Styling dolls hair

So not actually food related, but handy for any of us that have little girls that love dolls!

Miss I loves her dolls, perhaps a little too much.  Their hair is always being styled and brushed and styled again and well dolls hair just isn't up to staying pretty after a few style sessions.

Problem solved!  The doll pictured above was the worst doll Miss I owned, it originally had curls but had overtime developed big fat dreadlocks.  To get the hair beautiful and smooth again I did the following:

Added to a bowl boiling water with 1.5 tablespoons of fabric softener.  Styled the hair and left to dry.

Dolly looks just like new again yay!  And I have one very very happy Miss I.

Banana Coconut Icecream

Ingredients

2 frozen banana's
2 tablespoons of toasted coconut
2 icecubes of frozen coconut cream
1 tabelespoon of toasted nuts (for topping)
1 teaspoon of honey (for topping).

Step 1:  Blend together banana, coconut and coconut cream in a food processor until there are no large chunks.

Step 2:  Serve in bowl and top with nuts and honey.

You can make many variations of this icecream by adding different things such as cocoa for chocolate flavour etc.

Pumpkin and Tomato Soup with Pesto swirl and Easy Garlic Croutons (Vegan)

Garlic and Spinach Pesto
2 tablespoon of garlic
1 tablespoon of oregano (my favourite herb).
1 tablespoon of sunflower seeds
2 handfulls of baby spinach
2 teaspoons of oil of your choice

Step 1: Put all ingredients into a small frypan and saute until sunflower seeds have toasted lightly and spinach wilted.

Step 2: Transfer to a food processor and mix till you get your desired consistency.

Step 3: I placed mixture into a large piping container to swirl it over the soup but you could use a spoon to dollop it too.







Garlic Croutons 
1 stick of Coles Brand Garlic Bread (which you'll find in the cold section with the pasta - this brand is vegan friendly).

Step 1: Preheat oven to 160

Step 2: Cut garlic bread into chunky pieces and arrange in a single layer on a tray lined with alfoil

Step 3: Cook for 20 minutes, turning once whilst cooking so both sides get crunchy.

Pumpkin and Tomato Soup

2 small Kent Pumpkins (but any variety will do).
2 carrots
1 large can of crushed tomato 810g
1.5 - 2 litres of vegetable stock

Step 1: Peel and cut pumpkin into cubes. And peel and cut carrots into 2cm rounds.

Step 2: Place all ingredients into a large saucepan (with lid) and bring to boil. Once boiling turn the heat down and simmer for 1 hour.

Step 3: Let cool slightly then pulverise in food processor until smooth.

Serves approx 6

Banana Muffins (Dairy Free)

This recipe is incredibly easy, Master O and Miss I made these with only a little help from myself. Bananas were really cheap last week so I went crazy and bought 4kgs. 2 of the bananas however were a bit bruised and quite ripe by the time they were ready to be eaten. What better way to use them up than by making muffins!

Ingredients 
2 ripe bananas cut into pieces
1 1/2 tablespoons of oil of your choice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons honey
1 egg
110g self raising flour.

 Step 1: Preheat oven to 180c

 Step 2: Using a sieve, sift the flour into a bowl and set aside. 

Step 3: In your mixer bowl add egg, oil, vanilla extract and honey mix thoroughly. Add banana pieces into mixture and blend until smooth (some small lumps is okay).

Step 4: Fold through the flour until combined.

Step 5: Line muffin pan with cases. Spoon mixture into the cases filling 3/4 of the case.

Step 6: Cook for approx 8 minutes for the baby muffins and 18 minutes of the large muffins.

Step 7: Cool on a wire rack before eating. This recipe made 18 baby muffins and 3 normal size.



To make this recipe vegan friendly I suggest using the following:
Orgran No Egg in place of egg.
Agave Nectar in place of honey.