Apricot Bliss Balls

With  6 weeks of School Holidays just around the corner, it's time to look for done healthy snacks for the kids. Ideally something they can help with. This is like edible play dough. It's made in about 2 minutes and then you can get the kids to make them into animals, cars, sporting goods or even fake food items. No cooking involved and they are healthy, packed with fibre and nutrition, gluten free, vegan and no added preservatives, artificial colours or refined sugar. They taste yummy and aren't full of sugar like the store bought ones.

We hope you give them a try, there's only 5 ingredients, no cooking, great for picnics lunch boxes and mid afternoon snacks.

http://YouTube.be/alRjffz8uGo

Vegan Cheese Video Recipe, another cheekyricho Thermo Cooker Idea.

Some time ago, like about a year, where did that time go. I posted a Vegan Mushroom Soup Video Recipe on our cheekyricho Youtube Channel, since then I have had numerous requests for the decorative little Home Made Edible Vegan Cheese Spoons I served it with.  The wait is over. Today we posted the recipe and you can view it here https://youtu.be/Aavg1uc1J8

This Vegan cheese can be used in cooking, salads, pasta, pizza dishes and he grills to a gooey warm texture on Sandwich melts.

We have an ever expanding Vegan and Vegetarian Array of recipes on our respective Cheekyricho Youtube Playlists. There is something there for everyone and you may even surprise your friends to know your latest creation is Animal Product free. We aren't Vegan but we can appreciate the need to find nice tasty Vegan recipes that the whole family can enjoy.

We are adding to our recipe repertoire very regularly and there really is something there for everyone. We do hope you check it out and keep those requests coming, it helps us to know what you want us to share. If we can get the ingredients we will endeavour to make it for you.

INGREDIENTS for Cheekyricho Vegan Cheese.

400g soy milk ( we have a recipe for that on our channel too)

100g raw cashews

100g raw almonds

150g boiling water

20g apple cider vinegar

100g miso paste

30g cheekyricho concentrated vegetable stock (another of our recipe videos)

2 Tablespoons Nutritional Yeast (available from health for shops and imparts a cheesy flavour)

2 Tablespoons AgarAgar (a Vegan gelatine substitute made from seaweed)

20g Chia Oil (any mild flavoured vegetable oil will do)

400g soy milk

100g raw cashews

100g raw almonds

20g apple cider vinegar

100g miso paste

2 Tablespoons Nutritional Yeast

2 tablespoons AgarAgar

30g Vegetable Stock Concentrate400g soy milk

100g raw cashews

100g raw almonds

20g apple cider vinegar

100g miso paste

2 Tablespoons Nutritional Yeast

2 tablespoons AgarAgar

30g Vegetable Stock Concentrate

Cheekyricho Cook4Me one Pot Kransky HotPot

Our feet have hardly touched the ground since our return home. We attended an engagement party weekend. Caught up with relatives. Collected our darling fur friends from their doting grandmother. Had a few Medical appointments to attend to. 

Built our mega carport and caught up with the necessary home maintenance required when one is absent from their country for a fortnight. The spiders seemed to have sensed our absence and have Decided to take up residence. The neighbours all around have reported numerous snake encounters but the biggest news of all according to Richo is the crabs are ON and the fish are biting!! All else pales into insignificance. 

As we have been so busy outside I have been making meals that are quick, easy, nutritious and tasty. A few one pot meals plus more experiments with my new pasta maker.

 This recipe for a One Pot Kransky HotPot cooked in the Tefal Cook4me was a real hit. The recipe idea was suggested to us by Frank, one of our viewers, it is delicious. So easy to make really tasty and fantastic comfort food. You can check out the easy recipe at https://youtu.be/wgw9Guu8g8U

Just what you need after you've been scurrying around on ladders building a very tall car cover for the motorhome. We have a double garage but Richo's Ute is too long for it and the Merc. Is too tall for it, wanting to protect these oversized vehicles from the elements proved to be a bit of a challenge. We opted for a portable shed which is permanently erected. To provide shelter for the cars and when we want to work outside out of the weather we have a large open space to built stuff. The plumber was coming yesterday to level the driveway into it and prepare the site for the new rainwater tank to collect water from

It's roof and provide free water when required.  The plumber didn't turn up so we have these 2 huge loads in sandstone rubble in the yard waiting to be tamped down for a driveway.

We are subject to strict water restrictions occasionally and watering the vege garden, washing the car or flushing out the boat motor and cleaning the boat after the day at sea is difficult during these dry spells. Our local council offers a  cash rebate as incentive to install a tank to alleviate the pressure on the town water supplies during times of drought. We thought we'd take advantage of the rebate offered plus it solves the storm water runoff issue from the new car shed.  I can't wait to have the whole system up and running.

We will be gearing up for our Christmas cooking very shortly so I have some lovely festive ideas in store for our Cheekyricho YouTube viewers. Hope you stick around for those, we like to share new, innovative and unusual Ideas to make your Christmas more fun and hassle free. Whilst we adore cooking and eating it's great to have a stock of Christmas goodies made ahead of time for unexpected guests that inevitably drop in around this time of year. We have an extensive Christmas Recipe Idea Playlist  already on our channel but this year we plan to expand it for your entertainment and joy.