Showing posts with label Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Review. Show all posts

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Welcome to 2014! Happy New Year!!

Ring in the New Year!

I am starting out this new year with a bang, and hopefully one that continues throughout the coming year.  I am hoping to Blog 3 times per week now that I am a WAHM with a 4yo (who is starting preschool net week), and running my business from home which I found to be thriving in the 2nd half of 2013!

My 3 posts per week I am planning them to be :
  1. A traditional post of a foodie creation, a love, a challenge or a hot recipe I want to try.
  2. An Honest & Healthy Recipe - creating or replicating a 'healthy' creation to inspire you.
  3. A business post from something I have done from my WAHM biz - Cookie Queen Kitsch'n.

This year with juggling a few things in my day to day life I have decided to make my Blog Posts more achievable, and last year with the cookbook challenge I had an epic fail in the blogging department.  I just stretched myself too thin, and I didn't cook as much as I use to, with my partner cooking a lot, and a lot of easy meals of sausages & 3 veg or pre-prepared meals (takeaway). Putting on a lot of excess kilos in the process.  So I am hoping that this year's Blog will help me shed the kgs and get our family eating plan back.... for some reason Im the only one who put the pounds on though!
Here is flashback of my 2013 in photos, where I enjoyed 3 major family holiday trips (Great Ocean Road Trip in Victoria Australia), Cradle Moutain, Bechino & our Road Trip in Tasmania, and our 4 day Romantic Getaway in Fiji, plus all the work for my wonderful customers. 2 Standout Buffets with my daughter's 4th Birthday and my surrogate Sister in Law's Baby Shower, plus some other snippits.







 

Saturday, January 5, 2013

A Cookie Queen Kitsch'n Year in Review - 2012 as it was!

Top 5 Posts (in the order from 1 (#1) to 5) :

  1. Maggie Beer's Roast Chicken with Parsnip Pear Mash
  2. Minnie Mouse Dessert Buffet Table
  3. Masterchef Mojito Time
  4. Let's Kick off the Silly Season
  5. No 1 Challenge Caramel Apple Cheesecake Slice

BIG Events of 2012 Recap in Pics:

Miss M turned the BIG 3!

She was in awe of her Dessert Buffet, see link above for all that was available for it. As I love EVERYTHING to be edible on my cakes, I even covered wagon wheels in black fondant for ears on the cap!

Our trip to Disneyland and on the Disney Wonder Cruiseship!

(New towel animal every night & was tickled pink to meet all the Disney Charcters on board and at Disneyland itself)




Billy Law's Halloween Fancy Dress Dessert Degustation Dinner

(Where we jointly won 1st & 3rd Prize for our Costumes Mad Chef & Cupcake Whore!)

Christmas Celebration 2012

 

Yes in case you haven't guessed it yet from my Facebook Page, I do indeed LOVE Adriano Zumbo and all he creates! I look forward to having you join me throughout 2013 for even greater adventures and events. Hope to see you all there with me. Mwa! xxx

Christmas Loot for a Baker....



Totally in love with my new Kenwood kMix Food Processor, its HUGE! No idea where Im actually gonna store it permanently when not in use, that is my Kitchen Aid next to it.... its massive and there is a whole thing of fancy attachments including little twin baby whisks that attach inside it to be a mixer! Wowza, can't wait to test it all out, currently in the midst of using it to make Macarons, my 2nd attempt ever. Fingers crossed very tightly!