Sunday brunch

FRESH from the oven Saxon Hot Cross Buns from 3RRR were a great success - a nice and chewy texture with the cranberries and orange peel giving the buns a lovely fragrance.

Best enjoyed fresh from the oven or toasted

However, Sunday brunch is not just about buns at the Jan Juc Surf Shack.

No sireee.

The preferred brunch menu during autumn can range from rolled oats porridge with some blueberries, Greek yogurt and passion fruit - low cost high taste - through to pancakes with lemons from the neighbours and sugar, or sourdough toast with Darryl's Dry Roasted Peanut Butter which it leaves the others which are way too oily in it's wake like steeplechaser Moss Trooper racing against the donkeys. 

Another favourite is poached eggs from the gals on sourdough with fresh spinach and corriander.

Hot fresh coffee is not optional, as are the Sunday papers and back issues of the New Yorker.

Meanwhile, the feather riot are served left-over pancakes or toast, before allowed out to chase insects.

Any leftover buns will be toasted by the fire and eaten later.

Cranberry Hot Cross Buns

HOT cross buns are on my mind and in my tastebuds this weekend.

So it's time to haul down the blank books where I have glued recipes torn from magazines,newspapers or downloaded and decide which yeast-based buns to make on Good Friday tomorrow.

One recipe which is a delight to bake and eat are Susie's Buns (scroll down to the second recipe under chick chick sandwiches).

I first heard them mentioned on the 3RRR Breakfaster's program a few years ago and I've made them each year since as they are sensational! Easy to make and yummy to eat and everyone seems to come back for seconds.

The cranberries add a different take on the usual spices and I like to use a little lemon zest along with the orange.

While the recipe says you can freeze leftover buns, they have always been consumed in my home within a couple of hours of coming out of the oven.
This is one time the chooks won't be getting to eat the leftovers.

Dirty Deeds

SUNDAY afternoons at 1pm, the wireless is hanging from a nail under the deck and I'm listening to 3RRR's stalwart and always fascinating gardening show, Dirty Deeds.

Gidget and the father riot gals are passionate 3RRR subscribers

From the mundane plant to the exotic, with the advice always practical, this wonderful gardening show is delivered with a healthy dose of humour by the knowledgeable, interesting and passionate presenters.

The moment you hear the ACDC opening chords, you know you are in for 60 minutes of quality green thumb radio.

Even the father riot love the show, so much u=in fact they are passionate subscribers and have their own membership card and a 3RRR sticker on their chook shack.

So do yourself a favour, and got to 102.7 FM every Sunday 1pm AEST.

Your ears,chooks and garden will thank you.