My latest project: Bread!!!

Baking you own bread is so rewarding, it's amazing how a few simple ingredients come together and turn into this beautiful home cooked creation to warm the heart.

I've taken the plunge and cancelled my weekly bread order from the health food shop because I've decided we will make all our own bread.
I mean I have a Thermomix so I really don't have any excuse not too.

So even though I'm excited I'm new to this and thought I would share the journey with you and hopefully inspire some of you to give bread making a go.

Now I'd made the odd focaccia and rolls twice before with my Thermomix and that's it in the 4months I've had it and well it was always rushed and I didn't really give it much of a though. But I've recently discovered the love for it.

Plan is to start out basic and then get creative.

So far this week I've done a spelt and buckwheat loaf which...well...I mucked up being distracted with my 3 eager helpers I forgot to grind the buckwheat grains up before adding the other ingredients. So I was thinking oh no goodness knows how this will turn out but we were all pleasantly surprised when it turned out totally AWESOME!!! The buckwheat grains had softened so they only had a slight crunch which added a nice texture and the flavour was just lovely.
It had the buckwheat flavour still but more subtle.
Was a winner with our pumpkin, zucchini and leek soup we made to go with.

Filled with confidence I decided to whip up some rolls tonight and went with a wheat/rye combo which was also very successful :D
The wheat/rye rolls where the bun for my yummy dinner of paprika sprinkled chicken and zucchini, red onion and rainbow tomato salsa with some organic fetta burger and homemade oven chips.

I never thought I'd get so much enjoyment from something so simple. I cannot wait to see what we make next.

Waiting with excitement for my babies.

Am I the only one who find waiting for seeds to germinate really exciting?

And then when/if they do its such an awesome feeling if you haven't grown from seed before you really should try it because its even more rewarding I find.

At the moment 90% of what in my veggie patch I grew from seed, which includes tomatoes, rainbow silverbeet, beans, corn, pumpkin, zucchini, beetroot and our onions which of course we already harvested well before the new year.

My kids are Turing out to be keen gardeners like PB and I and for them to watch the transformation is really cool, they find it super interesting and I think it really makes them understand the work involved in producing good food.

My goal for this year is to grow as much as I can and to make sure I continual plant so I have a constant supply.

Here's what I've got on the go at the mo and yes that tray on the left isn't very well labeled but that's how I roll... Who doesn't like a surprise haha.

I'm really looking forward to the beautiful purple cabbages in the bottom picture. They are just beautiful.

I'm back!!! And it feels good.

Hello! It's been a while huh? Sorry about that but I got lost for a little while and needed to rediscover myself and my passions and also remember why I started blogging in the first place. So here I am :)

A fair bit has changed since I last visited here, lots actually!! I'm not sure how to fit it all into one post!

Little miss H turned 1 in nov which also marked 12 month of beautiful breast feeding for us which is fabulous and we are still going now at almost 15mths.

Papa B started a new job

Mr W had his 5th birthday and is now a big kinder boy which he loves.

I turned 25!


Miss L turned 4 and her and Mr R have both started the kinder program at child care one day a week they love it.

We have done some reno's and made changes to our garden, expanding the veggie patch's.

I got a Thermomix!!!!

I unpublished the Facebook page which I think I'm ready to publish again, I realised I had really lost focus of what I was doing. In real life and on the blog.
I feel like I hadn't really been in my body for a while and didn't know what I wanted or where I was going when I realised I really should just be living in the now. So I took a break for certain things in my life until I had gotten back on track.

I'm looking forward to sharing 2013 with you as we progress on our journey to a more natural lifestyle.

I'm putting a lot of energy into expanding our edible garden and making sure we have a continuous supply I had put this gardening on hold for a while as we weren't sure on future plans to move to a bigger block and more rural location ect and I was feeling like it would be a waste to put in so much energy here only to move in 12 months time but a good friend of mine changed my perspective she said to LIVE THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE NOW!! Don't put thing on hold just encase you do this or that or the plan changes so that's how I'm going to try and live 2013.