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In My Kitchen is a wonderful monthly series hosted by Celia from Fig Jam and Lime Cordial. Head over to her blog for a full list of the participants.
In my kitchen this month are…
…some beautifully scented dried lemon myrtle leaves from my mum’s tree,
…a new cookbook by the inspiring Jack Monroe,
…a lovely bag for my farmers’ market shopping sewn by a friend of my mother’s,
…a big jar of yummy macadamia maple toasted muesli that I love having for breakfast with berries and yoghurt as the weather warms up (I’ll post the recipe soon),
…my super duper huge new blender which pulverisers anything and which I love 🙂
…and finally, two huge pots of dried and glace fruit (soaking in one litre of brandy), waiting for next weekend when they become Christmas cake!
What’s in your kitchen this month?
In Search of Golden Pudding 
a princess dress cupcake cake for my daughter’s b’day party – if it turns out!!!!! 🙂
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Lovely – make sure you show us some pics of your creation!
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Your kitchen is full of tantalizing aromas. I love the dried fruit, soaking in a litre of brandy. Wow please send me a slice of “that’ cake…..
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I’d love to except I have a feeling Canadian customs might not like the idea 🙂
I’ll just have to post the recipe and you can make it yourself…
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Please post it early….I look forward to!
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Your bag looks fantastic – nice and big! I love the sound of your muesli too, and of course, a new blender is always exciting 🙂
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thanks Kari, yes I’m having a bit of fun with how much more power this blender has!
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The market bag looks wonderful as does the produce in it! Muesli, fruit and yogurt are one of my favorite breakfasts. Happy Christmas baking.
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Thanks for stopping by Gretchen! Yes, I am looking forward to all the baking 🙂
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Christmas is sure going to be a tasty affair at your place.
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thanks!
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On elitre of brandy? Fabulous- just eat it now!
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tempting, but there are four friends all expecting their share unfortunately 🙂
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Beck, snap indeed!! x 2 !! Firstly the colour of your blender is the same as mine! and Secondly, I just started my ‘boozy fruit mix’ too. ‘Tis that time of the year! I like the sound of your macadamia muesli as well. Yum! Kirsty xx
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1 Litre of brandy! Wow. That’ll certainly get everyone in the Christmas spirit – literally!
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There’s about 10kg of fruit too, so it’s not quite as bad as it sounds 🙂
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I’m loving the sound of that cake. Now which recipe is your lucky family having this year?
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All three of course 🙂 However, this fruit is for the recipe from my lovely MIL – which I will hopefully post soon!
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10kg of fruit for one cake? And how many tins will that make?
I am moving away from my trad suet pudding to a butter based pudding that I tried and loved last year or the year before. Glad you’ve reminded me to get into the spirit. ☺
Only a month and a half till Christmas!
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Not one cake, friends come over on the weekend and we’ll make one each – five or six in total…
And yes, definitely time to make pudding 🙂
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What a lovely lot of dried lemon myrtle leaves! What are you planning to do with them?
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Apart from tea, I’m not entirely sure…I’ve had great lemon myrtle yoghurt, so something like a lemon myrtle and honey pannacotta perhaps?
I also thought of grinding them up and adding to shortbread for a very Australian Christmas twist…
Any other ideas?
Beck
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I’ve got everything ready for my fruit mince for my Christmas cake in a bag by the stove, I’ve also got some dried fruit that’s been soaking in Chartreuse for two months that I think I’ll add. Do you have a recipe for your fruit or do you wing it?
I love your bag, what a great size for the markets.
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I do have a recipe (for the cake, I assume that’s what you mean?) and plan to post it after we cook the cakes this weekend 🙂
The fruit in chartreuse sounds wonderful, that will add a great flavour 🙂
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G’day Love lemon myrtle and one cannot have too many cookbooks!
Thx for this month’s kitchen view also!
Cheers! Joanne
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thanks Joanne!
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Beck, love the homemade shopping bag but what really caught my eye was the Jack Monroe book – she’s such an inspiration. How are you finding the book?
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She’s fabulous isn’t she? I would have bought them both anyway just to support what she does! The first book was particularly interesting as a record of that period of her living on almost nothing, though some of the things she uses I wouldn’t tend to use i.e. the tinned vegetables, rinsed baked beans etc. Interestingly some of that stuff seems a lot cheaper in the UK – I think fresh ingredients would be relatively cheaper here.
The new book is arranged seasonally, and has a lot more fresh veg recipes, but still has the usual emphasis on cheap cuts of meat incl offal, smoked fish, and great titles such as ‘come-to-bed carbonara’! It basically covers a year from July 13 to June 14 and has little snippets about her life, so including her developing new relationship etc which is rather sweet 🙂
A few recipes I’m particularly keen to try include Baba gosht (‘cause I love eggplant); Banana, tea and chickpea curry (just because it’s such a crazy sounding combo!); carrot and nutmeg rice pudding (carrot cake flavouring in pudding form); Xmas tree biscuits (to make with the kids); lemon and thyme semi-freddo (because yum!); sardine rillettes (always nice to do something new with sardines); and bannocks and tattie scones. I’ll let you know how I go!
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love your new blender. it looks great. and how clever of you to get started on the xmas cake. i have done nothing about xmas at all! not even a list.
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Hi Sherry, thanks for visiting. I really enjoy Xmas baking so coming up with lists of what I’m going to bake is my relaxation, not a chore 🙂
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Yum… your macadamia nut muesli looks amazing!!! I’ve not heard of Jack Monroe, so that has peaked my interest 🙂 thanks for sharing! Liz xx
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Thanks Liz, Yes it’s worth having a look at Jack Monroe’s website – a very inspiring young woman!
thanks for visiting, Beck
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Seeing a lot of soaking fruit in these in my kitchen posts this month!
The bag from a friend for the markets is just lovely 🙂
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thanks Sandy! And more to come – plus lots of butter and chocolate…yay December 🙂
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Love the new blender, which brand is this one? I’m saving my $$ for a good blender that does more than just blend. Looking forward to your muesli recipe too. Great seeing you at IMK, see you next month
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thanks Nicole, it’s an Omniblend V, one of the super speedy ones but at the cheaper end i.e. less than half the price of a Vitamix! And I am planning to post the muesli soon 🙂
thanks again for popping by!
Beck
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