Let's eat!

2010-12-30T21:23:00.001+11:00

So much food, good rels, bad neighbours, good weather that's been my Christmas 2010. Christmas Eve - spent at home with some of the family - six of us altogether, Megan,Ross, Marcelle, Paul, Frank and me. Christmas Eve dinner was, lasagne, followed by roast whole turkey with bacon,fig and orange stuffing and gravy, roast potatoes, sweet potato, beans in garlic butter, salad. After that we had fresh fruit followed by Christmas pudding with custard. It was delicious.
As for bad neighbours they don't know when to stop partying, very annoying..

Christmas Day was at sister in law's. Lasagne, roast beef, veges very nice.

2011 here we come.

2010-08-31T17:33:00.001+10:00

MMM what shall we eat tonight? I made croque monsier on Sunday, nice. Vege soup, Lamb roast and apple crumble, last night have chicken thigh cutlets tonight. weather is warming up wuhu.

tomato sauce

2010-08-28T19:10:00.006+10:00

Tomatoes are so good at the moment. I have been making my own tomato sauce. I make only about 3 bottles at a time. The taste is so much better than store bought. Last night I made eggplant, mushroom, green olive with chilli penne. mmm nice. with sauce of course. will upload image.

What the hell

2010-08-26T21:06:00.003+10:00

hey, let's just keep eating. Tonight we had swordfish, we had barramundi, pasta salad, smoked salmon, green salad, garlic bread.whew.
It was delicious. What did you eat on a thursday night?
Aldo have a great trip send me your blog details so I can follow you.

Looking for new direction

2010-08-07T10:07:00.001+10:00

Need a new dietary direction. Need to rethink everything and make an effort.

Another Friday

2010-07-30T21:47:00.001+10:00

Another Friday thank goodness. Lovely dinner this evening, cooked Bill's roast chicken with herb and ricotta, beautiful. Also cooked ricotta and spinach agnoloti mmm nice.

love Friday

2010-07-02T17:32:00.001+10:00

Tonight am cooking thin sliced veal with ham and cheese and crumbed. Pasta. Special Italian pasta I purchased in Haberfield. Yum

Must keep it going

2010-07-01T21:30:00.002+10:00

Sorry not that good at blogging.
Last weekend my husband and I went to Adelaide S.A. Had a fun time, we visited the beautiful Barossa Valley, passed thru lovely villages along the way. Will put up photos when I get the time. School hols after tomorrow. yay.

Where did the time go?

2010-06-21T10:04:00.003+10:00

I don't know. Time has flown this past week. Am looking forward to school hols. Eating like crazy will try and diet this week. Weekend food was ok. Ate out on Saturday night at Korean BBQ delicious. Sunday we ate out for lunch fish and chips and we had our own BBQ last night. Have to rein in all that food somehow. Tonight's menu 2nd daughter Jay has request chicken soup with rice ok good way to start diet.

Long weekend

2010-06-13T18:30:00.002+10:00

Love long weekends. no cooking today. We have been eating very well this weekend. Friday night was Terrys party in Riverview Hotel, Balmain restaurant upstairs. Nice food, we loved it. Last night everyone went out,except main man, so I cooked a vegetarian pasta with spinach, mushrooms, garlic, tomatoes, with tagliatelli, v. nice. in fact had it for lunch today. For main course I cooked lamb racks with baked potatoes and pumpkin, beans in garlic, and pippi, this being capsicum grilled and mixed with tomato succo boiled potato onions and of course garlic. We had fruit and cheese followed by desert, which was hazelnut pudding with chocolate sauce and fresh cream. v. nice. Not too much dieting going on. Diet starts tomorrow.

Tonight's menu

2010-06-09T21:20:00.001+10:00

In just 1 hour I made a yummy pasta soup and grilled drumsticks salad and fruit. Was quite nice if a bit plain.

Man, this weather stinks

2010-05-29T16:54:00.002+10:00

Rain, rain go away. Cold and wet weather makes me want to eat.

Man, this weather stinks

2010-05-29T16:54:00.001+10:00

2010-05-26T18:08:00.003+10:00

Maintaining. Yep that's what I'm doing with my weight. Oh well try again this week. Still no cooktop. My fry pan thingy is coming in really handy. Tonight we having burritos, so wet and miserable. Am glad I'm not going to the State of origin football.

Love Friday nights

2010-05-22T15:27:00.001+10:00

Last night I cooked fillet steak on beloved old fry pan with eggplant pumpkin mushroom and made a stack. With broccoli, carrot and asparagus cooked in the microwave. mmm lovely.

