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Watermelon fight

Not quite cooking, but the cuteness needed sharing.

After dinner today, we finished off some melon which was on the final edge of ripe-ness. Mr Woofy decided that he wanted some as well…

My brother, in his infinite wisdom, decided that Mr Woofy had had enough, and took the rest away, which resulted in pining…

Pining dog = the ultimate win

Dumpling love

I'm a huge fan of dumplings and potstickers, lovely little bundles of flavoursome goodness that they are. They're relatively easy to make, especially since your local chinese grocery store will stock the skins and this means you don't have to roll out 50-odd round little skins yourself. My local stocks a wide variety of different kinds of skins - I'm not a huge fan of wonton wrappers, preferring to use gyoza wrappers or gowgee wrappers. Stick to the gowgee wrappers if you find the gyoza wrappers are a bit too thick for you.

Tuna patties

I don’t know what it is about these little tuna patties, but they’re adored by friends and family, and whenever I make a batch, they’re devoured in front of my very eyes!

My first apple pie

I went on a crazy baking binge tonight - it started at 9pm and ended at 3am. I made 2 carrot cakes, but the urge to bake continued to bite my fingers. 1 1/2 mud cakes later (2 miniature ones), and the baking bug was still tormenting me.

Then I remembered the kilo of apples sitting in the laundry, forlorn and forgotten and beginning their journey to floury status, and I decided to attempt an apple pie. I LOVE apple pie, but the few times that I’ve attempted it before, it’s gone pretty darn horribly

Tonight’s efforts, however, turned out pretty darn well!