Oh Donna

Well I had a thought about what to do with this blog. Actually, it was a thought hatched by my husband and a good friend of mine, and inspired of course by a fairly recent movie. Hopefully it will be fun.

I live in a rather remote part of this lovely earth and am very blessed with V-SAT for my internet.

I shop for my food every two months, putting mostly everything in the freezer to make it mould and ant proof. I get my vegetables flown down from the highlands each week, along with the vegies comes the eggs, which sometimes get left behind.

I love Donna Hay magazine and now, because of some very generous friends (thanks MAG), am a subscriber. Every two months I get said magazine and drool over the “real” food that is pictured and read through each recipe longingly looking for one that I could possibly make here. Surprisingly I have been able to successfully make a number of recipes, some with minor adjustments and they don’t turn out half bad.

To make myself take more advantage of these magazines, which I love and to give myself some accountability, I am going to attempt to make as many of the recipes as possible from these magazines that come my way.

So every two months or so (the mail isn’t too reliable here) I shall scour each magazine and see what I can do. Then I will write about it here in this blog, my triumphs and my, umm, downfalls I guess.

As a mother of a 5 mnth, old whose life is already quite chaotic and stressful trying to live in another country and raise a child, I am not going to make more work for myself, it is to be fun. So I won’t put a number on the recipes I will be attempting, I’ll just see what I can do.

I have actually already mentioned on recipe that I was able to make. The, ‘Coconut pancakes with banana and passionfruit’, in my opening post were courtesy of this months, ‘Donna Hay Mag, issue 49 Feb/March 2010 “Summer Cool, p. 86.”’ All three of those ingredients are in abundance here. I didn’t have the caster sugar but the sugar I used, which in Aussie speak is the equivalent of raw sugar, was just fine.

Note to self; must ask for fresh strawberries to be sent down on next weeks plane. I want to attempt to make, ‘strawberry swirl semifreddo’. I have to keep telling my husband that it has nothing to do with Freddo Frogs.

Hopefully the eggs will make it down this week, it’s a bit hard being eggless.

I still have no idea what I am cooking for dinner. It is 3:40 in the afternoon, incredibly hot mind, the baby has just gone back to sleep (ah blessed silence) Food is in a bit of short supply at the present as we haven’t been shopping for over 2 mnths now. Maybe on Saturday (cross fingers) we’ll hit the nearest decent grocery shop, which happens to be down the rocky, dusty, windy road, 3 hours away or a 20 min flight. I’ll take the flight option thanks, particularly as my husband will be doing the flying.