Happy New Year 2014

Twinkle twinkle little bat ...

My little dormouse has her own bag. It's pink, it's got princesses on it and it means she can grab random treasures from around the house and carry them with her.

Today my little doormouse has collected a tiny frypan, plastic piece of chicken and a wooden toy knife. She was going to put barbie in too, but her legs poked out the top. Barbie was dumped and replaced by a toy mobile phone. I think my little dormouse is going on a picnic!

Too cute, dormouse, too cute!

Pink chocolate in a bag!

Mmmmmmm chocolatey yummy goodness ... My only question is why do the Raspberry MnM's taste like Cherry Ripes?

Mad hatter popularity rising!

You know when you really identify with a concept, a colour, an idea, a flavour, and it then suddenly catches you in it's grip and takes you on a world wind adventure. That's what being a mad hatter feels like sometimes. Once I named my centre, my weirdness, my quirky humour 'the mad hatter' I started seeing beautiful images, ideas and art pop up everywhere.

I thought i should share the latest that caught my eye. Got to love this new take on Fairytale futures by Mattel "Ever After High", especially their Mad Hatter character ... Just screams "I love TEA PARTIES!"

Adorable, right? She would look super cute next to my collection of tea pots! 

Mexican tortilla pie

Tonight I had to think of something to use up a half opened pack of tortilla's ...

Here is what we ended up eating! Mmmmmmmmm .... Drool

Since I am feeling generous I am even going to add the recipe we put together.

Ingredients:

Tortilla wraps (3-4)

4 Bacon rashers (diced)

1/2 a large onion

2 cloves of garlic 

1 x can of diced tomatoes (400g)

1 x can of Mexican chilli beans (400g)

1/2 jar of salsa (or to taste)

Generous amounts of grated cheese

Steps. 

1. Preheat oven to 200degree Celsius 

2. Cook diced bacon, diced onion and minced garlic in frypan until crisp.

3. Add Mexican beans, salsa and diced tomatoes and heat through

4. Grease pie dish with spray oil and assemble! Place tortilla on the base, then alternate layers by adding a sprinkling of cheese then generous amounts of the bacon-ey salsa mix then tortilla until you reach maximum pie dish loading. Top with a tortilla and dump generous amounts of cheese on top.

5. Bake for 15minutes in oven

6. Enjoy!!!

Unfortunately now I have half a jar of salsa I am going to have to think of a use for!

Anorexic chicken

Carving a roast chicken is one of my only skills in the kitchen. I am extremely handy with using a blade to get every morsel of meat from the bones. Last night something happened, I was astounded. Legs and wings were removed with speedy precision and then my knife went to carve the breast. I scraped measly amounts of meat from the rib cage and just stood confused for a few minutes. What was wrong with this chicken? Where was all the meat? Why would any decent store sell anorexic chickens?

My husband walked past the table and noticed my confusion, 

"It's upside down"