Yes, due to the high number of people having trouble with commenting I changed the layout. I dearly loved my old layout but I understand the frustration of not being able to comment. :)

Please let me know if you have any problems with this layout and I will endevour to fix it.

I won’t go on and flesh it out until I am sure that it is ok for commenting, so if you could do a test for me and see if it works, that would be great.

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In other news, I finally discovered the secret to perfect pork crackling! I cooked a pork roast today and thanks to my new cookbook I found that you have to set the oven to 250 degrees, rub salt and oil in the deeply scored pork flesh, cook it for 30 minutes and then reduce the temperature to 180 degrees. It worked!! And it got so smokey in our house the fire alarms started to go off!! haha. Yasu had to run around and open the windows haha.

I also made homemade apple sauce to go with the pork crackling and boy was it yum!!! I can’t believe how good it tastes. Luckily I took a picture of both for you, my darling readers :)


That pork crackle was so crunchy and melted in our mouths! It was only a small pork roast, just enough for the 2 of us, and I cut the crackle off and put it on the plate (the photo).

My MIL always asks to have a pork roast when she comes to Aus (she hasn’t been here yet but she wants to), so now I can tell her with confidence YES I can cook it for you when you come :)))