Isa and my lunch

 

Isadora loves to eat out of her Tupperware. I love it too because she eats more variety and quantity.

Here we have leftover beans and rice from two nights ago, stawberries, grapes, cheese and saladas. Saladas are the only biscuit she will eat at the moment as Ninny and Poppy always have them and we have spent 2 weeks there.

My lunch is a little less exciting.

 

Tuna. cheese, cucumber and "Italian mixed lettuce" on pumpkin and quinoa bread. Helgas has become all fancy!!! 

I used to always have tuna sandwiches, but a recent visit to Stevie's house reinvigorted my passion!!! Isa loved them too, so another lunch option for her too.

 

Birthday dinner

Hubby's bday dinner of steak, creamy parmesan mash and a greek salad. I am obsessed with fetta at the moment! yummo!!!

Hot potato hot potato

I have mentioned before that Marco loves potatoes...and after seeing a book titled 500 Potato Recipes in the "Allbooksforless" bookshop, I was inspired to make something with potatoes....hence
BAKED POTATOES!!!

They were delicious with ham, onion, corn, low fat cottage cheese, some Wattle Valley Spinach and cashew dip and a capscium and cherry tomato "salsa".
After a very hectic day of newborn antics and a toddler decided she is going to hold on to all toilet movements, ones and twos, we also shared a beer.
I havent had a baked potato in years...actually the last time I think was at Darling Harbour food court where I developed my serious aversion to liquid cheese. Ugghh!!

Newborns and leftovers

A current theme in our house since we had kids is leftovers.
So last night we had leftover meatballs which I froze a few weeks ago, and leftover potato salad plus a hearty cup of baby spinach on brown rice.
I know I wrote it in the last post, but I really do like this potato salad. Maybe it is the chorizo, or maybe it is because I don't feel like I have been drowned in mayo.

You might think these portion sizes are enormous!! They are pretty big but I am breastfeeding and we eat at 5/5:30pm as to eat with Isadora, so they need to sustain me to 10pm at night, otherwise I snack on chocolate.

2 nights ago dinner

Me: Marco, what do you want for dinner?
Marco: Potatoes and we need some meat.

Always the answer with my gorgeous husband. He just loves potatoes. He tells me he likes them mashed, boiled, fried, baked, roasted, any way...he just loves them!!!

So two nights ago, for dinner we had a steak (which I cooked for too long, as Isa poured water on the ground mid cooking!!) and a makeshift potato salad with steamed potatoes, lightly steamed carrots and broccoli and pan fried chorizo and spring onion. It was actually really yummy and a lighter option to my standard potato salad which has heaps of mayonaiise and egg too.

For dessert we had sweet delicious watermelon. How I love summer!!

Do you like our new plates and cups from my mum for Chrissy. I thought plastic plates and cups would be a good idea considering we are a 'family' now. I would prefer we eat with the same cutlery and plates, so that the kids learn how to eat properly and as a family unit.

 

Along with mangoes, cherries and nectarines...watermelon is summer! 

Christmas lunch

No piccies, as we were too busy eating it all...but what did you have for Christmas breaky/lunch/dinner?

We had pancakes with lemon and sugar for breaky; cold ham, turkey with sage and pistachio stuffing, roast veggies, green pea and bean salad with almonds, a tomato, cucumber and red onion salad followed by plum pudding and vanilla and pistachio homemade semifreddo. Oiiieeee!!! It was only Mum, Dad, Marco, Isadora, Maya and myself so very low key. For dinner we had mangoes, cherries and panforte!! What a day of food!!
I also had some of my first alcohol for a very long time!! Cant resist a clean New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc or a fruity sparkling Shiraz. Hope Maya didn't mind too much!!

Merry Christmas to everyone. Love Mandy xx

Christmas pancakes

I read about this great idea from the blog A little delightful. The lady who writes for this blog, Bianca, has such great ideas for her family, whether it be creative craft, food, organising or art...she is very inspirational and I love her blog.

So this morning we did it, we made Christmas tree pancakes and they were very delicious. I was a little nervous about using a decor bottle to squirt my mixture onto the pan...

but it was super easy...

And although we didn't go to the next level with decorations and the likes...

they were pretty darn delicious with raspberry jam and maple syrup!!!

Might have to make something like this for Christmas breaky on Sunday. Isadora is so excited about "Christmas tree", which is actually anything Christmas related, whether it be Father Christmas, an Elf, an actual Christmas tree or even a ball ball decoration. Little Maya is not overly concerned as such...hehehe.