Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all of you!  Hope you all had a wonderfull time with your families and that you realised afresh what Jesus has done for us!

Love
Sandra
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Project 200....roosterkoek/stokbrood

As I have explained before.....we 'braai' (BBQ)in South Africa.  Any reason, any place.....with indoor 'braais' getting more and more popular, we don't even just do it in summer only anymore....it's a all year round thing now!

This is a very old favourite from when we were kids.....we used to have long sticks, and everybody got their own piece of dough and you had to turn it around the stick and made sure you secured it well, because many a childs 'stokbrood' landed up in the ashes!

We still make it from time to time, but in a more civilised way.  It is still a favourite for kids to do around a campfire though, does not matter how old they are!  But for everyday purposes, the easy way......

Buy a breads' dough from your local supermarket.  Allow to double in size, and then cut it in squares.  First 'braai' your meat, and when the fire has cooled down slightly, place your dough pieces on top of the grill and allow to rise out nicely before turning them to do the other side.

They are great hot or cold, but I don't think anything can come to a nice hot buttered 'roosterkoek'!

You do get instant ones packed in sixes in our country, but I prefer it the traditional way.  Well, sort of traditional....I suppose you can knead the dough yourself......but that's hard work! 

Project 199.....upcycle an old garden tool

I saw something similar to this some time ago, and decided that 'when I have an old tool', I was going to do it.  To my surprise my husband found one!  He accidentally through the dogs ball on the roof whilst playing with her, and found this on top of the roof!  I never had ones like this, so it must have been there from the previous owner.  What puzzled me though is that we had our roof painted not so long ago.....why didn't the painters take it off?

I gave the whole thing a good scrub and used a kitchen scourer to take off the most rust.  I then gave it a layer of modge podge, and added a piece of newspaper.....layered it with modge podge again.....then a layer of flowery chiffon material, but a serviette can work just as well.....a few more layers of modge podge, then a picture of your choice.  If I did not plan to use it at the kitchen door, I would have used a bird or birdcage, but decided on an almost stick figure with muffins.....

I've cut some letters from a newspaper to spell 'welcome' and gave it some more modge podge.  I jazzed it up with some lace, leaves, a small rose and  some ribbon.  I hung it right outside my kitchen door.  We don't get rain there, so I believe it is going to be quite safe there.  If not, well, then it will be another project!

Project 198....crochet a tieback

What boredom won't do!  I started making small apricot flowers on night duty without knowing what exactly I wanted to make.  I had two different apricots, and made different shapes and sizes.
 
Seeing them lying on one heap, I decided to make a tieback for a curtain.  I crochet a long chain with an olive colour yarn and started making leaves in different sizes.  You can use whatever is your favourite pattern.
 
I then sewn them onto the chains in no specific order.....some with leaves, other without.  I added see through white glass beads here and there in the centres.
 
It came out so pretty, I first thought to wear it around my neck rather, but I would not have anything to wear it with......so the tieback was a better choice..... 

Project 197: caramel rolls

Use half a batch of the dough for fairy buns as in project 196.

Make your filling as follows:

Mix together a caramel sauce by adding 1 cup of brown sugar, 3/4 cup of butter, 1/3 cup of syrup and half a tin condensed milk together and bring to boil to form a caramel sauce.  If you don't like it too sweet, you can easily half the sugar.  They used a different syrup in the original recipe, but it is not available here.  I just used normal golden syrup.

Spray your pan with 'spray & cook' and pour your sauce in the bottom.

Now slice your dough into strips and roll each strip in brown sugar before tolling it into wheels.  Place your wheels in the sauce until your pan is filled and bake it for 22 minutes @ 180*C.