Try Cooking without a cooktop

2010-05-19T21:05:00.002+10:00

Had to get cooktop repaired as best burner refused to work. Repairmen (2 of em) came for the fourth time to repair it and cracked the glass top. AARGH! So they took it to the workshop. Hope they can get the glass.
tonights wonderful meal was meatballs (rissoles) cooked in this very old electric fry pan and mixed vegies done in the oven. Asparagus and broccoli done in the microwave with a salad and fruit plate. MMM. Should have taken a photo. I will for tomorrows meal.

Damn not a loser

2010-05-17T21:16:00.001+10:00

Seems to be no weight loss this past week. Well, move on and don't worry I will lose.

1 month anniversary

2010-05-16T18:25:00.003+10:00

Wow it's been 1 month since number 1 daughter was married. Wishh could do it all again.

Weddings and love

2010-05-16T17:45:00.002+10:00

We were visitors to daughter J's best friends wedding today. What a beautiful bride and the groom looked good too. Lovely wedding, in the Santa Sabina College chapel. Going out for pizza for din need time off. Weather in Sydney is quite cold today we have our heating on are enjoying sitting in front of the fire.

Not a lot of eatin going on

2010-05-15T16:57:00.003+10:00

Well what have we eaten this week. all dinners have been out of the CSIRO cookbooks. Last night we had the pasta bake, it was good. Wednesday night we had Beef kebabs, excellent, the harissa was fabulous. Tuesday night we chicken curry really good too. Tonight we havin a BBQ lots of protein. Will import a photo of it later on, now that camera is charged.

Monday- any weight loss?

2010-05-10T19:04:00.002+10:00

End of week 1 and have lost 1.1kg. Tis because of Mother's Day, my loving husband took all of the family to Dixon St for Yum Cha. Was good, but not on diet plan. Was a lovely enjoyable day, Mother's Day. Happy Thursday fish curry was the best. Lamb chops this evening.

So sick

2010-05-06T13:12:00.002+10:00

Have been v sick for last two days. I haven't been to work. I saw on ACA last night that there's a new CSIRO Diet book out. Will have to look at that asap. Last night we ate pasta as was not well enough to cook excellent dinner. However, it was pretty good. Tonight is fish night on Happy Thursday! There is a great recipe in CSIRO book number 1 for fish curry, might cook that.

Don't feel well today!

2010-05-04T17:29:00.003+10:00

Have been sticking to lifestyle plan but unfortunately have a cold or something. I've had the flu shot. Feel rather ordinary. Food is so good on this plan. Number two daughter J cooked last night, it's me tonight. Chicken hot pot, look's good hope it tastes good too.

Honeymooners home.

2010-05-03T09:30:00.004+10:00

Yay. The Honeymooners are home. They had a great holiday in NZ. They bought us gifts- I will post a piccy as soon as my camera charges up.
Had a good breakfast on Day 1 of lifestyle change diet. We ate the yummy ice-cream cake, I had two helpings. If you want to join me we can get healthy together. Post a comment.

Dieting

2010-05-02T17:18:00.001+10:00

Ok here’s the thing. I need to lose weight. Who doesn’t? Have consulted my Dr, had a look at and have already done Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and many other diets and diet books. So I’ve decided to use my blog as my diet motivator. Is this original? Doesn’t matter, this is how it’s going to go. By following the CSIRO total wellbeing diet books 1 and 2, I will lose weight the correct way.
Today I’m going to read up and tomorrow morning will organise my week’s menu and food shopping.
I will not break copyright by reproducing anything that’s in the books to my blog, although I think ‘fair dealing’ will come in here.
So how much to lose? Current weight approx. 69kg. BMI= 26. waist circumference = 89.5cm. Whoah! I have to get this under 88 at least. I think a good weight for me would be around 60kg, I figure this will take 6 months. Starts tomorrow because today am having ice-cream cake for son's birthday.

Wuhu Weekend

2010-05-01T08:26:00.005+10:00

Lovely dinner at Flemington Noodle House on Wednesday night, Megan said it's a diamond in the rough., and so it is. We had summer spring rolls, they had prawns and vegetables in them, eaten cold. Hot spring rolls, salt n pepper squid, a beef dish, a chicken dish, duck and noodle soup to finish. Delicious. OOPS silly me I forgot to buy a birthday cake, ugh how could I forget that.

