The school holidays are a great time for things a little extra special for the kids. The latest craze seems to be mothers enjoying high tea with their daughters however I have two boys that I know would love to attend one. Then of course my two year old tea party mad daughter would not miss it for the world. I cannot take all of them, my husband and my newborn baby to a fancy pantsy high tea.

High Tea At Home With Tea Infused Jelly

So instead we have improvised! High tea at home is just as special and without the added stress of my children being loud, animal like or fretting over something being broken.

Aeroplane Jelly sent me an amazing pack of tea infused jelly, gorgeous tea cups and a cake stand to share the experience with my family. We have definitely enjoyed it. In all honesty, we have now attended several high teas (at home) and the kids have helped prepare the food.

We have enjoyed: croissants, scones, brandy snaps, fresh fruit, raspberry licorice jelly cheesecake, mini trifles, melted snowman and vanilla mudcake cupcakes. Beverages have included: tea, coffee and juice.

We used some of the new tea infused Aeroplane Jelly to create a mixed berry trifle, unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to photograph it before the kids got into it. Take my word for it though, it was delicious! The fragrant new jellies are low in sugar and calories but do not lack in taste. They are full of flavour and there is a range to suit every taste. My favourite is the raspberry licorice, which really surprised me as I am not the biggest licorice fan. Other flavours include: Peach tea, lemon tea, orange blossom, raspberry licorice and mixed berry tea.

I have included below the recipe for the Mixed Berry Breakfast Trifle.

Mixed Berry Breakfast Trifle 

Number of Serves: 8 Prep Time: 15 minutes Set Time: 2 hours

Ingredients:

1 x 9g sachet Aeroplane Jelly Light Tea Infusions Mixed Berry Tea, made to pack instructions.
1 apple or pear, grated
½ cup quick oats
½ cup almonds, chopped
¼ cup sunflower seeds
¼ cup flax seeds
1 cup yoghurt, natural

Method: 

1. Pour jelly into 4 small bowls with the grated apple or pear and refrigerate until set.
2. Mix together oats, almonds, sunflower seeds and flax seeds and divide between bowls.
3. Top with a good dollop of yoghurt and serve.

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Each and every year as ANZAC Day approaches, we bake Anzac Biscuits. Not just because they are delicious and easy to make but because it is also a way to remember the courageous Australians that served and gave their their lives for their (and our) country.

I don’t know where I acquired this easy Anzac Biscuits recipe as I have been making them for years but I do know you won’t be disappointed. Regardless if you like them crunchy or soft this recipe has you covered.

Easy Anzac Biscuits Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup Rolled Oats

1 cup Sugar

1 cup Plain Flour

3/4 cup Desiccated Coconut

125g Butter

2 tbs Golden Syrup

1/2 tsp Bi-Carb

1 tbs Boiling Water

Method

1. Combine dry ingredients (excluding bi-carb).

2. Melt butter and golden syrup over gentle heat.

3. Mix bi-carb with boiling water and add to the butter mix.

4. Stir butter mix into dry ingredients.

5. Place tablespoon sized balls of mixture onto lightly greased tray (allow room for spreading)

6. Bake in oven at 180°c. For soft chewy biscuits cook for 8-9 minutes. If you prefer them crunchy cook for 15 minutes.

7. Loosen while warm and then cool on cooling rack.

Mixture makes approx. 35 Anzac Biscuits.

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Have you been looking for a quick and easy sausage rolls recipe? Well look no further because this is the last sausage rolls recipe you will ever want or need. It is perfect for party food, dinner, lunch and basically any time you feel like a snack. This quick and easy sausage rolls recipe results in delicious flaky pastry and a mouthful of flavour that will leave you wanting more.

 Easy Sausage Rolls Recipe

Ingredients:
2.5x sheets puff pastry
10x chevaps (skinless sausages)
Tomato paste (I use one with herbs in it)
1x egg

Method

1. Cut pastry into 4 even squares.
2. Add small line of tomato paste across the top of each square.
3. Place chevaps  on top of tomato paste.
4. Roll the pastry.
5. Use fork to seal pastry and roll over so seal is on bottom (to avoid pastry unrolling)
6. Brush with egg.
7. Bake at 180°c for approx. 30 minutes.

Serve with mash and sauce. ENJOY!

These are so delicious and leftovers are perfect for school/work lunches.

Click for more beef recipes or if you are looking for pies, the chicken and mushroom and chunky steak recipes can not be beaten.

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A few days ago I shared a delicious Christmas Cookies recipe and D.I.Y gift ideas that make perfect Christmas gifts for teachers, neighbours, etc. Together with McCormick we are getting festive and sharing another gift idea and recipe along with a fantastic giveaway for All Mum Said fans. This one is perfect for not only adults but the kids too.

My kids love getting involved with cooking and we encourage them to try new things, invent flavours by mixing and matching herbs/spices and food. The kitchen is a place for creativity and vision. Which is why the idea below from McCormick is perfect!

