Garden of Bliss

Day blooms

with colour

with movement.

Sunlight brightens

and dapples.

Simple bliss.

Live for today

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

Sai Baba

Have a wonderful birthday week Princess!

Life is an ocean

Life is an ocean, love is a boat.


In troubled waters, it keeps us afloat.


- John Mc Dermott -






Enjoy the song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAoVzsH9ESU

Sunday lunch

Tried a couple of new recipes for birthday lunch - Ham and cheese frittatas, cheese and roasted vegetables quiches. Thumbs up!

Frittatas
300g ham - thinly sliced or shaved
12 cherry tomatoes
6 extra large eggs
1/3 cup lite cream
1/2 cup light tasty shredded cheese
6 basil leaves - torn into 3

1. Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease 12 hole regular muffin pan.
2. Line each hole of pan with ham, covering well so there are no holes. Place tomato in centre of each.
3. Mix eggs, cream and cheese together in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Pour in around tomatoes to fill cups. Scatter over basil.
4. Bake for 15 mins or until puffed and cooked.
Makes 12.

Quiches
1 red capsicum diced
1 small carrot, peeled and diced
1 zucchini diced
150g sweet potato, peeled and diced
2 tbsps olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 tbs fresh chives finely chopped
1 cup grated light cheese
2 sheets frozen short crust pastry

1. Place vegetables in a baking dish, drizzle with oil and season to taste. Bake at 200 C for 25 mins or until cooked.
2. Combine eggs with grated light cheese.
3. Cut 18 pastry circles using 6.5cm width pastry cutters and press into lightly buttered patty tins.
4. Place 1 tblsp vegetable mix into each pastry case and pour over egg mixture.
5. Bake in a moderate oven at 180C for 20-30 mins until set and golden brown.
6. Serve hot or cold with relish or chutney.

Time is

Time is 

but the stream
I go a-fishing in.

I drink at it;

but while I drink,

I see the sandy bottom

and detect how shallow it is.

Its thin current slides away,

but eternity remains.

I would drink deeper; 

fish in the sky,

whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

Thoreau, Walden

Forest mist

Natural Arch

Languid hot summer day
stormy sky
panting puppy
dreaming of cool forest mists
and pounding rain.