Roasted pumpkin,spinach and feta slice

1.2kg pumpkin peeled , deseeded cut into 3cm pieces.
2 red onions, cut into thin wedges
oilve oil
100g baby spinach
75greduced fat feta cheese, crumbled
8 eggs
1/3 cup low fat milk
8 thin slices crusty bread, to serve

1 Preheat oven to 230 c Line large roasting pan with baking paper. Plce pumpkin and onion in roasting pan. Spray with oil, season with salt and pepper. Toss well to coat. Spread vegetables over base of pan roast for 18 to 20minutes or until golden and tender. Remove from oven.Place spinach over vegetables and stand for 3 minutes or until wilted.
2 Grease a 3.5 cm deep slab pan or baking dish. Line base and sides with baking paper allowing a 2cm overhang at both long ends. Spread pumpkin and spinach over base of pan, Top with feta.

3 Whisk eggs, milk salt and pepper in a jug. Pour over feta. Bake for 35 minutes or until set. Stand slice for 10minutes. Serve with crusty bread.

serves 4 (i think it serves more but that is with a salad i guess)

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What is a beautiful moment I remember? Sitting on a boat in the middle of the fjords Norway.. at midnight when it was still light..and just listening to the silence around. That was many years ago now. What is a beautiful moment recently? reflecting on that moment. Its not moving me forward but its not going back either.

How can a girl so loved, have so much hate for herself? It just floated into my head and out. I can answer that. I see my reflection and I want to change. I have abused myself with food. So why start monday when you can start today? I had a reading once and the lady said "you have taken the back seat in life with everything" How correct is she? A lot.

How to shift yourself from a mental rut into a positive light? I am listening to dads accident re-told. I have time for this. Its good for him to talk about it.. but i dont think he has ever fully recovered. Its a whole pandoras' box.. how to muster all your might into 20 seconds.. a decision between life and death. When your heart says go but your body says nO. So in some way I have seen his accident from his point of view. Somewhere he has not spoken of to me ever. He remembers everything clear as a bell. I think he should do motivational speaking.

Well I must get going and start dinner.

Simple

Found a recipe I am going to try tomorrow night. Its from one of these cooking magazines.. well a healthy one anyhow. Its roast pumpkin pie, feta and spinach baked dish. Cant wait to cook it. I am thinking of making mousaka with the eggplant mum bought home for me. We shall see perhaps a bit more reaserch on zaar will be a good thing.

I went through cooking magazines today and cut recipes out putting them into my recipe book. It started out as an art journal.. but now its full to the brim with recipes. Which of course cooking is an art in its self.

I keep having bloody flashes that i have been here and done that type of thing. Not much i can do. Maybe it means im on the right path. Not sure. These things happen. I just watched ramsays kitchen nightmares... i like that show.


Anyhow I think I might just get going now. Will write the recipe up tomorrow. night night sleep tight

Snap Happy

I got a little snap happy this afternoon... so these are the best photos of two pieces of work that i am happy with. The gold tree i must get the glass cleaned and put back together properly. The butterflies are just so pretty. I used these plastic snow like coins with some beads and a few butterflies.. i like the lay out, its in a very 70s looking frame. I felt like making it into something more than what it is.. but its too late for that now. Whats done is done.

The tree is just beautiful. The gold like jewelery i broke up and the tree leaves which i pulled off the candles around the house. All make for a lovely picture, Easy on the eye. I am not painting today. I already went for a walk and got some groceries. I have just about shopped out all this week, Its time to use the staples from the pantry me thinks. I was so tempted to make this orange and rasin pie from donna hays winter issue but mum gave me a MASSIVE lecture about my weight again. *sighs* I know she is right thats the problem. So i will have to cook more healthily. I guess i have indulged so i face the bulge.

I have here a cup of lovely strawberry and vanilla green tea. Lots of anti oxidents. I must say i am enjoying my meals more without coke. Used to hide the falvours in sugary syrup.. now we only buy i t on occasions.. which is about once a fortnight. I have to book the place for my birthday, im booking it for 12... if more come, (which i doubt) then more come.

Well mum presented to me just how much i have spent on books oe about 10years and she is probably right in saying that is well over 5grand, so.. what do I do? I'll borrow from the library again me thinks... or look thoroughly in the op shops.Sometimes there are absolute gold mine for books.

Scooter has been a real cudddly dog today, on and off my lap for some odd reason. She is usually out in the garden with dad. She shares her time equally between us. Curled up on the seat asleep at the moment. We have had her for about 10/11 years now. She seems young to me though. We love her. She favors scott if he was here.. rolls on her tummy for him all the time.