Santa’s Festive Fairy Dust

This is a wonderful idea for the kids to get involved and get creative. They can create their very own magical fairy dust for Santa’s Christmas Cookies or make some fairy dust for their teachers. Simply add a teaspoon of four of your favourite spices into the bag, then follow this recipe. If making these as gifts just add a tag with the recipe on the back.

Santa’s Christmas Cookies

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 12 minutes
Makes: 42 cookies

Ingredients:
1 cup butter, chopped
1 cup caster sugar
1x 60g egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups plain flour
1 tbsp McCormick Festive Fairy Dust mix
1/2 tsp ground salt

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180°c. Line baking trays with baking paper.
2. Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Gradually beat in flour, fairy dust mix and salt until well mixed.
3. Roll dough into 1/2 tbsp balls and place on prepared trays. Flatten with a fork.
4. Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool Christmas cookies on baking tray and remove when cool. Store in airtight container.

*Christmas cookies recipe courtesy of McCormick. You can see more of the McCormick holiday cooking recipes here.

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I love Christmas time. Not only for the magic and tinsel but also the food. The warm aromatic spice-filled food. Actually just make that all food. Today I’m sharing with you a very quick and simple recipe for festive cookies that make the perfect gift for teachers, neighbours, plates of food for class parties, etc. They taste like what I imagine Christmas would if it had a flavour. Each bite is full of texture, warm spice and deliciousness.

Christmas Cookies recipe

INGREDIENTS
1 1/3  cup plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup oats
3/4 cup chocolate buttons/smarties (we used red and green)
3/4 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tbsp McCormick ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp McCormick ground Nutmeg
½ tsp McCormick ground All Spice
1 egg
1/2 cup melted butter
1 tsp vanilla extract

METHOD – Standard Cookies
1. Pour all dry ingredients into a bowl.
2. Mix egg, butter and vanilla extract into dry ingredients.
3. Use spatula or large spoon to work it all together.
4. Roll cookie dough into table spoon size balls, place on baking tray (lined with baking paper) and bake at 180°c for approx. 10 minutes or until golden. If you want crunchy cookies leave for an extra 4-5 minutes.
5. Let cool for a few minutes before moving them to cooling rack.

METHOD – Mini Muffin Cookies
1. Follow steps 1-3 as shown above.
2. Spray/grease mini muffin tray.
3. Roll balls to approx. 1/2 teaspoon size and add to mini muffin tray. Bake at 180°c for approx. 7-8 minutes or until golden.
4. Let cool for a few minutes before moving them to cooling rack.

Gift Ideas

Cookies In a Jar
1. Layer all the dry ingredients in a jar.
2. Put some Christmas ribbon around it.
3. Add cooking method including wet ingredients for the gift recipient.

Method for tag: Pour dry cookie mixture from the jar into a bowl. Mix 1 egg, 1/2 cup melted butter and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract into dry ingredients. Use back of large spoon to work it all together. Roll cookie dough into tablespoon size balls, place on baking paper lined trays and bake in preheated oven 180°c for about 10 minutes or until golden. Makes 24 cookies.

*This recipe is thanks to McCormick.

Wrapped
1. Cut a piece of baking paper large enough to fit a few cookies in.
2. Pull the baking paper up around the cookies and secure with some Christmas ribbon.

These are great gift ideas as they are cheap, easy to make and delicious!

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I am always trying new recipes that give old ideas and ingredients new life. If you have the same old meals on the menu every week you become bored so it’s always nice to have something exciting and different. When you hear the ingredient sausages you instantly think of bangers and mash or a sausage sizzle and while these are delicious comfort foods, this chipolata sausage cassoulet recipe with parmesan cheese garlic bread is to die for!

 Chipolata Sausage Cassoulet recipe

Ingredients

500g chipolata sausages (can be pork, beef, lamb)
4x bacon rashers, sliced
1x brown onion, sliced
1x tbs crushed garlic
1x tsp finely chopped parsley and/or rosemary
1x 400g can cannelloni beans
1x 400g can diced tomatoes

Instructions

1. Halve sausages on diagonal. Brown them in pan.
2. Add sliced onion, garlic, herbs. Mix through and fry until sausages are almost cooked through.
3. Add cannelloni beans, tin tomatoes and 1/4 cup of water. Mix through salt, pepper and 1 tsp of sugar. *Sugar stops tomato going bitter during the cooking process.
4. Reduce liquid on simmer heat.

Parmesan cheese garlic bread

Ingredients:

Ciabatta loaf, sliced
Butter
Garlic, crushed
Parmesan cheese, shaved
Parsley, finely chopped

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180°C
2. Mix butter, garlic and parsley together.
3. Brush one side of ciabatta bread slice with butter mix and top with parmesan cheese.
4. Put in oven until cheese is browned and crunchy.

ENJOY!

If you want to find more inspiration and meal ideas check out the recipes page. You will also find snacks, treats, cakes and breakfast recipes that will be a huge hit with the family over and over again. If you try any of the recipes you find on All Mum Said I’d love you to pop back over and leave your feedback on the post.

