New School Year

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Its finally here.  The school age children all return to the regular routine of going back to school.  You all wake up bright and early the first morning.  Fully cooked breakfast, beds made, showered, dressed, gourmet lunches packed and you are out the door with 5 mins to spare.  You watch the clock ensuring that the kids have a healthy snack to come home to and a delicious healthy dinner cooked and on the table for them in a reasonable time for them to back into bed early.

Day 2 comes around – everyone sleeps through the 3 alarms set.  You race around the house rushing to find the school shoes, make a jam sandwich for lunch, butter a piece of toast for the car ride and rush out the door 10 mins late….  Come home to a coffee and then pick up time is upon you in no time.  Stop by the shops on the way home to get something for the kids to eat, fast food for dinner and all collapse into bed much later than planned.

Welcome back to the New School Year.  Count down until the next holidays have begun…..

Lest We Forget

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25th April is always remembered as ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand.  It commemorates all the amazing Australian and New Zealand service men who fought and died, early in the morning, at the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, 25 April 1915 during the First World War.

Whilst, the dated was picked for remembering this event, we also now remember and recognise all the Service Men and Women who have and currently take care of our country.   Poppies are the recognised flower to celebrate ANZAC Day since 1920.  This was due to the colour and the blood spilled.  Poppies were also picked as they were the first flowers to bloom over the graves of soldiers in northern France and Belgium.

ANZAC Cookies were one of the food items that could survive the journey to the soldiers from their home country and still be edible.  These were originally known as Soldier’s Biscuits but after the Gallipoli landings they became known as ANZAC Biscuits.

Happy St Patricks Day!

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Happy St Pat’s Day. Enjoy an Irish Coffee before bed and cheers the to the Irish.

Thanks to http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/food-drink/the-absolutely-perfect-recipe-for-irish-coffee-131413858-237738821.html for the recipe and information.

Irish coffee was invented by Limerick chef Joseph Sheridan in 1942 to welcome Americans visiting Ireland. The travellers arrived in the west of Ireland on a cold winter night, so Sheridan added whiskey to their coffee to warm them up, telling the Americans they were being served Irish coffee.

A San Francisco Chronicle travel writer, Stanton Delaplane, brought the recipe back to the U.S. after drinking Irish coffee at Shannon Airport. It was first served at the Buena Vista Café in San Francisco on November 10, 1952.

IRISH COFFEE

Ingredients:
1 ½ oz. of Clontarf Irish whiskey
5-7 oz. hot coffee or 2 shots of espresso
1-2 tsp. brown sugar
Fresh whipped cream

Method:
Run hot water slowly over a glass mug until it’s at room temperature or hotter, and then dry it (pouring hot coffee into a cold glass could cause it to crack)
Add brown sugar to mug
Pour in whiskey
Add coffee or espresso, leaving room at top for whipped cream
*To make cold Irish coffee chill the sweetened coffee before adding the whiskey
Stir until sugar is completely dissolved
Set whipped cream on drink
Do not stir (drink stays warmer longer with the cream sitting on top)