Prizegiving was held today, and the Palmers featured well in the dishing out of awards with Lauren taking the Player of the year for the Groovy Girls and Kyla being named Sportsperson of the Year for the Eagles. Both were well deserved and very well received.
Following the prizegivings today, we are due to head off to the Mavericks (Braden's team) end of season do, with a plate of finger food. This became a good opportunity to try making something a little different. Here is what we are taking:
These are from an idea that I saw while looking at cooking websites, and really appealed as a bit of a fun dish. They are in fact cupcakes rather than burgers, and are made from plain cupcakes with a slice of chocolate brownie for the meat patty, with red icing for tomato sauce and yellow for cheese slices. Sesame seeds on the top complete the look. Hopefully the kids won't find them too weird to eat.
Other things that have been happening lately?
Well, further to my last blog entry about Kyla and cross country running, she went to the Norwest regional event where she placed 5th. She was thrilled with this, and it meant that she was also selected for the Norwest team entering the Auckland Champs.
This was held in Pukekohe and is for teams from right across the greater Auckland area. Kyla placed a very commendable 32nd in her race (there would have been over 100 in her race), beating Daryl's school days effort of 33rd! She was very happy with that.Well done Kyla!
I am still making nearly all our own bread, and one day while making rolls for lunches, thought I would try something a bit different for my own lunch.
It involved a small baguette, which I then pressed a wooden spoon handle into to form a groove.
Into this groove went basil pesto, halved cherry tomatoes, then a sprinkling of grated mozzarella, which was baked until it looked like this:
Very yummy, and I will do it again, hopefully in a few weeks it will be my own homegrown cherry tomatoes and maybe even pesto from home grown basil!