What is your favourite sausage meal? Do you enjoy sausage stews like this one?

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I think it is pretty safe to say that every kid will soon be nuts for Turtles – those 4 rad buddies, you know the ones. With all their quirks they are the perfect theme for some great pizza ideas! Which is perfect timing as it’s school holidays and ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Old Friends, New Enemies’ is out now on DVD. As we all know the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles love nothing more than a good pizza – it is after all where they get their power! You can join in the fun with these easy pizza recipes for kids, using inspiration from their favourite TMNT character!

 TMNT Pizzas

Michelangelo pizza

Michelangelo is the carefree ninja turtle, who loves to have fun!
Make sure your pizza uses a lot of different coloured ingredients including tomatoes, pineapple, capsicum and ham. Make sure you spread all of the ingredients around- have fun with it!

Leonardo pizza

Leonardo is the leader of the turtles, he displays lots of courage and shows the others who’s boss! Make sure your pizza is even and neat- just like Leonardo would like it! Use great ingredients like ham and salami to make you big and strong like him!

Raphael pizza

Raphael is the mischievous ninja turtle, who is always up to something cheeky!
Mix a bunch of ingredients that don’t usually go together, like lollies and chocolate, then you’ll be a mischief maker just like him!

Donatello pizza

Donatello is a scientist, and engineer, and he loves things to be in order!
Make sure your pizza has the same number of each ingredient, and arrange them in shapes!

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If you enjoy delicious homemade tender steak pie than you will want to print this recipe out to try later! It is my own personal recipe that I whipped up one day when we had a whole lot of nothing left in the fridge. I can vouch this will become a favourite in your home once you’ve made it as it is simple, budget friendly and very tasty.

Homemade chunky steak pie

Ingredients:
1x onion – diced
2kg blade steak – diced
4x bacon rashers
2x tablespoons crushed garlic
small amount of oil – to fry off ingredients above
200ml condensed tomato soup
600ml brown onion gravy (I used gravox)
Puff pastry

Instructions:
1. Fry off onion, garlic and bacon.
2. Add chopped steak and brown.
3. Turn heat to low and add gravy and tomato soup.
4. Cook/braise until meat is tender (a few hours usually).
5. Grease oven-proof dish/pie pan and place pastry inside.
6. Stab pastry with fork a few times (prevents pastry puffing too much while cooking) and then add meat filling.
7. Place pastry on top as lid. Fold corners together and brush with egg.
8. Cook in oven at 180°c until pastry is puffed and golden.

ENJOY your delicious home-made steak pie! 

If you want to see more recipes that I have shared on the blog check here or look in the food tab on the home page to search specific main ingredients. Make sure you come back and leave a comment telling me what you thought.

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A favourite weekend breakfast for both kids and adults in our home is our Bread Pudding Pancakes. I love this recipe because you can easily add and alter the ingredients to suit your personal tastes, enjoy it at any time of the day and the kids love helping to make it!!

Bread Pudding Pancakes

Ingredients:
12x slices of white bread (sliced into 2cm squares)
2 ¾ cups milk
3 eggs
1 ¼ cups self-raising flour (sifted)
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
2 tablespoons butter

Instructions:
1. Slice bread into 2cm squares.
2. Soak bread in the milk for approx. 10 minutes (until it softens).
3. In a small bowl mix flour, sugar, salt. You can do this while you are waiting for the bread to soak.
4. Gently fold the flour mixture into the bread. Add eggs and vegetable oil.
5. Gently mix.
6. Melt butter into pan and cook batter. (I used approx. 1/3 cup per pancake).
7. Cook for 3 minutes each side on medium heat or until cooked through. They will resemble a moist pudding inside so don’t overcook.
8. Serve as desired – I serve my bread pudding pancakes with homemade butterscotch sauce and ice cream but you can top with jam or custard for kids lunches.

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I love this bacon and cheese strata recipe because you can easily add and alter the ingredients to suit your personal tastes and the kids love helping to make it!!

Bacon and Cheese Strata

The kids can do most of this by themselves with just supervision and some directions.

Ingredients:

½ cup milk

½ cup cream

6 slices of bread

1 cup of grated cheese (I use mozzarella)

4 bacon rashors

8 eggs

Shallots

Salt and Pepper

*Additional/alternative ingredients can include: mushrooms, tomato, spinach, other vegetables, etc.

 Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 180°^C.
2. Grease tray/muffin tins (we use tray at home and muffin tins for school lunches)
3. Crack eggs into bowl. Add milk, cream, salt and pepper. Whisk together.
4. Cut shallots and slice bacon into strips. Add to egg mix.

1. Tear bread into pieces.
2. Add bread and cheese to mix. Soak the bread in the egg.
3. Pour mix into tray/muffin tins and add a sprinkle of cheese over the top.

1. Bake for approx. 30 minutes or until egg is cooked. *Every oven is different to please adjust accordingly.
2. Sit strata for 5 minutes and then enjoy!!

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