Happy Whimsical Hearts

Down on the farm

‘Chooky, chook, chook‘ ~ I can’t help but say this (repeatedly to my Husband’s *delight*) whenever chooks are near 🙂

So when we visited the family farm, where my brother-in-law has over 200 chooks you bet I was ‘chooky, chook, chook-ing’ up a storm!

And interestingly, I discovered recently from Adventure Academy Mom that the word ‘chook’ isn’t well known outside of Australia… but here we often call chickens chooks!

Master D and Little Miss Q enjoyed meeting George the Rooster and seeing all the chooks.

Eggs were collected for my brother-in-law to sell to local restaurants and shops. He’s done a great job setting up his chook farm (chookery? lol)

We also got to see some new little chicks, so soft and sweet

At the farm they also grow lots of veggies… potatoes, beans, pumpkin, lettuce to name a few…. and gorgeous flavoursome strawberries!

Happy days, Kelly

March 1, 2012 by Kelly

Happy lil ❤’s are baking # 9

What did you bake with your little ones this week? Or, if you don’t have anything new we’d love to see something from your archives 😉

Below is a linky list to join in the fun and start sharing what you bake with your children so we can inspire each other. Family favourites, new recipes, traditional or cultural recipes – you name it, we’d like to read about them and if you include the details, try them out 🙂

This week we baked corn bread. I’ve been hankering to make corn bread for ages now, although I’m not sure why??

Before we got baking, we read a bread story from Baking Bread with Children by Warren Lee Cohen. I love this book and it actually has a very similar corn bread recipe to what we used 🙂 And many other great recipes besides!

For our corn bread we used:

1 cup polenta
3/4 cup self raising flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp honey
2 eggs
1 cup milk
3 tbsp butter
1 cup corn