Dinosaur Eggs for Dinner

Here is the recipe for dinosaur eggs that I mentioned in the post "Frugal Friday - Family Fun for Cents". I'm sure they have a more adult name, but for the purpose of getting the children to eat them, we called them dinosaur eggs.

Dinosaur Eggs

Ingredients

• 250g premium beef mince
• one onion, pureed
• 2 icecubes pureed carrot
• 2 icecubes pureed courgette
• 1/4 c breadcrumbs
• 2 Tbspn oil
• 1/2 tsp oregano, dried
• 2c flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 25g butter
• 1/2 tsp salt
• Water, to mix
• Bought pasta sauce

Method
Using your hands, mix mince, breadcrumbs and puree's together. Form into small balls and put aside.

Melt the butter in a microwave safe dish. Sift flour, salt and baking powder together into a seperate bowl. Add oregano and butter. Using a breadknife, mix until forms a loose crumb.

Add water and knead until forms a scone dough.

Divide the dough into the desired quantities, making sure there will be enough to wrap around a meatball. Roll into balls and flattened until at least 10-15cm diameter.

Place one teaspoon of pasta sauce and one meatball on the centre of each scone disc.

Wrap the dough around the meatball and sauce, sealing on one side of the ball.

Place on baking tray and bake for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees celcius or until lightly browned.

Serve and enjoy!

Frugal Friday - Family Fun on for Cents!

This week, Opa took Tinkerbell to the Bach for a sleepover. It was special time away from Cupcake, who, often through her natural exuberance, tends to steal the show.

To give Cupcake a little special Mummy and Daddy time, we decided to have a fun dinosaur themed night, based on the recent release "Dino Time".

This was $1 from the local Video Ezy on weekly hire.

 



I then had a look through my time-wasting friend, Pinterest, for dinosaur themed party ideas. Nothing was really sticking out, given we had a budget of....well....nothing. So I decided to get creative!

 

I decided, that since dinosaurs are green, I would make some green jelly and sprinkle some chocolate sprinkles on the top once it had set. Cupcake called it her "Dino Jelly". Then I made some meatballs wrapped in scone (biscuit for you Americans!) mixture and named them "Dino eggs". Add some watered down lime juice, and you have......

 

 

And look at the smile on her face!

 

All these things were made with items from in the pantry and freezer, so the cost of the entire evening was $1, time and lots of love.



Little Monsters

Frugal Friday

Sewing a monster tote

 

In my quest for frugal living, I have decided to make as many gifts as possible using items from around home. This means that there will be a lot of reusing, recycling and creative thinking going on!

 

Today's gift was inspired by a craft on Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!

 

Being in a slightly (enormous) hurry, I merely used the pictures to create my own colouring book monster tote. While not perfect, I am reasonably happy with the finished produced.

 

Drum rolls please.....

 

While I was not able to take photographs due to the camera batteries being drained, I will look at posting the process of this again at a later date once I have perfected the craft.

Each item was sourced from home excluding the colouring book and the crayons. The tote is made out of a mixture of sweatshirting, felt and ribbon scraps that were hiding in our VERY disorganised garage. All it needs is a colouring book ($2 shop) and some crayons (I have a spare packet downstairs).

Miss Cupcake watched me sewing the tote together and proudly informed me that I would need to make her a mermaid version of this tote. Hmmm. Watch the space!