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Belle (Beauty and the Beast) Cake

Belle (Beauty and the Beast) Cake

For Squids 3rd birthday I decided to make a Belle Dolly Varden Cake.

I didn’t have the right tin for it, but instead made three cakes and cut them down to size. Check out how to bake a Level Edge Cake Here.

For these three cakes I didn’t bother with support between the layers, I just stacked one on top of the other and hoped for the best. For the R2D2 Cake I made earlier I put a board between…

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Level Edge Cake

I had been really hesitant to try this for quite some time. Not sure if it was laziness, or my reluctance for change? I’d heard of these strips you can buy to put around the cake tin but always thought that it was an unjustifiable expense in our household. Plus, I don’t make cakes often enough to require one.

I saw the following idea somewhere on the internet. When I was preparing to bake 7 cakes…

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R2D2 Cake

We were sitting there one night, just quietly watching the big bang theory when this came on:

For a few weeks I’d been asking Mr BFH what cake he’d like me to create for his 30th birthday. He had given absolutely no response until seeing that episode, when, of course, he says “Make me THAT one”

I said “CHALLENGE ACCEPTED”. It began.…

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It's been a while

It’s been a while

We have been very busy in the BFH household, family coming to stay, birthdays coming and going, working like crazy, kids keeping us on our toes, dishes and laundry up to our eyeballs. Oh, I can’t forget the house renovations!

Last week the lights in our house shorted out. So, I switched them back on at the meter box.

5 minutes later, they were out again. I switched them back on.

They went out. I…

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Food Should Be FREE.

Food Should Be FREE.

Yep, you read right. I think Food Should Be Free. For everyone.

What if instead of gardens being made for flowers, they were made for food? If everyone forgot about the ‘lawn and white picket fence’ ideal and instead planted food in their front yard?

For all you pessimists out there who think it’s not plausible- hear me out.

Imagine fruit trees lining your drive way.. Apples, peaches, figs,…

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Our week

    I think I have writers block. 

That- or we haven’t done anything this week that’s really worth posting about.

So here. I’m going to share the most disgusting thing that happened this week.

  I was trying to be gross, chewing up a bacon & cheese roll, it was all mushy and gross- so I showed Mr BFH. All that icky, pre-digested food, in it’s chewed up glory.

Instead of reacting with the normal…

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Do you drink flavoured milk?

Do you drink flavoured milk?

I know I shouldn’t write when I’m angry. But I am. So here I go, about to irritate a whole generation of flavoured milk drinkers.

I’m angry at manufacturers. They deceive people into thinking this is something great. They hire professional marketers that use subtle and not so subtle cues to make you want to go get one. They KNOW it’s an addiction and they want you to feed into this addiction and…

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Pumpkin Sourdough!

You know when you have a pumpkin sitting in the cupboard for ages and you keep meaning to use it but never do? Or is that just us?

I had been thinking about this one for a while. I google searched a few different recipes, but none really seemed to fit. I wasn’t after a sweet bread (pumpkin in sweet things really just doesn’t sit right with me.. but I’m happy to try it one day). I wanted a nice,…

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Applying for Uni

I never thought I’d be doing this.

  Well, I just lied. All throughout school I thought I was going to go to uni. I was never quite sure what I was going to study. It was just what was done. You finished year 12, then you go to Uni.

Well, year 12 came.. I acted out, my grades dropped under pressure..and i fled. To a different state. Determined never to go to University.

But now I’ve been working……

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Milk Kefir

It’s a tangy, cultured milk drink. Milk Kefir is grown mainly using cows milk. I heard about milk kefir when I was researching how to make my own cheese. I typed into google ‘homemade cheese’, scrolled through a few different pages & came across ‘kefir cheese’.

When you research this all online it can be a bit hard to comprehend how it all works and just what the process is. There was only one…

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So, Mr BFH decided tonight was the night we were going to move our bed around. I’ve been…

So, Mr BFH decided tonight was the night we were going to move our bed around. I’ve been nagging him for weeks. He didn’t think it would work. He thought there wouldn’t be enough space between the end of the bed and the wardrobe. I say, there’s barely any walking room between my side and the wardrobe as is!

I want easy access to my wardrobe. Which, up until 20 minutes ago, was GROSS. Clothes…

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Market Day...

Market Day…

Saturday is market day for us. This being that we don’t have the fruit and veggies at a stage that we can live off of them. We are in the process of growing seasonal fruit and veg, but for the time being until we have reached that point, we will continue to go to the markets.

Our local Market runs from 8:00am to around 1:00pm and is just down the road. It has become our Saturday morning ritual…

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Hello there...

Hello there…

Well where to begin???

Let me start off by saying that the last thing I ever imagined that I would be a person to contribute to a blog. I’ve gone from an underground truck driver to well as some people say MrMum (stay at home dad). Yeah that’s right I have gone from working 12 hour shifts to doing a 16 hour shift and being on call for the other 8 hours. I’ve gone from seeing my two beautiful…

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My Battle with Rosacea

My Battle with Rosacea

So, I’ve wanted to share this for a long time. I’m hoping that in you reading this that you can begin to understand the ‘why’ of this entire blog. It started with me experimenting with different foods and environments to see how they affected my face. Then it grew to something completely different, but I still always have this in the back of my mind. Everything I do is to try ‘cure my face’. I’ll…

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Kombucha

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I just started a fresh batch. I really wanted to show you all some photos so you can see the process step by step. Kombucha is a fermented tea. It’s a bit of an acquired taste, so if you decide to try it- stick with it. Try several times, with different flavours. Experiment with different ferment times. I bought my first SCOBY (Symbiotic culture of bacteria & yeast) & starter tea from a health…

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Spot the roosters?

Lets play a game of spot the roosters… Mr BFH and I are at odds as to whether the black chook is a rooster or pullet. Any ideas? I think we have 3 white roosters, 2 pullets. They are about 5 months old.

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Easy As Mushroom Gravy...

Easy As Mushroom Gravy…

Last night was standing in the kitchen looking in the fridge what to have for dinner. Easy… chicken schnitzel with steam veg topped with a mushroom gravy.

I would be pretty sure that most people would know how to crumb your chicken if not let me know and ill give you a quick run through.

This gravy is really easy and will absolutely destroy that packet stuff you get from the super market. Ok…

Fir…

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