Sunny Tuesaday

Sunny Tuesday,
Feels so lovely for the weather is just great. Went for a walk, have a bit of house work to do. Im not feeling as good as I should. I bought the winter donna hay cant wait to read it, sit down with a lovely cup of tea. Im making corn pea ad corriander fritters for tea its a Donna Hay recipe:

Corn Pea and Corriander fritters (with chilli dipping saace)

1and a half cups of plain flour
1 and a half teaspoons of baking powder
1/4 cup milk
2 eggs
400g corn kernals drained
2/3 cup water
sea salt
1/4 cup water chesnuts
1/4 cup chopped corriander
1/2 cup frozenpeas
2 tablespoons of oil

chilli dippin sauce

1/2 cup sweet chilli sauce
1 tablespoon lime juice

To make the chilli dipping sauce combine sweet chilli and lime juice. set aside

Place flour, baking powder,milk, egg,corn, water salt, chessnuts, green onions, corriander and peas in a large bowl and stir until well combined. Heat oilin lrge non stick frying pan over medium/high eat add the oil and cook tablespoons of the corn mixture in bathesfor 3minutes each side or until golden. Serve with chilli dipping sauce.

makes 15.


GOt a letter from angiebear , read it. Had an article about Alexander McCall Smith in there.. about how he has opened up a small opera place in africa that will put on two shows a year. Interesting. I have to get the series off the internet they have just started to show them in england. So i hope the abc or sbs picks it up here. I love those books. All his work is just great.

I have had images from the past jumping into my head lately. Not odd. Just introspective i think. How i treated them for some reason is playing on my mind. I guess i should make myself a little more busy. I cant rest my mind from them so m taptap tapping here.

I remember a lot
(a shit load actually. )
so there is nothing i can do. Cept live with my choices. Need a hug or something..instead al i have is the smell of bleach. *sighs* It reminds me of the churchill pool... and me playing waterpolo. Not that i knew the rules really. I just remember swimming up and down getting a goal here or there. Weird i suppose. I also remember me demanding mum to buy me a stussy top for the trophy night they held.. i knew mum couldnt really afford it but she got it for me anyhow. I think I was as bad as scott.. but blind sided myself against it. U know i miss swimming so much but just feel too ashamed to go swimming.

So maybi should just do that and go. I have these angel cards which have been quite accurate... i seem to pull out the healthy lifestyle card.which says i should change my eating habits and exersize more to encourage weight loss and a happier life. I seem to pull that card out a lot. Soo i should take note. Well. Its almost 4 time to get the fritter batter together. We are having it with salad.


write more later alligator.

weekend

Spent the weekend at the Halinkas. I was as quiet as a mouse all weekend. I sat there reading and reading and reasding i finished the Banana Yoshimoto novel that was stunning. 3 love stories (not mills and boon either!) (ok?) hauntingly beautiful in the way the words just danced off the pages.

I also got this novel that is stunningly funny... called Hullaballoo beneath the guava tree. Its hilarious. I am half way through.. it brightened up my day. Its really wierd. I have the windows open and there is someone either burning off. Hmm.

Louise loved her jewelery.. which is great im glad. I wrote all my letters i have them to post off today.. I am also attempting to cook my first roast (here comes a bloody disaster if ever i heard one) lol. Anyhow... I made roast tomato soup the other night. Its 23 out there and its a good time to paint as its not cold. Now the clocks have gone back an hour.. the night will draw in closer to 6pm. Less light to paint with.. *sighs*

today i will work on shadow boxes...i hope to do some nice ones as i have that many supplies, anyhow must finish this coffee and get started...

albell

Earrings

Finally, at last all the jewelery came that we ordered from realisation creations (etsy) store. I love her one offs. Here you can see the earrings I got.They are so beautiful. I would like to get either a a gold bird pendant... gold you ask? But ally is a silver person! I know that. Perhaps a lapis lazuli pendant instead. Something gold and blue. You should see the earrings i got for louise they are so delicate and lovely.. a little flower set against a back drop of pearl... they are so pretty. Even the bracelet is beautiful. Mum is happy with hers aswell. I think i will be shopping there for everyones (that is a woman) birthdays presents. I order from her on a regular basis and have been handing out her cards.. i need more cards to hand out, as i have run out.

i'll finish this little piece here dears.

This week

This week I have been a bit side tracked. I have started painting again which is good. I have found a place for my birthday... which is Bokchoy Tang. Absolutely stunning food and beautiful interior too. I like the place. So that is where it shall be. I have to go sit down with them and ask if i can bring cup cakes in for desert. Some places are funny about it.

Also I spent the weekend going to everyones places.. it was tiring. Although I caught a taxi here and there. Went to Antz Bistro which also has more chinese food. I had fish cooked in egg white with fresh ginger and lemon. It was super nice.

I had my fill of chinese food for a little bit. I enjoyed the weekend. Im not feeling that well today.. not sure why.. just a bit of an upset tummy.