatballs end up all mixed back up together and he tends to flatten then out, rather than roll them into balls, but he has fun which is the

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