Will have a lovely cake over the weekend. Perhaps one like this.

Eating out again!

2010-04-28T18:09:00.003+10:00

Great! Another meal out!A Noodle House in Flemington for number one son's birthday.

Monday Public Hol

2010-04-26T13:38:00.003+10:00

What we going to do today? Have tidied house, done the laundry, the ironing, marinated the steak and ribs for bbq dinner and made a slice for dessert. Time to relax a bit.

A long weekend of food

2010-04-26T13:21:00.003+10:00

Marios was good. We enjoyed the food. On Saturday we went to the Seymour Centre saw the play 'Codgers' which was hohum. We ate at the Duck and Swan pub -was ok food- nice chips. On Sunday we went to the Beresford pub for two-up and son's birthday celebrations. We decided to eat at home so I cooked chicken and mushroom ravioli followed by lamb chops with rosemary and french mustard. Followed by fruit.

Mario's for dinner

2010-04-23T19:18:00.001+10:00

I am not cooking tonight. We are going to a restaurant/pizzeria in Croydon. Good atmosphere, right near the main city train line, very crowded and great pizza.

tonights menu

2010-04-16T16:42:00.002+10:00

I am going to cook gnocchi with napoiltana souce and veal scallopini and salad with a fresh fruit plate. What are you cooking?

Wedding tomorrow, time has gone so fast. Hope it's a good day.

Julie and Julia

2010-04-16T16:36:00.003+10:00

Watched the movie Julie and Julia, and realised that I have the cookbook they are using. I have had it for at least 20 years. Renewed my acquaintance with it by cooking cream of mushroom soup, delicious.
For lunch tomorrow will not have pizza but will make sandwiches, have a cheese platter, fruit platter, lebanese sweet platter and champagne. Sound like good food?

Lesseet!

2010-04-14T11:43:00.006+10:00

Well, my beautiful number one daughter, Marcelle, is getting married on Saturday. Big day. Mmm. What to have for lunch for approx. 10 people. Something easy to clean up, will use paper plates, cups, perhaps we'll have some champagne or maybe sparkling water. I think it will be pizza, fruit platter, tiramisu or baklava. Sound like good food?

How quick did that go?

2010-01-24T17:35:00.002+11:00

Back from 2 weeks on Main Beach, beautiful weather, lovely food, have added a couple of kilos to my waistline as well. It's a bit hard getting back into the groove of housework. etc. Ah well might leave it until the weekend (next that is).

Two weeks in paradise

2010-01-08T21:48:00.003+11:00

Yay! a couple of weeks away. See you then.

2010 coming up

2009-12-28T11:28:00.004+11:00

Happy Holy Innocents' Feast Day.
Christmas was great. We went to the most beautiful midnight Mass at Holy Innocents' Church in Croydon. It was a celebration. I wish everyone all the best for the new year, with many blessings on you and your family. Come back and visit my blog soon. PS. Best wishes from Beau too.

Blogging after Module 10

2009-12-07T22:56:00.002+11:00

Just thought I would come back and have another look at my blog and I realise that I have almost forgotten everything I've learned. I will have to continue a blog in some way and use all of the web 2 tools otherwise it will all be gone.

Module 10:

2009-11-03T17:06:00.003+11:00

Blooms Taxonomy is a little over my head being a Library Technician, I always thought it was blackline masters, anyway I can't comment on that. I have had a good look at Wetpaint, am familiar with Youtube and TeacherTube. I am working on a Wiki for upper grades in the library for next year.

I have really enjoyed all the modules and I was only limited by my own imagination. I have viewed and commented on a few blogs and have a good few that I am following, including a blog about quilting. Blogging is a really fun thing to do. Many web 2.0 features I am well acquainted with such as Facebook and Twitter and Scootle (although) I know more about it and how to use it now. I loved the digital storytelling, Toondoo was great fun, (amused my daughter and her cruising friends) with my Toon. I loved Glogster and Flickr, all of these have added to my technology knowledge base and my enjoyment of it. Thanks to Helen Christou and Scott Hansen. I just want to keep learning so maybe there's Modules 11-20 in the future.

Module 10:

2009-11-01T17:11:00.002+11:00

This is great fun.
My daughter just got back from a cruise in the Pacific and she said the ship was overrun with middle aged Aussie women who were out of control.
This is one episode she told us about.

Still working on Module 10. I don't want to miss anything so will get back to you on this. I'm really enjoying looking at other peoples blogs, so much fun.

