Recipe of the week

I love Indian food. Its one of my most favourite cuisines to eat. Tonight's meal is a simple yet tasty Tandoori Chicken skewers with raita and wholemeal wraps.

Tandoori chicken skewers with raita

Equipment:  

You will need 12 pre-soaked skewers

Ingredients: (serves 4)

• 1/3 cup tandoori paste
• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• 1/3 cup thick, plain yogurt
• 900g chicken breast fillets, trimmed, cut into 2cm pieces
• olive oil cooking spray
• naan bread and mango chutney, to serve

Raita

• 1 cup thick, plain yogurt
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 Lebanese cucumber, grated
• 1/4 cup mint leaves, finely chopped

Recipe kindly taken from: Taste

I'm adding shaved lettuce and diced tomatoes into our wholemeal wraps, (which we are using instead of naan bread), as a point of difference and to add a summer "salad" feel to our meal!

What are you having for dinner tonight? 

RSPCA QLD is calling for donations...

I'm haunted by the images coming out of flood ravaged QLD. The devastation will be felt for a long while to come.

Please spare a thought and some cash if you can afford it to help the beautiful domestic pets, livestock and wildlife that too are suffering.

RSPCA QLD is calling fordonations:

• $2000 can rent a helicopter to support rescue efforts.
• $1500 can rent a semi trailer to transport feed and animals through affected areas.
• $1000 can purchase a large animal rescue sling.
• $500 can purchase a field medication kit.
• $300 can help to purchase equipment to rescue, transport and house wildlife stranded in the floods.
• $250 can purchase a domestic animal transport crate.
• $150 can help to get a rehabilitation kit to a carer to assist wildlife who have lost their homes.
• $100 can help with Veterinary Treatments for multiple animals.
• $70 can help with equipment to assist with rescue efforts.
• $60 can provide special dietary requirements, a pouch or a perch for wildlife.
• $50 can purchase a pet care pack for stranded domestic pets.
• $40 can buy a bale of hay to feed stranded livestock.
• $25 can buy a pet food pack for stranded domestic pets

You can choose to donate in a way that suits you best. Post, Phone or Online.

To post your donation, send a cheque or money order (payable to RSPCA Queensland Inc) to: RSPCA Queensland Inc, PO Box 6177, Fairfield Gardens Qld 4103, Australia.

Telephone our donation line on (07) 3426 9972 -- have your credit card details ready! US or Canadian residents can call tollfree on 1866 539 6589.

Direct Debit, please call our donation line on (07) 3426 9972 for RSPCA Queensland Inc account details. Please indicate "Flood Appeal" when depositing. 

(respectively lifted from the RSPCA NSW blog)

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Disappointed is an understatement

He didn't come to our first IVF appointment!

Tears.....

Wishing upon a star..

Sometimes I wish that things were so different....

I love my husband and we have a very very good life, barely ever wanting for anything. In fact at times I think we are able to buy what we want, when we want it, way too easily. So when it comes to something that's not materialistic.. like a baby, which I WANT desperately, it has thrown a spanner in the works being so hard to conceive our second child. 

There is nothing on this earth that I enjoy doing more than spending hours playing make believe or dress ups with my little girl, or even reading her favourite book 27 times because it makes her giggle and smile. 

Then I watch her father with his short fuse and hot temper get frustrated at all the "daddy" demands for attention and I wonder if I really did pick the right man for the job? Recently he seems preoccupied with relaxing on the couch after his stressful week and would rather immerse himself in xBox games and crime shows or out on boys nights, than running around the house with his beautiful daughter. 

We have being trying to conceive now for over a year, with no luck. Tomorrow we have our first IVF consultation and so I'm worried that he doesn't want this to work either! Why do I feel this way? Because he has been making excuses to not complete some of the initial and very vital paperwork which has to be done and approved before we can begin.

Well finally we have the signed and witness documents.. Yippee!!

Now if only they didn't take 10 days to be processed we could get the ball rolling a hell of a lot sooner.... 

Stay turned for updates on our progress...