Life Without Lemons

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE KIDS WHEN........

*Gangnam Style is played over and over and even when it's not your child rides an imaginary horse from his bedroom to the bathroom

*You can do a load of washing that contains at least 30 t-shirts

*You have cheese strings in your fridge- aka. evil, plastic sticks of doom!

*Your iPad battery is flat and your children post notifications on your Twitter account about how far their dog ran in "Off the Leash"

*You are woken up at 5.30am on the weekend (yes, there are two 5.30's in a weekend, who knew!)

*You have breakfast cereal in the cupboard that contains fluorescent colours

*You love them dearly but are counting down the hours till their bedtime

*Your iPad has a streak of jam across the screen

Also if you would like to know what "BUSTED" looks like see photo below. Alfie was caught in the act, stealing the bottom row of chocolates from the advent calendar!

We love our children, we really do, but all I can say is thank goodness for gin o clock!

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, by Elyse Chatterton

Venison and Bacon Burgers

TIME FOR THE EXPERIMENTS: VENISON

I was invited to butcher a deer, shot by a colleague from my husbands workplace. As a thank you for my help I now have a freezer full of half of the deer. I don't have a huge experience of butchering deer or cooking it so now that it's cut and in my freezer I figure it's time for some experiments with the meat.

Venison and Bacon Burgers

Makes servings USMetricAdjust Recipe (Help)

1 clove of garlic, minced or chopped finely

400g minced venison

6 slices of cooked and cooled bacon (keeping the bacon fat in the pan to cook the burgers in)

Salt and Pepper to taste

I followed the same rules for venison that I apply to my beef burgers by keeping them very simple. I don't like adding too much to my burgers and very rarely add eggs and breadcrumbs as some recipes dictate. I added the bacon to help add fat and garlic because I really like garlic in my burgers!

I used the mincer on my Kitchenaid using the coarse grinder plate and minced the meat once. I was careful not to over mix the meat and simply hand mixed until everything was incorporated. I shaped them into 4 burgers and cooked in the pan with the fat from the bacon in it.

Review

The burgers were delicious! They had a mild gamey flavour, which was very pleasing. They were moist and will certainly feature on my plate again!

Next experiment is a Venison Pie? Possibly a raised pie with a cranberry top!! Watch this space.....

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, by Elyse Chatterton

THE WHITE STUFF

I know that if you ask most people from Edmonton what they think of the snow they will pull a grumpy face and tell you they don't like it! They plan hot weather trips to escape the cold and refuse to drive any slower or more cautiously by way of protest.

The novelty has not yet worn off for us. We love the snow!

Sunday saw us hosting some friends for lunch followed by some sledging and ice hockey.

All was good until Harry took a puck to the nose and lip! We had blood and tears but he was excited to be able to tell his buddies at school about his hockey injuries. Ice hockey is sooo cool for kids here and Harry feels he is part of the crew now! Bless him and his shiney red nose!

Note also the skin missing from his forehead! That was a full speed face plant incident whilst skiing! Harry is living the winter extreme sports dream......