pies

kit-kat,

what's going on with you? it's really cold here, it just keeps snowing and the roads are so icy - it's a challenge just to walk to the bus stop. i am uncertain why i live in this country.

however, the cold weather means a hankering for some hearty food so today i cobbled together a pretty good veggie shepherds pie which was super easy to make. i thought you might like the recipe.

nanny's no-meat shepherds pie

extras:

1 cup grated cheese
1 small knob (ha! - knob) butter
salt and pepper

the sauce:

1 tin tomatoes
.5 cup stock
1.5 cups chopped nuts
1.5 cups breadcrumbs
1 tsps chopped parsley
1 onion
2 cloves garlic

fry the onions and garlic in a pan til brown, add the stock and the can of tomatoes and break up the tomatoes. add the other ingredients and stir until even.

the veggies:

1 small butternut squash
4 potatoes
half a head of broccoli - chopped fine
3 carrots - chopped

steam the potatoes and pumpkin until soft. set aside the potatoes. mash the pumpkin and lay out on the bottom of a medium sized casserole dish. add a layer of the sauce mixture then lay in a layer of broccoli, another layer of sauce and then a layer of carrots. add a final layer of the sauce and grate a layer of cheese over the dish.

the mash topping:

place the previously steamed potatoes in a bowl with the butter, salt and pepper. mash until smooth and lay over the top of the dish to form the pie topping. add another layer of grated cheese and fork the topping to create peaks that will brown in the oven.

place the dish in the oven and bake at 180 deg C for around 40 minutes. yum!


i love you. hope 2010 is rocking.

xxx

homie

just a little lookie at the Imeson/Liddiard-Smith boudoir and how my accessories have slowly but surely taken over....

how was your christmas? mine was lovely, sandy got me a whizzing, whisking, chopping, dicing machine (i think he is not-so-secretly hoping for more baking) and pennie got me a subscription to frankie magazine *sigh* i am already anticipating the delicious monthly arrival through the letterbox.

and then it snowed

italy revisited

i drank wine and remembered our summer times in italy 5 years ago... it was much colder this time :(

marrakech

bad nanny

kitty! i know i have been super slack with the blog posting, but have also been super busy... sorry :(

thought i would give you a quick catch up on the last few months events and then start fresh with regular posts in the new year.... so here goes...

we went to berlin and caught up with Bastian and had romance time... it was awesome.




here he is with his lady - they are still fresh in love....

so are we :)

then it was work, work, work, stress, stress, stress til we went on our holiday with the fam.

first up was Marrakech, all bin cats and shrieking mosques, eager rug salesmen and murderous mopeds winding through the souks. we ate crepes and lapped up the sun on the roof terrace, we watched snake charmers and monkey tamers and played monopoly and scrabble by the fire every night. photos to follow...

Golden Girls - they were popular for a reason!

So I have a project for us. The government has heaps of $$$$ for positive aging projects and I was thinking we should do a doco or something around older people. Lets face it they have way better stories over young people. Think about it.