Guess what its March 2010.......hello how many post did I do last year.......some one has got to slap me or should I just give up on this blog thing altogether.........well lets see what this year shall bring..........Lets start off with this shall we....I will make a post once a month, lets just see if that will make it any better.....maybe I should tell a few people about this blog so that they will stop in to say hello.......maybe that would help me to keep up with it.

flower power

I was visiting my brother and sister in law this past week and took these in the garden.......

it had been raining the in the night and the rain drops were still on the Rose.

we go from this is to this........I just wish that you could smell the sweet sweet smell of this one.

as a kid we called these flowers "Naked Ladies" the leaves come after the flowers have gone.

the real name is a Bella Donna.

these are white ones but I do not think that they are as nice..............

Don't know what these are called this one is looking down on the plant

this one is taken look up from under the plant.........

these next 2 are weeds in the grass I thought they were really cool............

will I make regular post to this blog............

So it seems that I am good for a couple of post a year on this blog. lets see if I can actually get it going and keep it up. ...........

Since I last did a post we have moved

we packed up our house in Summerland and moved to New Zealand.
Great to be home again and back in New Zealand close to my family.
It really felt as if my soul had come home. Its good to be back on New Zealand soil again.

We lived with my Dad for a few months till we bought a house.



its a little house, don't know how we managed to get all our stuff in but we did.
Before we found the house we got a dog........his mane is Gilbert and he is a Jack Russel. This was taken the day we brought him home at 8 weeks...............


this is him at 17 months...............

play dough for the kids

today I thought I would give you a recipe for play dough, this is great and easy to make.

Play dough

mix in a medium pot:

1 cup white flour

1/4 cup salt

2 Tbsp. cream of tartar

combine and add:

1 cup water

1/4 tsp vegetable food coloring

1 Tbsp. oil

cook over medium heat and stir ( about 3 to 5 minutes)
it will look like a "globby" mess. you will be sure that it is not turning out....but it will. when it forms a ball in the center of the pot, turn out and knead on a lightly floured surface. Store in and air tight container or plastic bag. this is edible but not tasty.

Dinner with pictures

I could not think what to have for dinner, so I came up with this.

pork tenderloin with sticky sauce.

and

stir fry veggies with balsamic vinegar.


would you like to know how to make these dishes?

Pork Tenderloin with sticky sauce.

You will need
1 pork tenderloin.

2 crushed or grated garlic cloves
about 1 inch of fresh ginger root, grated
1/4 cup Light soy sauce
1/2 cup water
1Tbsp oil
1 jalapeno seeded and diced.
1/4 cup of brown sugar.

to flour meat you will need.
about 1/2 cup flour season with salt and pepper
extra oil to brown meat in

what to do
slice the pork tenderloin on the diagonal about 1/2 inch thick, flatten with the heal of your hand.
heat a little oil in the pan while you flour the meat. add slices of meat to pan a few at a time and brown well on each side,

lay in an oven safe dish, the pieces can over lap a bit that is fine.

while the meat is browning combine the garlic, ginger, soy sauce, water, oil, jalapeno. Pre, heat oven to 300 F, when all the meat is in the pan pour over the sauce mixture, bake in the oven for 10 min. turn meat and continue to bake for 10 more min. turn meat again, juice should be thick and sticky, if not bake a few more min.

Stir Fry Veggies you will need.

1/2 green pepper

1/2 zucchini

10 sugar snap peas

pineapple chunks

1 Tbsp oil

3 Tbsp balsamic vinegar

1 tsp sugar.

what to do

stir fry the zucchini in oil for a few min. till just starting to get tender, add other veggies stir fry for 1 min. Add vinegar and sugar and cook till liquid has thickened and coats the veggies.

and to round off the meal we had this:

Its been a year

so I have had this blog set up for a year now. Have never posted a thing, its about time I started,
don't you think?
so hear goes.........