2009-10-26T14:29:00.002+11:00

This image was sent to me by a friend. It has the caption " If you can't find the book you want, you're probably shopping at the..."

Module 9:

2009-10-21T17:15:00.004+11:00

I just realised that I have Scootle on my favourites on the library workstation. There is so much to look at, this may take some time. Today i had a look at items available about primary schools, in photos and videos. I found it v interesting.

I have created a learning path in Scootle and found the possibilities endless. The thing about social networking is that primary school aged children would have limited access at home to it and even less access from school. I agree with Nigam ( Chief Security Officer - My Space) that even though the term social networking is new, the concept behind it is not, things like creating a community, sharing content and collaborating with others has been around for centuries. At school we continually warn parents to be vigilant when their child is using the internet because there is real danger on a lot of social networking sites.

I have used Facebook for quite a while and I am still v cautious when someone I don't know wants to be my friend. Twitter, well I'm not sure that I am that interested in what people are doing 24/7.
Anyway, for our students to use these sites I suppose we can't scare them silly with too much emphasis on safety. I have enjoyed working on this Module.

Module 8:

2009-10-16T12:47:00.003+11:00

Ok, RSS feeds - was a fun activity for me. I am not sure about usefulness for primary kids, but then they constantly amaze me with their tech knowledge. I joined a few feeds one is a Recipe feed. For when I need something interesting for dinner or as in this case brekky. 'French Toast Fingers'.

Module 7:

2009-10-14T20:52:00.006+11:00

Well, delicious has been around for a while now, the Librarians listserve has been telling us about it for years. I have now learnt something about it. It should be useful. I've been searching for blogs to follow and write a comment on but so far I found 20 up to Module 1. Ok found a few to follow, they are so good, very professional.
Delicious. Well I think that I now have hundreds of items bookmarked and I think this will take some time to sort through. This will be so useful for organising my Library downloads.

Module 6:

2009-10-14T13:56:00.006+11:00

1. bubbl.us - This is great fun. I think I will be able to use this with Library monitors at some point throughout the year.

2. Glogster, I love this. I am sure this will be used in the classroom and at home, for projects at school or fun at home on wet days.

Good - bye Twitter! - Miley Cyrus

2009-10-13T11:51:00.001+11:00

Sometimes we might be better off without Twitter.

Blonde @ library

2009-10-09T17:50:00.001+11:00

2009-10-07T13:05:00.007+11:00

Module 5:
I have viewed many vodcasts for use on my blog. I have completed this module now and yeh it's really time consuming.
Trying to eliminate vods that don't conform to school standards becomes a bit tedious. Vod and podcasts, using itunes (have been downloading music to ipod for years) and they are interesting, but really I have been using these for sometime. At school we will be able to discuss it and could probably make a vodcast for the intranet but the privacy issues won't allow putting images of kids on the net, and to actually have access is another matter. I have uploaded some videos, i think they are funny. I think Digital storytelling would be fun to try, perhaps for making our own fairy tale etc.

Shared Reading

2009-09-09T21:30:00.003+10:00

Originally uploaded by Helen Mangione

This is a photo I've uploaded from Flickr. Taken in Koh Samui, Thailand earlier this year.

Module 4

2009-09-07T20:41:00.001+10:00

I already had a Yahoo account so I was able to get on to Flickr without too much of a problem. I am enjoying selecting photos to share, next step to upload them.
Well it was easy to upload a few photos. I have been looking at other photos on flickr, this is great fun. Flickr could be used to store 'some' school photos but there's the privacy issue to consider. I think Flickr has been blocked at school level but it's fun to use at home.

Module 3

2009-09-07T20:37:00.000+10:00

I created a spreadsheet document to send to teachers about the Premier's Reading Challenge and the number of students from each class doing it. I think this might be useful for next years challenge and might make teachers more interested in lifting number of students.

Module 2

2009-08-31T12:10:00.000+10:00

Lots of new things to learn. First is to try and write what I'm thinking and feeling for public scrutiny. Trying to find a decent photo, mm not easy. Lots of decisions to make, where will I put this or that. Best thing is to view other blogs and get some ideas, hopefully fresh ones for my own blog.
I'm not sure how blogging will go in the library- lots of others do it successfully.

Module 1

2009-08-26T21:36:00.000+10:00

Module 1:
Was quite enjoyable. whilst I need to find time to do this I feel it will be very useful and that I will be able to incorporate Web 2.0 into the daily runnings of the library.