LAKE GOOLELLAL SPA RETREAT: THE LAST RESORT!
JUNE 12th is the date to write in your diary NOW. Don’t miss this One Night Escape of pampering and luxury, only for Spa Members…Gift Certificates available on Sunday 1st and Sunday 8th from Spa Directors Tina and Lesley.
Included in your Gift Certificate pricing is:
- Luxury Hand Massage
- Back Care and Fitness
- Tai Chi for Beginners
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Workshop
- Make your own Bath Bomb class
- Endless chit chat with your Spa Sisters
- Healthy Juice and Muffin Bar will be open all night at your leisure!
This Special “Destination Enrichment” Evening will be something to remember for a long time, so get your tickets immediately! Casual dress code and a need for ‘down time’ are required!
ROLL AND PASTA RECIPES
Hi there…
Well I know this is what you have all been waiting for…so thanks again Megan…and here they are!
Refrigerator Rolls
NEED:
Step 1
¼ cup warm water
1 ½ sachet of Tandaco Yeast
Step 2
4 cups warm water
¾ cup powdered milk
1 cup sugar
1 cup oil
7 cups plain flour
Step 3
2 cups plain flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1tsp Baking soda
1 tsp salt
DO:
Step 1
Combine warm water and yeast in a small bowl, place somewhere warm and wait for the yeast to activate.
Step 2
While the yeast is activating, combine all ingredients from step 2 in a large mixing bowl. Mix together until smooth. Add yeast mixture to the large bowl and I cup of plain flour. Beat together until stretchy.
Leave to rise until the mixture is double in size.
Step 3
Poke down the dough then add ingredients from step 3. Combine until a soft dough is formed (you may need to add more flour). Once the dough is ready turn onto a floured bench and kneed the dough, the dough is now ready to use.
Store unused dough in the refrigerator for up to 7 days.
When baking rolls – shape rolls, buns, as desired leave on baking trays to rise then bake in 180 – 200 degrees oven for about 15 – 20 min.
Pasta
DO:
2 cups plain flour
3 eggs
pinch salt
oil
DO:
Place all ingredients in a food processor and process until combined. Turn onto bench and kneed, then let the dough stand for at least ½ hour.
Start making your pasta…
So sisters, we are all looking forward to hearing happy making and eating stories. Feel free to post some photos of your finished products on here if you wish.
WELFARE COOKING ROCKS and BREAD ROLLS!
OPEN VEGGIE GARDEN
Hi Sisters,
Marie here!
Yes, I’m blogging! Just thought I would give you a reminder about my Open Veggie Garden morning on May 31st between 10 and 12 noon. A great opportunity to come and learn about all you need to know to set up your own garden! If you already have one, come and share your tips with us!
Morning tea, (consisting of scones, homemade jam and cream, will be served. A great fun way to spend a morning with friends! (I will be wearing my best gardening outfit! So don’t miss it…)
By the way, the wheat is coming Friday morning, so if you could all come and get it Saturday, I would appreciate it! I’ll be here.
PASTA LA VISTA BABY
OK all you Pasta lovers out there…this weeks cooking night is at Megan Grinceri’s home (5 Lairbeck St. Darch) and begins at 7pm. We are making and eating homemade pasta! There will also be a quick bread roll lesson (and tasting of course!) as well as an oats recipe provided by yours truly…by popular demand!
It will be fun, tasty, educational, and enriching…of course!
Those of you with ingredient assignments all know who you are and so do we! Please be on time, so we can have an early night! Once again thanks to the Grinceri’s for their hospitality.
BLOGGERS UNITED!
Wow what a bunch of professional bloggers we now have in Warwick Ward. I am hoping we can have their links on this site so we can all check out what everyone else is up to! A great fun way to keep in touch…(is Visiting Teaching via blog permitted do you think???) Denise willingly submitted heart and home to more kids than bloggers this morning, but fun was had by all, despite being technically challenged! So stay tuned for more links on this page to everyone’s creative offerings….and hey girls, don’t forget your passwords!
CHOCOLATE CAKE for MOTHER’S DAY
Just a little Thursday treat…thought you would like a recipe that you might feel like making whether you are feeling ’storage efficient’ or not! (You’ll certainly want to eat this one, storage or no storage!)
In a large bowl mix 2 cups caster sugar, 3 cups SR flour, 1/2 cup Dutch cocoa powder, pinch salt and 1 teaspoon bicarb. Add 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 2 teaspoons vanilla essence, 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar and 2 cups cool water. Mix with a fork until blended. (Don’t over mix) Pour into either a springform pan, or rectangular ceramic baking dish and steam (or bake in a cool oven, say 120 degrees) for 1 hour or longer if middle has not set. Cool and serve with ganache, fresh berries and whipped cream. (Or ice with chocolate mint icing) This is fairly low fat (Depending on how much whipped cream you serve it with!) and quicker than a commercial packet mix. Great for people with egg allergies as well.
This is from my website, but originated from my mother who used to cook it as the standard Seminary birthday cake as it easily feeds a large hungry class of teenagers! I have tweaked it a bit and steaming it just adds moisture…you can use a bain marie in your oven to improve the texture. So thanks mum, and of course how appropriate for Mother’s Day. (Though personally there will be no storage cake on my table this Mother’s Day…I would much rather a slice of my famed cheesecake…so look out hips!)
Oh..and Happy Mother’s Day to you all!
CANSOLIDATOR
Just a quick note on Cansolidator 
Something similar is at Howard’s Storage, but it only holds 10 cans and retails for $14.95. I spoke to the owner and she will give a bulk discount, but we would need to order more than 20 as a group which would give us a 10% discount and then the discount would increase every additional 5 ordered…in one hit!
So Bev, maybe that’s an idea for us in the future!
MAY EVENTS
So far sisters,
Reserve the following dates!
Thursday 15th at 9.30 AM at our fearless leader’s home, (that would be Denise) 11 Gilpin Close, Landsdale for the ALL NEW
“BLOG TILL YOU DROP workshop”. If you have a laptop with a wireless network card in it, bring it! If not, bring something to take good notes with! For the uninitiated, ‘blogging’ is a great way to keep a journal online and also catalogue family memories and photographs, videos and so on. They are all password protected, if you want, and then anyone to whom you give the password, can access your site or portions of your site! Fantastic way to keep memories without paper, or glue! And then Old Aunty Ethel in deep dark Scotland can have a look at the kids performance/award at the school assembly almost immediately!
We will have childcare available if needed and we do need RSVP’s for this one for both childcare and catering purposes!
The following Wednesday night on May 21st the highly successful “COOKING WITH WELFARE INGREDIENTS” makes a return engagment but we have moved the venue to Megan Grinceri’s home, 5 Lairbeck St Darch. (Thanks Megan) AND Megan has promised to share her culinary secrets with us for her bread rolls/cinnamon rolls, etc…all made from stored ingredients..as well as homemade ravioli and Rebecca Coombs is also a guest chef that night with a bean recipe! (Don’t ask what it’s bean, ask ‘what is it now?’) SO bring your appetites and we will put all the recipes on this site. This will kick off at 7pm and ingredient assignments will be organised as required.
Please feel free to comment if you need any clarification and the moderator (Yes, that’s me!) will try and comment back to you with the answer you need.
Another request if you can, please pass this site on to anyone in the ward who you know needs it! So anyone working in Primary or the with the youth. We need them all…and they need us! The more hits, the merrier!
