Recipes, garden and unexpected visitor

Tuna Fettuccine

250g fettuccine egg noodles

450g can tuna, drained

1 large onion, finely chopped

90g butter, melted

300ml carton light cream

2 tablespoons tomato paste

pepper to taste

1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Cook noodles in 3 litres of boing water for approximately nine minutes.

Melt butter in pan. Add onion and drained tuna, and stir over medium heat until onion is just tender.

Stir in cream, tomato paste, season with pepper.

Bring sauce to boil, remove from heat immediately.

Stir in chopped parsley.

Spoon sauce over cooked, drained fettuccine noodles.

The elephant tongues are huge this year, due to the extra rain.



The Freesia's have a lot of flowers.

And so has the stock, this plant had only a couple of flowers last year.

Lady Flo's Easy Chocolate Cake

1 cup SR flour

1 cup castor sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 tablespoons cocoa

3 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup milk

2 eggs

Mix all ingredients in a bowl for 4 minutes. Pour mixture into a well greased 20cm cake tin. Bake in a moderate oven (180C-200C) for 45 minutes.

(I added a little oil to this mix for extra moisture)

We had an unusual visitor to our back yard a couple of days ago. It was a very friendly magpie which we believe to be a pet of our neighbours. Cheeky thing made friends with hubby, who had the food, took a mouthful and then flew home.

Take care,

xTania