latest on the painting scene

Still busy with this one, but have a small peep.....

project 268.....yankee burger patties

Wow!  The best hamburger patties you can make!  

We have a national 'braai day' in South Africa.(BBQ!)  For the month before 'braai day' TV adverts start having 'braais'......  Magazines have 'braai' recipes......  Chain stores advertise 'braai' stuff in their pamphlets.....my friend having a butchery works very hard!.......and boy!....  the day of the 'braai'!.....the whole country smells like 'braai'!

I found this recipe in a 'woolies' pamphlet in the Sunday newspaper.  I saved it and made it the other day with homemade olive bread rolls......DIVINE!

500 g extra lean beef mince
1 red onion, finely chopped
100 g fried bacon, chopped
150 g cheddar cheese, grated
15 g fresh parsley, chopped
2,5 ml dried oregano
125 g bread crumbs( I save crumbs from rusks for this purpose)
1 egg, lightly whisked
salt to taste
freshly ground black pepper to taste

Combine all the ingredients and divide into 6-8 equal portions.  Roll into balls and press down to make patties.

Add  olive oil to a frying pan and fry over medium heat until both sides are cooked.  Transfer to a baking sheet and place in 180*C oven to cook for 10 minutes.

The tip was to add sliced jalapenos, ruby coleslaw and BBQ sauce on your burger with your favorite toppings.  I did it without the jalapenos.  Who could have thought that coleslaw on a burger could be that nice!

Project 267....divine chocolate pan cake!

The other day I made this pan cake.  I used my favorite chocolate pan cake recipe.  I  made a syrup on the stove top with sugar and strong black coffee....about 2 cups of coffee and 3/4 cup of brown sugar.  I added half a cup of milk at the end.  

I poured this over the warm cake after I removed it from the oven and allowed to cool down.  I finished the cake off with a tin of caramel condense milk.  I don't think I am ever going to bake chocolate cake without coffee again!

PROJECT 266...CROCHET FUNKY BABY BOOTIES

 Times have changed.  Babies are wearing  funky clothes in funky colors nowadays.  Gone are the baby blues and pinks and odd yellow or greens.  
Feeling like doing something different from the felt goodies, I bought four pretty balls of wool.   I decided to make some funky baby booties for 'die verskrikte kat'......my sisters handcraft shop.  Problem:  I did not have a pattern!
I found the basic pattern for a sole on the net, and started using my imagination.  Aren't they just some of the prettiest little baby shoes?  I just love them!

project 265...felt brooches

Being actively busy making literally hundreds of felt key rings, I sat with a lot of off cuts.  I started making small brooches looking almost like pansies with them.  Quite pretty and really only costing the  brooch clips.

I started off by cutting 4-5 petals for the back in colour 1 sewing them all together with a couple of stitches.  Then 2 petals in colour 2 which I attached on top of that and a longer petal in colour 1 again on top.  Added a few beads in the center, a brooch pin at the back and voila! 

 I've packed them in small cellophane packets and sent them all to my sisters shop! 

PS! To check out her shop on Facebook.....Die verskrikte kat....you can even order online....