Friday Fill-ins!!

1. I'd like to be a fly on the wall during a certain something this Summer ;)
2. One of my most favorite romantic memories is when I was pregnant with Abby, Lloyd and I were going out to the movies in Edinburgh.  I was feeling really fat and huge and I told Lloyd that.  He responded by putting his hand so caringly on my tummy and saying "Awww you're not big!  You're just keeping my baby warm".
3. Last night, I had pasta with salad - and I made a new sauce that wasn't a big hit with anyone but me lol - oh well never mind ;) for dinner.
4. Sorry for the picture of the poop and saliva....but I did think it was interesting - I actually think thats a small jar for FIVE WEEKS worth of poop!!
5. Can we start Summer now?
6. One of my worst temptations is spending too long in bed; my comfy bed, good books, writing in my journals and crocheting granny squares is hard to resist!
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to making pizzas with the family - especially the home made dough - throwing it about and having fun!!, tomorrow my plans include taking Susannah to her sleepover party and Sunday, I want to collect Susannah from her sleepover party!

Oh to have legs this long!!

LOVED the funny mirrors today - well, at least the ones that made me tall and skinny ;)  

Guess where we went today......

Downtown Edmonton....

Canada Place (immigration) and the Shaw Centre (small Exhibition centre):

 The Fairmont Hotel Macdonald which you can read about HERE:

Australian Crunch

Yesterday I made a tray of Australian Crunch.  This is actually a square/ bar that we used to have many years ago at school in England.  I don't think it ahs any connection to Australia at all - but for some reason it was always called Australian Crunch.  It's a yummy mixture of cornflakes crushed up, mixed with coconut, drinking chocolate and a few other things and then baked...then once it is cooled you top it with an icing flavoured with drinking chocolate.  

Actually when I was at school I don't remember ever having it with the icing topping - we always had ours with a minty flavoured green custard made with cornflour (cornstarch and mint flavouring)  

It's a big hit with the kids - I made it so they could try something from my school days and have a treat to take to school in their lunch boxes!!!

Anyway, the recipe I used was:

Australian Crunch

Ingredients
3oz Sugar
3oz Coconut
2oz Cornflakes
5oz Plain flour
2tbsp drinking chocolate
6oz Margarine
For the topping:
8oz Icing sugar
2tbsp Drinking chocolate

Recipe
Melt the margarine in a saucepan. Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl (it's better if you slightly crush the cornflakes first), add
melted margarine and mix well. Grease a 7.5 inch square baking tin. Turn mixture into tin and press down firmly, bake in the centre of a pre-heated oven (Gas Mark 5, 190C) for 20-25 minutes. Leave to cool. Mix the icing sugar and drinking chocolate with a few drops of water to make a thick iced topping, when completely cold spread the topping evenly over the top and place in the fridge to set. When set cut into even squares.

I doubled the recipe and it came out fine!!

While I was making this, I also made a double batch of my usual banana bread, except I didn't have any white chocolate:  

One very happy infomercial addict...

Oh he was sooooo happy that this arrived so fast from our Airmiles!!  He opened it up and set it all up and made a smoothie straight away!!  He was explaining how to use it all as he has watched hours and hours of infomercials and knows how to use it all (he has also watched informercials on the cricut and could make some amazing things with one of those too lol - and is obsessed with Shamwows and all kinds of gadgets from tv shopping channels.  Chris jokes that Laurie will make someone a wonderful husband one day ;)

He loves the 'As Seen on TV' Store!!

We didn't see Ivana, but we DID see....

Phil!!!  ;)  

Hey Edmonton!!

Here's to Spring - to good weather, bbq's and the weather men mentioning the possibility of 23c at some point over the next 
few days :) I'm loving the temperatures we're having now - long may they last!!!! Looks like we're set to have a GORGEOUS weekend!! My annual addition of 'here comes the sun' ;)