Cook up

I had already planned to make a pizza for lunch and while I was refilling our cereal container I read a recipe on the back for biscuits which sounded interesting plus I had everything that was needed. I could make them while the oven was on.

One thing lead to another and now I have the crock pot on with dinner cooking, a recipe from a blog that I follow call My Abundant life, a woman who feeds her family of four, Mum,dad and two teenage daughters, on less than $100 a week. As I don't really follow recipes, it will only loosely resemble hers. Should get dinner and a couple of lunches for the freezer.

I made the biscuits first, cut down on sugar and the cereal other than that, the recipe is the same! supposed to make 14 or 15, I got 21 and would make them smaller next time. I like  biscuit with my coffee but two to three bites would be enough, so I imagine that I could get about 30 by going smaller.

I had used half a tin of tomatoes earlier in the week and wanted to use the rest too much for the pizza so I made a made loaf again loosely based on a recipe from My Abundant Life, I made one of these to take away last week in the caravan and it was good, can heat it or have it cold with salad.

I made the pizza base with half SR flour and half gluten free, the GF had "bits" in it which we like. I make our pizzas in a quiche tray and then its finished in one meal rather than the pizza tray which is too much but not enough for another meal. I had some seafood mix which I added and corn topped cheese, basil and parsley and tomato slices.

So biscuits are made and put away some in the freezer, pizza made and eaten, bonus was time to clean up kitchen and pack the dishwasher while it was cooking, meat loaves are using the last of the heat in the oven and dinner is on the way. I am about to head to the sewing room and see what else I can make in there. This weekend is Bathurst!!!! so there will be the sounds of cars for most of the weekend and the TV stuck on one channel, not that I mind really its only one weekend in the year.

Kingaroy Kitchen

This is a factory that makes biscuits and is open five days a week and they run tours free three times a day. We arrived just before the second tour of the day and it seemed that it was morning tea for the workers, We were invited to help ourselves to tea or coffee and a biscuit until the tour started n about ten minutes.

The supervisor took us around, we did have to don attractive looking hair nets, we went into the kitchen were the workers were making choc chip biscuits. That was their four batch of biscuits for the day at only 10.30am.

Its run by Endeavour and was set up by a lady in the 80's to employ some of the disadvantaged people in the area, now there are 28 workers and it was great to see that they all had their own work to do. One guy likes to work on his own and he was stamping the mounds of biscuits ready to go into the ovens. He proudly showed us that he has fifteen on each tray.

The trays then went into an upright oven, wheeled in and out, ten minutes and then wheeled into another unit to cool them, from there they are placed in boxes ready for packing.

The kitchen supplies biscuits to major hotel and motel chains, they also have a contract to supply lunches to the mines around the area, that was done in a separate area and they also have another kitchen which wasn't operating just then which is a gluten free kitchen.

We bought a few packets of biscuits on the way out, one pack that they do is six different biscuits and there is six to eight of each in a large pack. We had to wait for one to be prepared for us as they had sold the ones that were on the shelf when we went in. I think that pack was about $8.