Let's Bake

Do you ever buy cooking magazines like Taste, Better Homes & Gardens because you where going to make what was on the front cover and just never got around to it?? Me too, I also have a stack of baking cookbook's that I am yet to open.

I have gone through some of these books & magazines and flagged the recipe i would like to try and I am going to share them with you, i will share the recipe, step by step photo's and the end result.

So of the recipes i have got on my list to make are:
Panettone stacks - Better Homes & Gardens magazine January 2013
Banana Choc-Caramel trifle - Better Homes & Gardens magazine January 2013
Triple Chocolate Mud Pie - Super Food Ideas magazine August 2012
Rose and Vanilla Friands - Super Food Ideas magazine August 2012
Rainbow Cookies - Super Food Ideas magazine August 2012
Chocolate Mint Cookies - Super Food Ideas magazine August 2012
Strawberry and Lemon-Lime Melting Moments - Super Food Ideas magazine August 2012
Creme Brulee Cheesecake - Super Food Ideas magazine August 2012
Baked Lemon Cheesecake - Super Food Ideas magazine August 2012
Cake in a Chocolate Box - Woolworths Australia Good Taste December 2011
Banana Filo Tarts with Honey Caramel Sauce - Woolworths Australia Good Taste December 2011
Profiterole Wreath - Woolworths Australia Good Taste December 2011
Kahlu'a Christmas Pudding - Woolworths Australia Good Taste December 2011
Coconut Maracron Kisses - Woolworths Australia Good Taste December 2011
Red Velvet Cheesecake - Woolworths Australia Good Taste December 2011
Gingerbread House - Woolworths Australia Good Taste December 2011

And much more from book such as:
The Great Australian Bake Off: Ebury Press 2013
Slices- A Fine Seclection of Sweets: Murdoch Books 2013
Traditional Afternoon Tea: Dorling Kindersley Australia 2013
Vintage Cakes By Jane Brocket: Jacqui Small Books 2012
Taste Whoopie Pies: Hinkler Books 2003
The Australian Women's Weekly All Time Favourites: Bauer Media Books

I hope you will join me as i try and make some of these amzing recipes and find out how well they turnned out or how I went wrong making them.

Talk to you Soon

Miss P

My Weight Loss Story

So here i go again, I am 37 and weigh 130kg that 286 pounds people, this is my biggest weigh ever and I am disgusted in myself if letting myself get this big.

 

I have tried on many occasions to try and lose weight sometimes it was with my hole hart into it and sometimes it was just because i knew i use to love doing it but my heart wasn't in it.  When my heart was in it I found some success and then I got to comfortable or the event I wanted to look good for had passed and slowly old and bad habit would start creeping back in, you know what i mean one Macca's meal wont hurt once and awhile right??   Then that once and awhile turns into once a week then ill just grab a Macca's breakfast on the way to work.
Now I am not saying its Macca's fault that i put my weight back on, it was my choice to turn off and go through drive thou.  It was not just food i was making bad choice in, I use to love going to training, I would go to Step Into Life at least 3 Times a week or more, I love kicking the shit out of the bag, getting all my frustrations out, it even helped me get the anger out over the loss of my mum, at the time is was the one this that was normal and where i didn't have to deal with everything else going on around me.

So here is am worse off then were I started last time I thought I would give weight loss a crack. Now for me it is all about food and staying motivated to keep eating and eating the right kind of food, you see I have a bad habit of skipping meals, I could not eat all day then at dinner time i would grab some take way which then i would be even more hungry an hour or two later.  But on the other hand I have days where i can pick all day and usually its on food like chips, chocolate, soft drink and lollies, lets take Easter for an example, from my family and friends I got 5 Easter eggs, all in all not bad, not to many and enough to have a little binge on chocolate.  Here is where i shoot myself in the foot, this Easter I had the opportunity it go shopping at a chocolate factory outlet store, the could of chocolate i came out of there with was disgraceful.  After splitting some of it up into gifts for family and friends (the best Easter they have ever seen from me) I was still left with 3 x 100g eggs, 5 packets of 125gcaramello eggs and 100 medium size eggs, that's right a bag of 100 eggs and still eating them as snacks.

Where to from here???

Step 1 - Time to get rid of the chocolate. I need to lock them away or better yet give them away, they just need to be out of my sight.

Step 2 - Work out a food plan.  I need to sit down and work out what i am going to eat each week including snacks and stick to it

Step 3 - An Exercise plan. Now this is not my favourite thing at the moment as I am some what restricted in what I can do as I am still recovering from surgery in December last year, But I have phyiso exercises I do and I have talked to my trainer about coming back to Step Into Life.

Step 4 - Be Accountable. You can not do this will will-power alone, reward your achievements and recognise when you slip up and why. Going forward I am now accountable to all of you and myself.

I will be working on these steps over the next week and check in with you next week.

Talk to you soon
Miss P

My Fist Blog Post

Hi, Welcome to my blog.

This is my fist Blog EVER. I am looking forward to sharing with you some of my experiences.  Good & bad and things that I enjoy doing.

I have always loved reading blogs and for a long time I have wondering if I had it within myself to write on and share with the whole world, so together we will find out.

Some of the things I will be sharing with you are…

• ·         My constant battle with trying to lose weight.
• ·         My Planner Organization, Home Organization (or lack thereof).
• ·         My craft projects like Journal Pages, Copic Projects, and Card Making
•        My Love of Baking, I have so many cookbooks tagged with recipes that I would            like to  try.

I know there will be many more things that will come up along the way that I will just have to share with you all.

 As well as this blog I will be starting a Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and Google+ accounts and maybe even a YouTube channel if I can work up the courage to go in front of the camera.   So please feel free to like, pin, share and join or whatever it is you do with these accounts (I will be learning as we go along).

I hope you enjoy what I have to share with you and I hope you will share with me as well.

Talk to you soon

Miss P