First steps and pikelets

This morning I took the first steps to establishing our garden - I got out in our backyard and started pulling weeds. Twenty minutes later I had filled our wheelie bin and had barely made a dent in the garden bed!

Later, when Miss A had gone down for her day sleep and Mr O was happily watching Peter Pan (again), I went out with two big cardboard boxes I found. Those two boxes quickly filled with more weeds and grass, but the majority of the weeds are now gone.

Such a difference already! There's only a few weeds left, but the ground needs some work and there is still the small matter of actually disposing of all our garden rubbish. I think we might be making a trip to the dump this weekend. The fun part is quickly approaching though - I can't wait to get some seedlings in! I have a few other plans for the garden too, including planting a lemon tree. I use lemons a lot in cooking, so it's something that would definitely come in handy.

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After a busy morning in the garden I was feeling a bit peckish, so I made some pikelets for afternoon tea. They're such a simple, easy and quick snack to make, and are oh-so-yummy with fruit spread! Mmm. I replaced sugar with coconut palm sugar which not only adds a lovely flavour, but turns the pikelets a lovely caramel colour.

Sizzling away in the pan.

All cooked and spread with strawberry fruit spread.

The kidlets loved them, as did I. I ate more than I should have... oops! Miss A had a good go at hers, and Mr O who is generally pretty fussy with food gave them a big thumbs up!