My younger sister finally finished her HSC. Wohoo! I rang her yesterday and I think she was still worried about what I would feed her when she comes to stay in Brisbane with me. I think when I told her that I made French toast for breakfast she was pretty impressed. I made French toast for her many years ago. My recipe? What recipe? It involved an egg (maybe 2), a dash of milk and some cinammon. Then I doused it in maple syrup and in her innocent young mind she seems to remember it as the best thing ever (my words, not hers). Since I had half a sandwich loaf sitting in my fridge I decided to make French toast - since I eat my toast at work and don't need to make sandwiches, buying bread is sort of a waste, so I had to buy half a loaf (which makes it more expensive).

I know I haven't made a recipe from The New Best Recipe book for a while now, but I have not forgotten all about it. I still flip through it every now and then. I thought this recipe was perfect! But I think it depends on how you like your French toast. I've always known it to taste pretty much like fried egg on bread. But this recipe was more like custard, and the egg was very subtle. I also enjoyed sprinkling some cinnamon onto it dousing it in maple syrup. Breakfast of champions!

This was one of the cookbooks that I was initially going to buy, but it has no pictures. I think half of the fun is looking at all those pictures. Nevertheless I decided to borrow it and see if it was really worth the hype.

I love a good big breakfast. When I was small I would not have eaten baked beans. I thought all beans were gross and the fact that it came from a can was double gross. But ever since I discovered big breakfast I have loved baked beans. If I had a picture of what egg in a hole look like I'm sure I'd be able to tell you if the recipe was a success or not. I imagined that it would look prettier and you would actually be able to tell that it was an egg. I might as well have made french toast (which is the plan for tomorrow). My first attempt I made the hole a little too big and the second time a little too small. I don't have a circle cutter that is in between those two sizes. I think I preferred the hole too small, otherwise you don't get enough bread.

This morning I rushed out to get my free cup of coffee from Gloria Jeans and got some change for the dryer since I did two loads of washing. Now I will be spending the rest of the afternoon ironing. Fun! God I hate domesticity. Maybe I need to find a guy who would be willing to have the babies and stay at home to cook and iron.

Today was such a hot day and I felt especially sluggish all day even though I had a nap in the afternoon. Even though the news says that the temperature is only 26 degrees, it feels a lot warmer even though it is night time and should be a lot cooler. I did not feel like cooking, but I'd finally run out of leftovers. Since I had some leftover rice I decided to make this recipe.

I have always wanted to try kimchee with fried rice. It's one of those things I have seen people eat in Korean dramas and thought "wow that looks yummy, I wonder if tastes as good as it looks". I have decided it was okay, but nothing for me to rave about. I always forget that I really don't like kimchee THAT much. I think the kimchee I bought was not spicy enough and there was not enough of the sauce since I imagined that it wouldn't be so dry. Since it was so easy to make and easy to eat I will probably make it again. Otherwise the rest of the kimchee will be sitting in my fridge for a very long time.