While I was trying to contact my subconscious, I sat for a bit in the study contemplating the recipe book shelf. On the left we have the art gallery volumes – the glossy coffee table numbers from restaurants around Australia. Beautiful to look at but unfortunately my culinary skills and ability to source the ingredients prevent me from actioning any of the recipes I may like.
In the middle of the shelf, Bill Granger and Stephanie Alexander. Books which get a lot of use.
And to the right.
My well thumbed Australian Womens’ Weekly (a magazine that comes out monthly, Australian Womens’ Day comes out weekly – go figure) recipe books. Mostly from the baking and sweet end of the AWW culinary spectrum.
In the kitchen, we have the every day collection.
Lots of Donna plus files of recipes I’ve hoarded from magazines, the paper, the net. Conveniently located above the tea and coffee. Caffeine and cooking are fine bed fellows.
The muesli box. With my index card of the adapted muesli recipe. I find it easiest to keep all the ingredients in one box – with a couple of bay leaves to keep the weevils at bay. That’s not quite alliteration but it’s funny for a Saturday morning.
And we’re ready to start. I wish I’d waited until later in the morning to do this. There wasn’t much light at 6.30am this morning so I had to bracket my exposure and it looks a little odd.
4 cups rolled oats, 2 cups barley flakes. 1 cup bran cereal. Plus a 1/2 cup or so sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds.
I store mine in a flip top cereal container and the Mr SSG takes the little boxes to work for breakfast during the week. I visited his office once and nearly tripped over several boxes of Weeties, stray cereal bowls and pairs of havianas. Apparently people who Work In The City eat breakfasts at their desks quite alot and look after their feet by wearing thongs around the place when they aren’t Client Facing. It made corporate Australia look much more human to me.
