Reflections and Musings

  • Christmas thoughts & Sponge Sandwich Recipe

    Christmas thoughts & Sponge Sandwich Recipe

    On order from my kitchen this Christmas is my mum’s trifle recipe. It’s a traditional recipe, non-alcoholic (using homemade grapejuice to soak the sponge), jelly, custard, cream…repeat if the bowl has room. I add extras, like lots of berries (more than she would have used), grated chocolate for the top (along with the traditional strawberries… Read more

  • Grandmother’s Gingernuts

    Grandmother’s Gingernuts

    There is nothing nicer than a good Gingernut biscuit with a cup of tea! Since I wrote about the Doctor’s Wife’s Christmas Cake, From Evelyn Burgess’ recipe book, I thought I would share another recipe I tried a while ago, and luckily took photos along the way! 1962-1964 Recipe book These gingernuts would have to… Read more

  • The Doctor’s Wife’s Christmas Cake

    The Doctor’s Wife’s Christmas Cake

    For a few years we have been trying out recipes from my husband’s grandmother’s recipe book, (Evelyn Burgess, my mother-in-law’s mother). We have a couple of her books from the 50’s and 60’s. But looking at some of the recipes, I reakon some of them are probably some of her mother’s and grandmother’s favourites, passed… Read more

  • Encouragement for today – accept God’s peace, courageously!

    Encouragement for today – accept God’s peace, courageously!

    Accepting God’s peace can be a hard thing to do….because usually when you in need of His peace, you really are not in a moment or season where you have much peace at all. Your emotions can be running high along with anxiety or pain or grief…pick an emotion, we have all been there. This… Read more

  • Verse for today – don’t give up

    God calls us to stand firm, endure, to not be shaken or toppled. He pleads with us to not give up on the beliefs we hold dear. Standing true to the gospel of Jesus, never laying aside His grace, never denying the living Christ. It can be hard to endure, sometimes we cling, barely hanging… Read more

  • Be encouraged… Today’s verse – He is still working!

    Be encouraged… Today’s verse – He is still working!

    It is God, all powerful, majestic, omniscient and omnipresent, creative and faithful God, who works in us. He loves us enough to see so much potential, that he even bothers to work in us, work on our thoughts, desires, our character. He could sweep us under the carpet and start over, but no. He chooses… Read more